Telecompetitor

Alviso, CA — March 10, 2010 — Minerva Networks, the leading provider of open and IPTV delivery platforms, announced today that Pioneer Telephone, the fourth largest telephone cooperative in the United States, has successfully completed the migration from a legacy third-party system to the Company’s platform. Minerva’s iTVManager is a comprehensive software solution for the delivery of next-generation IPconnected television services, ...

An administrative law judge in Illinois has written in opposition of the proposed sale of Verizon local exchange assets to Frontier. The Illinois Verizon access lines in question amount to 600k of the total 4.8 million access lines in ...

Verizon and Frontier have moved closer towards completing the sale and purchase of Verizon's local wireline operations in 14 states.  The approval of the Oregon Public Utility Commission brings to six the number of state PUCs/PSCs who ...

Small telcos say they are losing substantial access revenues to voice over IP providers, a topic we explored in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. Often the same small telcos say they are ...

Nation’s fifth-largest carrier aggressively deploying ubiquitous Ethernet Business Services in-region and in competitive markets RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hatteras Networks, the global leader in multi-service Ethernet solutions for enterprise access services and next-generation mobile backhaul, announced today that Windstream Corporation (Nasdaq: WIN), the fifth-largest carrier in the United States, has standardized upon and deployed a Hatteras Networks solution for Ethernet service ...

Nation’s Largest Cooperative Deploys Calix Portfolio of Fiber Access Solutions to Support Demand for High-Bandwidth Services PETALUMA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Calix today announced that Horry Telephone Cooperative (HTC) (Conway, S.C.) has chosen the Calix Unified Access Infrastructure to deliver a variety of fiber services and applications in its network. The largest cooperative and the 18th largest Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) in the ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 23, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ADC (NASDAQ: ADCT) (www.adc.com), a leading supplier of infrastructure solutions for fiber deployments, announced today that Western Iowa Networks (WIN), an independent telephone company providing broadband services to communities in western and southwestern Iowa, has selected ADC's equipment to overbuild the city of Carroll, Iowa with Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH). The company's competitive local exchange ...

Telco revenue challenges are not all about losing lines to VOIP, cable companies and wireless. Increasingly, the telcos also lose when the people who place calls to their customers are using one of these non-traditional methods. This is a particular concern to small, often rural telcos that rely most ...

Company will provide Internet, Data, and Video Conferencing to Schools and Libraries in 12 Minnesota Counties MANKATO, Minn., Feb 22, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- HickoryTech Corporation (Nasdaq: HTCO) today announced it has been awarded a three-year contract to provide Internet, data, VoIP and video conferencing services to 69 schools and libraries within a distance-learning network spanning across a 12-county region in ...

Agreement With Zito Media Will Provide All-MPEG-4 Line-Up to 10 Cable Systems Across the United States SHERMAN OAKS, CA--(Marketwire - February 22, 2010) - Avail-TVN, the largest digital media services company in North America, today announced that Zito Media will become the first multi-system cable company in the United States to deploy its MPEG-4 linear video service across its footprint. ...