Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) thinks it would like to replicate the community Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network idea it’s implementing in Kansas City in a European country.
As reported by the Wall Street Journal, David Drummond, Google’s senior VP, said during …
According to the Wall Street Journal, Comcast is tinkering with an IP video delivery platform, allowing the cable company to deliver video to multiple devices while implementing more interactive content. The move mirrors are transition underway at Veri…
Amy Shatz at the Wall Street Journal takes a look at how AT&T took extra lengths to keep the T-Mobile deal a secret, knowing that making an already massive company larger while eliminating T-Mobile from the market is a very tough sell to regulators. Wh…
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Comcast is fighting back against advances made by both set top and telcoTV competitors with a new Internet video-integrated set top box. According to the report, Comcast is currently testing the device …
You’ll recall that companies with behavioral advertising ambitions like Phorm and NebuAD watched those ambitions go up in smoke here in the States and in the UK, after the companies struck covert deals with ISPs that not only didn’t inform users their …
For several years now Verizon Wireless executives have been hinting at the fact that they’d like a new usage-based wireless pricing model. While the company recently unveiled new pricing and caps as low as 150MB, the company is still hinting that we ha…
Things are tough all over for telecoms as the economic slump continues, but BT (NYSE: BT) saw some bright glimmers of hope in the first quarter of fiscal 2010 that ended June 30. While the company’s revenues decreased 4 percent year over year, a focus on tightening the operating budget and knocking down its net [...]
With only three days until Frontier (NYSE: FTR) officially takes over Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ) rural lines in 14 states, Fitch Ratings has upgraded the service provider’s rating. Fitch said it upgraded Frontier’s rating to BB+, the brink of investment-grade territory, because the deal enhances the service provider’s size and cash flow. While Fitch cautioned that [...]
Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) is wasting no time getting its network implementation in order by naming Alcatel-Lucent as one of its key network equipment suppliers. This deal comes only after NBN struck a multi-billion deal to leverage Australian incumbent Telstra’s wireline facilities. Following a nine-month battle between Telstra and the government, NBN came [...]
BT’s (NYSE: BT) top brass has reached out to the Communication Workers Union (CWA), a group that represents about half of its 128,000 of its workers, with a hope they can resolve its pay raise dispute with the union.
This latest development comes after…