Telecompetitor

News today reveals that for the first time in history, wireless only households now outnumber wireline only households. This according to new data released by the National Center for Health Statistics, a program of the Center for Disease Control (CDC), which has been tracking wireless substitution for some time now. According to their findings, one in five homes (20%) in the U.S. has no ...

I moderated a panel today at the annual meeting of Associated Network Partners Inc. (ANPI), a Springfield, Illinois based aggregator of switched access and other telecom services. The panel focused on industry issues and trends and their implications for small independent telecom carriers. A provocative discussion point was offered by ANPI’s CEO, Dave Lewis, who suggested the independent telecom industry should take a hard look at ...

Nearly 30% of AT&T’s DSL growth in the last quarter was of the naked kind – meaning sans a traditional wireline. Half of those new naked DSL lines were sold as a part of a wireless bundle. Presumably, those 75K or so AT&T customers who opted for a mobile-DSL bundle also opted out of a traditional wireline. The details appear in this Telephony Online article. Goodbye ...