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Wireline in the fourth quarter 2011

Published on January 24, 2012 By Don

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…

SureWest gives Kansas City business customers free DOCSIS 3.0 speed updates

Published on December 19, 2011 By Don

SureWest Communications (Nasdaq: SURW) is giving a free speed boost to its Kansas City commercial Internet customers that are served by its HFC-based cable network.
Made possible via its DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade, SureWest will be able to offer Internet packa…

Verizon officially launches its home monitoring service

Published on October 12, 2011 By Don

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has finally taken the covers off its long-awaited home monitoring and control service, making good on the initial trial plans and a connected home strategy it laid out during the Consumer Electronics Show last January.

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Verizon preps home monitoring service push

Published on October 3, 2011 By Don

Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) reportedly is preparing to announce a broader rollout of its home monitoring and control service that will be priced at $9.95 per month. Light Reading reports from the FTTH Council Conference 2011 in Orlando that th…

SureWest will soon join Russell 3000 Index

Published on June 15, 2011 By Don

SureWest Communications’ (Nasdaq: SURW) star continues to rise as the ILEC’s stock will soon join the U.S. Russell 3000 Index later this month. According to a preliminary list of additions posted on the Russell site last Friday, SureWest is slated to g…

SureWest COO Fred Arcuri to retire

Published on April 7, 2011 By Don

SureWest’s (Nasdaq: SURW) Chief Operating Officer Fred Arcuri is going to retire from the service provider after a 36-year career that he began as a telephone lineman for SureWest, which was then known as Roseville Telephone Company.
Taking over the CO…

Surewest: We’d Offer 100 Mbps ‘If Anyone Wanted To Buy It’ – CEO Notes Cost Gap Of Deploying New Fiber Vs. Copper Closing

Published on February 10, 2011 By Don

Sacramento-based SureWest Communications offers consumers a mix of fiber to the home service and ADSL2+, their footprint an interesting mish mash of legacy markets and freshly-acquired carriers like Kansas City-based Everest Broadband. Speaking at this…

SureWest boosts broadband in Q2 but telecom revenue continues slide

Published on July 30, 2010 By Don

SureWest Communications (Nasdaq: SURW) took advantage of its established broadband networks to continue reducing capital expenditures in the second quarter of 2010, a factor that president and CEO Steve Oldham cited in reporting a 7 percent year-over-year growth in its broadband segment. The carrier’s telecom segment did not fare so well, falling 17 percent compared [...]

Bill DeMuth hangs up his CTO shoes at SureWest

Published on June 1, 2010 By Don

Bill DeMuth, CTO of SureWest Communications (NasdaqGM: SURW) will retire from the company on June 30 after 34 years with the service provider once known as the Roseville Telephone Company. While Verizon may get all of the credit for pushing out Fiber to the Home (FTTH) via FiOS, when new chapters are added to telecom [...]