Telecompetitor

Verizon has taken a lot of heat regarding for its DSL broadband offerings in non-FiOS territories. Some argue that Verizon is ignoring these territories and may even try to sell them off, leaving them to focus on FiOS and 4G LTE as their broadband horses. Today, Verizon slightly cooled those arguments, at ...

Verizon and other large national telephone companies have been taking a real beating of late on their DSL offers, at least compared to what cable is doing with cable modems. Broadband adoption is slowing in general, but DSL for large carriers is experiencing negative growth. Verizon’s latest answer to this gloomy DSL ...

TR-069 is a standard developed by the Broadband Forum that allows the remote management and configuration of a broadband modem. It was once the domain of DSL modems. But developments like the recent one from Clear Access now extend the capability to cable ...

It’s pretty clear now that big telephone companies like AT&T and Verizon are positioning their DSL broadband product as a value play against their cable broadband competition. Case in point is AT&T’s latest DSL promotion (via BroadbandReports.com), which offers 3 Mb/s DSL for ...

DENVER, July 22, 2010 - Today, Qwest (NYSE: Q) is introducing the availability of the world’s first Heavy Duty™ Internet service. Qwest Heavy Duty Internet is the culmination of Qwest’s commitment to providing dependable, fiber-optic-fast Internet speeds, with security features and free wireless access at home and away. More than Fast - Powerful More than fast, Qwest’s Heavy Duty Internet ...

NEW YORK – July 21, 2010 - To support the marketing and branding strategies of its wholesale High Speed Internet (HSI) customers, Verizon Global Wholesale is expanding its portfolio of services to include two white-label, or non-branded, HSI options. Starting immediately, wholesale customers can offer Verizon's DSL-based services - Broadband Traffic Aggregation Service (BTAS) and InfoSpeed DSL Service - under the customers' own ...

AT&T limited its options when it decided not to go with FTTH for its IP triple play platform, U-verse. They chose VDSL instead, presumably to save cost over a more expensive FTTH build. There are valid arguments on both sides of the debate as to whether ...

PETALUMA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that the E7 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP) has been deployed by more than 100 communications service providers (CSPs) across North and Latin America and the Caribbean. Architected to address the emerging capacity and flexibility challenges of an “all-video world,” the E7 has found fertile ground among a wide variety of CSPs ...

Mammoth Networks, a facilities-based aggregator of fiber and data circuits, today announced that it has surpassed 21,000 DSLs on its network and now supports more than 160 Service Providers across the United States. These milestones were achieved five years after starting the business. Mammoth Networks is unique in that it interfaces with Qwest to provide ...

TAMUNING, Guam--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GTA TeleGuam has begun testing a new broadband access technology that can provide up to a ten-fold increase on the speed of its Spyder Internet access on Guam. GTA TeleGuam is testing very high-speed digital subscriber line 2, or VDSL2 for short, that is capable of transmitting data or Internet traffic at speeds exceeding 100 Megabits per second simultaneously ...