BT (NYSE: BT) saw its revenue fall 5 percent to £4.77 billion ($7.55 billion) in fiscal Q3 2011 due to declines in its global services, retail and wholesale divisions, but its ongoing cost cutting effort drove up operating profit by 22 percent to…
Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR) is once again finding itself having to convince current FiOS TV customers that the service is here to stay. In a move to perhaps encourage Frontier’s FiOS TV customers from defecting to cable, the ILEC has unveiled a…
MTS Allstream (Toronto: MBT.TO) continued make good on its aggressive fiber buildout throughout 2011 and into 2012 as a way to attract more business customers.
In 2011, the service provider added 299 buildings to its network, including 75 in Q4, bringi…
How did the wireline industry perform in the fourth quarter of 2011?
Check in here throughout the third quarter earnings report season for a summary of reports from the wireline industry’s service providers and network equipment manufacturers. Each abb…
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has made it official that it’s going to extend its Prism IPTV service into the former Qwest territory with plans to bring it into one or two markets this year.
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Ewing revealed the ILEC’s plans during the 22…
Taipei’s city government is set on bringing its Fiber to the Home (FTTH) to 80 percent of the city’s homes by 2015, and to reach that goal it is going to leverage the city’s sewers as a way to connect the service to consumers.
Over the course of the ne…
For all of the promise that BT (NYSE: BT) and its competitive carrier customers believe they can bring with its Fiber to the X drive, the reality is that most consumers aren’t exactly signing up in droves.
A new report from Ofcom, UK’s telecom regulato…
Deal sizes: Undisclosed
Why are these deals relevant? TelePacific’s three summertime acquisitions were geared not just to help it grow in the currently trending data center and managed services space, but also to maintain competitiveness against the in…
Cablevision took a massive public relations beating four months ago after an FCC study showed that the company failed to provide the speeds they advertised 50% of the time. Since then we’d noted that Cablevision had been quietly bumping delivered speed…
In France, it’s clear that consumers love their broadband connection, with the country’s regulator Arcep reporting that over 340,000 users signed up for service in Q3 2011, reaching a total of 22.4 million.
From a year over year perspective, broadband …