Oakland, CA — April 24, 2013 — Zhone Technologies, Inc (NASDAQ: ZHNE), a global leader in FTTx network access solutions, today announced it will assist with iTV-3′s new network expansion in Central Illinois, building off of two previous network expansions that used Zhone equipment. Zhone’s...
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The Verizon LTE in Rural America program has added another partner — KPU Telecommunications of Ketchikan, Alaska. KPU is a municipally owned FTTH triple play provider in southeastern Alaska, serving 6,000 access lines. KPU joins 18 or so other rural wireless carriers in Verizon’s Rural...
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 8, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Windstream (Nasdaq:WIN) announced today that the General Services Administration (GSA) of the U.S. Federal Government has awarded it a contract to provide voice, Internet and data services. The contract represents multi-million dollar potential revenue annually, covering...
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Triple and quad-play service bundles (cable, Internet, home phone, cell phone) afford consumers a means of lessening the impact rising telecom services costs have on their pocketbooks, according to the latest subscriber survey on telecom providers from the Consumer Reports National Research Center. “Our report...
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If you were starting a broadband carrier from scratch today, would you include traditional home phone service as a part of your bundle? If you are Google, apparently not. They have decided not to include voice service as a part of their Google Fiber service...
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Chattanooga based EPB Fiber was one of the first (if not the first) broadband carriers in the U.S to offer a 1 Gbps FTTP network, well ahead of Google, which is trying to do the same in Kansas City. You can now add Bristol, Tennessee...
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PHILADELPHIA, PA - September 11, 2012 — Comcast, one of the nation’s leading providers of entertainment, information and communications products and services, announced today the nationwide rollout of Xfinity® Triple Play MultiLatino, which combines MultiLatino TV video programming and services, the fastest high-speed Internet service...
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WASHINGTON, June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) recently won a $233 million task order to provide primary managed data networking services over the next five years to the Social Security Administration (SSA) under the Networx Universal contract. The General Services Administration’s Networx...
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Verizon Wireless and Cox apparently aren’t intimidated by the opposition group that launched yesterday to protest Verizon’s co-marketing deals with Cox and other cable companies as well as the carrier’s plans to purchase spectrum from the cablecos. Less than 24 hours after the opposition group...
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Verizon FiOS showed strong across a wide range of multi-play service bundles including TV, Internet and Phone, according to the results of a Consumer Reports telecom services survey released today. Midwest regional cable service provider WOW did likewise. Verizon FiOS IPTV service rated higher than...
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Windstream has been somewhat on the sidelines with video, relative to their telco peers. Looks like that’s changing somewhat, with news today that Windstream will launch Merge, a new bundled video streaming offer. Rather than a standalone video streaming product, Merge is a bundled offer...
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NEW YORK – November 29, 2011 – Verizon continues to expand the borderless lifestyle for consumers, with the announcement of a new offer that makes a selection of live, FiOS TV channels available over the Xbox 360 Entertainment System. Through a collaboration between Verizon and...
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