Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt hopes this week’s acquisition of tier 2 cable company NewWave Communications by investment firm GTCR will be “the first of many.” Telecompetitor spoke this week with Hundt, who headed up the FCC during the Clinton administration and is now an...Learn More

Windstream has been gradually transforming itself from a local phone company serving tier 2 and tier 3 markets to a nationwide carrier focused on business services. And according to Windstream CEO Jeff Gardner, the company’s optimal strategy in that market is to focus on customers...Learn More

Frontier has a new marketing campaign, centered around a “6 feet tall, 8 feet long and 2,000 pound” Buffalo named Frank. The tier 2 telco with extensive rural markets says the campaign will begin immediately and will include broadcast, print, digital and social media, billboards,...Learn More

Small wireless carriers could have easier access to something that until now has primarily been the domain of larger competitors as the result of an agreement announced this week between the Competitive Carriers Association and Exacaster. CCA’s tier 2 and tier 3 wireless carrier members...Learn More

PHILADELPHIA, PA — March 20, 2013 – Alteva (previously referred to as WVT Communications Group) (NYSE MKT: ALTV), the parent company of leading cloud communications pioneers, announces today that it is expanding its wholesale hosted Unified Communications offering to include optional Tier 1 & Tier...Learn More

As their traditional residential voice business dwindles, many Tier 2 (and Tier 3) telcos are aggressively pursuing the business and wholesale markets, as a couple of announcements today illustrate. CenturyLink launched a new ad campaign for the business market. And Windstream announced the nationwide expansion...Learn More

CHARLOTTE, NC – March 11, 2013 – DukeNet Communications, a leading regional fiber provider of high-bandwidth connectivity solutions for enterprise, data center and carrier businesses in the Southeast, announces today that it has completed a significant network expansion. Adding to its core network across Tier 1, 2...Learn More

TDS appears to be back into acquisition mode with the announcement today of their intent to buy Baja Broadband. Baja is a cable MSO offering triple play services in Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, and Utah. According to TDS, Baja Broadband passes 212,000 homes, with...Learn More

Carrier Ethernet traffic now exceeds the total volume of T-1, ATM and frame relay traffic, according to the Metro Ethernet Forum – and the MEF hopes to push that number even further by expanding the applications that Carrier Ethernet can support and expanding the pool...Learn More

Tier 2 cable service provider Cable One says it provides broadband service in 338 census blocks where an unnamed price cap carrier claims there is no broadband. The information was part of a filing made by the American Cable Association, which represents smaller U.S. cable...Learn More

STAMFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Frontier Communications (NASDAQ: FTR), the nation’s largest communications provider focused on rural America, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with TRG Customer Solutions to offer three Frontier Secure products: comprehensive computer security; cloud-based unlimited backup and sharing; and proactive identity...Learn More

Three tier 2 telcos – Cincinnati Bell, FairPoint Communications and Frontier Communications – have found a way to monetize some of their not-so-tangible assets. Through a deal with Crius Energy, they gain a cut of the money that end users pay for electricity. But they...Learn More