Bermuda’s incumbent service provider Bermuda Telephone Company (BTC) has launched its new PRISM fiber network.
As a multi-purpose network, BTC said it will have enough capacity to fulfill various consumer and business services, including voice, video, …
AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) are clearly two service providers making a migration away from the PSTN to all IP, but the move has to carefully take into account a number of key technical, business and operational issues.
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CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) reported that its first-quarter 2012 revenue declined 5.2 percent, to $423 million, from $484 million in Q1 2011, a factor it attributed to ongoing declines in its legacy voice business.
As has been the case in previous quarters…
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Verizon (NYSE: VZ) may once again strike the ire of broadband consumers with plans to stop offering “naked” or standalone DSL services (aka dry loop DSL), meaning that new users will have to buy a wireline POTS even if they don’t want it. Beginni…
As we noted yesterday, Verizon has decided to wind the clock back to 2005 and will no longer sell DSL services to new users without a landline. Worse perhaps, users on existing standalone DSL lines will be forced to add voice service (whether they want…
Verizon (NYSE: VZ), like its other large ILEC counterparts AT&T (NYSE: T) and CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) continues to see its core voice service revenue decline, but the state’s Board of Public Utilities in its New Jersey market are questioning their …
Now that the fourth quarter 2011 earnings season has wrapped up, FierceTelecom is taking a look at the performance of the top ILECs during the quarter. While it’s true that wireless service continues to eat away at wireline voice revenues, they are cle…
It’s a huge thing for UTOPIA to score a major national provider like DISH Network. First, let’s consider that DISH already has a lot of customers in UTOPIA areas. They could immediately start marketing both data and voice service to those subscribers. Given that they can cross-subsidize using revenues from other markets, using the MStar [...]
Consolidated Communications’ (Nasdaq: CNSL) success in selling business and wholesale revenue drove up the ILEC’s Q4 earnings 16.2 percent to $7.9 million, up from $6.8 million in Q4 2010. Adjusted net income remained flat at $8.2 million, or 28 cents …