Telecompetitor

Cable companies have been busy recently. They are moving with some element of precision in building a 'perfect competitive storm' of sorts. In so doing,  they are laying the ground work for some tough times ahead for their telco competitors, absent an effective response. Cable is leading the assault with ...

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced his ‘100 squared’ initiative at a speech delivered to the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) today. The ‘100 squared’ concept aims to deliver broadband capable of 100 Mbps to 100 million homes by 2020. The ...

Suddenlink, the St. Louis, Mo based cable MSO, is accelerating their DOCSIS 3.0 strategy. They doubled their D3 footprint in 2009 and now reach 23% of homes passed with the ultra fast broadband service. Suddenlink has approximately 1.3 million customers in Arkansas, California, Louisiana, ...

Cable companies see DOCSIS 3.0 (D3) as one of the main weapons in their competitive arsenal. D3 uses ‘channel bonding’ to dramatically increase broadband speeds (both downstream and upstream, but not symmetrically) offered over cable modem service. Cable companies are rolling out D3 products in ...

SUWANEE, Ga., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ARRIS ( ARRS) announced today that Sunflower Broadband, an MSO serving the state of Kansas, has deployed ARRIS Touchstone® WBM 750 wideband modem service to customers in Lawrence, Eudora and other rural Kansas communities. Sunflower Broadband plans to complete its DOCSIS 3.0 rollout to the remainder of its systems by the end of first ...

LAS VEGAS – Cox Communications-Las Vegas is unveiling the fastest non-fiber Internet speeds available in the state of Nevada during a news conference designed to publicly demonstrate the power and capability of Ultimate Internet, the company’s new 50 Mbps high-speed cable broadband service. The news conference will be held on Dec. 9 at noon inside the company’s recently opened Henderson ...

Mediacom has selected Waterloo, Iowa as its launch market for a new DOCSIS 3.0 (D3) powered 105 Mbps broadband service. "That will make it the fastest Internet service in North America," Lee Grassley, Mediacom's senior manager of government relations tells ...

Mediacom intends to launch DOCSIS 3.0, or wideband, broadband service in eleven markets by December.  Of the eleven markets, nine will have a 50 Mbps tier and two will offer a 100 Mbps tier. Mediacom announced the DOCSIS 3.0 roadmap on their November 6th ...

RCN Business Services to Offer Wideband Cable Modem Options to Small, Medium Sized Businesses Over Its Own Fiber-Rich Backbone HERNDON, VA, Nov 02, 2009 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI) announced today that RCN Business Services is expanding its data product suite by introducing wideband cable modem offerings through the rollout of DOCSIS 3.0 technology to the ...

New Wideband Speed Options Come to 83 Communities in 10 Counties LIVERMORE, Calif., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast, (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services, today announced it is launching next-generation DOCSIS 3.0 and making the leap from broadband to wideband in several areas of California, including Fresno, Merced, Modesto, Stockton, Tracy, Tulare, ...