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…
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…
It is hard not to notice the flurry of service provider activity in 40G/100G optical networking lately, a trend that Infonetics Research believes is an “unstoppable” force.
In its new “40G/100G Wavelength Deployment Strategies: Global Service Provider …
As we noted yesterday ViaSat’s showing off a new $50, 12 Mbps downstream, 3 Mbps upstream satellite broadband service that the company will be selling through WildBlue, Dish and National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative ISPs. As we also noted yeste…
Just as the USDA’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and the Commerce Department tighten their grips on broadband stimulus funding awards–revoking $80 million in funding in Louisiana and ordering an investigation in North Florida–the RUS is making availa…
NBN Co. has made another step forward with the National Broadband Network (NBN) by developing a program to begin building out its network in every part of Australia.
Part of this construction will be conducted by Syntheo, a joint venture between Lend L…
This week we are releasing a new eBook, “Telco Backhaul Strategies: Wireline wholesale carriers feed off the wireless backhaul bonanza.” In this eBook, FierceTelecom examines the challenges and opportunities wireline operators face in delivering wholes…
Two non profits, the Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, are circulating a new study named Corporate Taxpayers & Corporate Tax Dodgers (pdf) which names and shames corporations that are dodging taxes. The study e…
Earlier this month the FCC unveiled their “Connect America” plan, aimed at shifting Universal Service Fund subsidies away from rural phone service and toward rural broadband expansion. The problem so far has been the government hasn’t truly addressed …
The Rural Utilities Service’s (RUS) decision to extend the deadline to complete broadband stimulus-related projects had the unfortunate effect of eating into Calix’s (NYSE: CALX) third quarter 2011 results.
Earlier this week, Rural Utilities Service (R…