Telecompetitor

TDS, the Madison, Wis. based ILEC, announced the expansion of FTTH service to 4,500 additional homes in its Mt. Juliet, Tenn. market, now passing 7,600 homes there. TDS also offers FTTH in a neighboring market of Farragut, Tenn. A triple play bundle, with an IPTV powered video ...

Voice-Over-IP and Powerful Internet Access Packages Bolster Business Success In Rough Economic Times NEW YORK – March 15, 2010 – At a time when small and medium-sized businesses look for every technological advantage to help them continue as the fundamental economic growth engine in the U.S., Verizon is providing support with three new voice-over-IP and Internet packages available through the Verizon ...

Having added a net 4.1 million new subscribers in 2009, the country's largest cable and telephone companies ended the year with nearly 71.8 million high-speed Internet subscribers, about 93% of the U.S. market, according to a Leichtman Research Group ...

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 ...

First Real Traffic Demonstration Using Native 100G Router Interfaces and All Standards-Based Transport Optics NEW YORK – March 8, 2010 –Verizon, Juniper Networks, NEC Corporation of America, and Finisar Corp. announced on Monday (March 8) the successful completion of the first real traffic 100 gigabits per second (100G) optical fiber transmission field trial applying standards-based optics end-to-end and using the latest ...

Improvements setting stage for more competition in wireless, digital TV and broadband TAMUNING, Guam – (Mar. 4, 2010) – GTA TeleGuam said Thursday it plans to invest about $10 million during 2010 on its integrated communications network in Guam to better position itself for intensifying competition against larger, entrenched competitive providers on the island. GTA TeleGuam plans to make substantial investments to ...

Serving eight traditional native communities and the petroleum industry on the North Slope of Alaska with next-generation services Boca Raton, FL, March 3, 2010 – Airspan Networks Inc., a leading provider of broadband wireless access networks, announced today that Arctic Slope Telephone Association Cooperative (ASTAC), an Alaskan telecommunications company, has purchased Airspan’s advanced technology WiMAX equipment through systems integrator Stutler Technologies ...

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 ...

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 ...