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Bermuda’s BTC debuts its new multi-purpose fiber network

Published on May 21, 2012 By Don

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, …

PSTN-to-IP migration must be done with care, say Verizon, AT&T

Published on May 15, 2012 By Don

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.

CenturyLink’s legacy services drag earnings down 5.2% amidst gains in broadband, business, IPTV

Published on May 10, 2012 By Don

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…

Broadband Bytes for 2012-04-21

Published on April 21, 2012 By Don

Layton, are you ready for some UTOPIA fiber? http://t.co/tSHcs5Xb # A fifth of adults don't use the Internet. http://t.co/FXud5WWz # An in-depth look at the legal arguments behind streaming OTA broadcasts. http://t.co/niQ6biy0 # iProvo officially goes back to the city. http://t.co/Q9JJBpqf # Cable overbuilders merge to survive. http://t.co/nZNnCyc7 # Is universal voice service about to [...]

Verizon to stop selling ‘dry loop’ DSL to consumers

Published on April 9, 2012 By Don

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…

Verizon Tries, Fails to Justify Forcing Landlines On DSL Users – It Will…Improve Your Experience…Yeah That’s It

Published on April 6, 2012 By Don

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…

New Jersey presses Verizon about wireline voice service issues, broadband commitment

Published on April 4, 2012 By Don

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 …

ILECs put lots of broadband, business and backhaul into their Q4 2011 diet

Published on March 19, 2012 By Don

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…

DISH Network on UTOPIA: What are the implications?

Published on March 8, 2012 By Don

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’ Q4 gets boost from business, broadband, wholesale revenue

Published on March 2, 2012 By Don

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 …