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The latest recipient of broadband stimulus funding – the MidAtlantic Broadband Cooperative (MBC). MBC is a member owned cooperative that operates a fiber network in rural southwestern Virginia. MBC received $15 million in grants out of $20 million that were announced today for projects in ...

Bad news for Supercomm fans (if there are any left). The 2010 Supercomm has been cancelled. A very short press release came out today announcing such. There’s no indication whether the event will come back in 2011 or beyond. It’s not terribly surprising. Rumors have been ...

Google Voice is a voice application that provides a variety of features including call routing/forwarding, unified voicemail, and simultaneous ring, among others. Google Voice has 1.4 million subscribers and growing. Google is now turning their attention to the small and medium business (SMB) and enterprise ...

Frontier is attempting to significantly grow in size through an acquisition of Verizon rural territories. The transaction is meeting some opposition from fear that Frontier is not equipped to absorb the millions of access lines in question. Frontier ...

No large service provider, cable or telco, applied for the broadband stimulus program in round one, citing onerous rules and requirements. We may see a different approach in round two. Qwest may be eyeing the program. “The good news is ...

Verizon has partnered with Cellfire to offer digital coupons across its wireless and FiOS TV and Internet platforms. The Verizon Spend Smart program allows customers to download coupons electronically, eliminating the need for paper coupons. The program works with a ...

Comcast recently launched their version of TV Everywhere and branded it Xfinity. They took a lot of heat for that brand choice. Let’s just say it wasn’t universally accepted. How do you pronounce that thing anyway? In true ‘300 lb gorilla’ fashion, Comcast could obviously care less. ...

New research from Parks Associates suggests that the hype surrounding the threat of  Over-the-Top (OTT or Internet delivered video) video encouraging ‘cord cutting’ of subscription video services like cable TV, IPTV, and DBS are just that – hype. According to their “...

Comcast has reached a deal to acquire New Global Telecom (NGT), a Colorado based provider of business class VoIP services. The move follows a previous business focused CLEC acquisition of Cimco Communications by Comcast. In addition to offering VoIP ...