Officially on sale today, Samsung’s Galaxy S Aviator now brings fast 4G LTE surfing to U.S. Cellular subscribers.
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Bell Canada (NYSE: BCE) has turned on its “Bell Fibe” branded Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network, delivering a suite of triple play voice and video services throughout the Quebec City area.
Leveraging its CAD 225 million (USD 227 million) in the city, th…
Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer, which long ago branched out from its core business, announces an Android-based smartphone inspired by GT race cars.
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Colorado’s proposed telecom reform bill (SB-157) is already drawing criticism from CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL), the state’s largest telco.
CenturyLink, which established its presence in Colorado via its acquisition of Qwest last April, believes that the pr…
Colorado lawmakers are proposing a new measure that will lower broadband service costs for consumers who live in the rural segments of the state.
Under the new SB 12-157 bill, the legislature wants to “modernize” telecom laws that were put in place whe…
Sonic.net, a competitive broadband provider that prevailed against a strong headwind of incumbent telcos and cable operators, is now expanding Fiber to the Home (FTTH) plans in Sebastopol, Calif. to serve more customers.
With the first phase of their F…
Time Warner Cable initially took their time deploying faster DOCSIS 3.0 speeds, priced them well beyond what most sane people were willing to pay (often in upscale “Signature Home” packages), then complained that the services weren’t initially seeing q…
France took our discarded concept of local-loop-unbundling and implemented it successfully, with users in Paris now being able to get 100 Mbps fiber, VoIP service and a full television lineup for around $40. French ISP Iliad is also prepared to shake u…
You might recall that a little more than a year ago Verizon announced that they planned to start charging FiOS customers a $3.50 fee simply to pay your FiOS bill by credit card. Verizon ultimately backed off the idea (already implemented for landline u…
EATEL, a Gonzales, La.-based independent ILEC, is the latest wireline-centric service provider to craft a deal with a wireless operator to extend wireless services to its respective customer base.
Through this new wholesale agreement, EATEL will be abl…