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Minneapolis (August 23, 2010) – The 30,000 residents of Salisbury, NC are about to get a major upgrade in their telecommunications options as a result of a city-driven Fiber To The Home (FTTH) deployment. The project, which has been branded Fibrant under the heading “Make Life Brilliant,” is getting an assist from  Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLFD) both in the field ...

Naperville, Ill. — What if your fiber footprint doubled overnight? Bigger service area, great. More capacity, terrific. But how do you control expenses and power consumption for the expanded network while rolling out new, in-demand services? For nTelos, this question isn’t hypothetical. That’s why the integrated communications provider turned to Tellabs for optical transport and high-speed data solutions that meet long-term ...

AT&T limited its options when it decided not to go with FTTH for its IP triple play platform, U-verse. They chose VDSL instead, presumably to save cost over a more expensive FTTH build. There are valid arguments on both sides of the debate as to whether ...

Windstream enhances Lifetime Price Guarantee with digital TV from DISH Network LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN) announced today the launch of an unprecedented triple play Lifetime Price Guarantee, adding a high-definition digital TV package from DISH Network to its existing offer of high-speed Internet and unlimited nationwide calling.  Windstream's Lifetime Price Guarantee provides customers with a locked-in, monthly rate ...

Service providers who currently compete with Bresnan Communications should take note -- Cablevision is coming. The Bethpage, New York based cable company announced the purchase of Bresnan Communications in a transaction valued at $1.36 billion. Bresnan is ...

AT&T has been tinkering with how to add wireless to the bundle of voice, video, and data for some time now. Examples include the Choice bundle, introduced in March, which allowed customers to choose a wireline or wireless option  for the voice portion of a triple ...

An interesting story unfolded in the Hudson Valley town of Rosendale, New York. A couple who subscribed to Verizon for telephone service and Time Warner Cable (TWC) for broadband found themselves the apparent victim of a ‘triple play slam.’ The concept of slamming has been around for a while. It’s historically associated ...

ATLANTA, GA - May 3, 2010 - Enhanced Telecommunications (d/b/a) ETI Software Solutions, Inc., (ETI) (www.etisoftware.com), announced the City of Salisbury, North Carolina's Fibrant will deploy its énconcert BSS/OSS software suite, supporting its cutting-edge communications technology, delivering IPTV and telephone and internet fiber-to-the-home services. ETI's énconcert is a robust triple-play, customer care, work order, billing and provisioning solution. It is ...

DirecTV and Alcatel-Lucent have partnered on an interesting project. They are delivering video over a closed IP network to the Shelter Creek multi-dwelling unit (MDU) complex in San Bruno, Calif. The offering, which combines DirecTV’s IPAdvantage platform and an Alcatel-Lucent VDSL2 ...

Regional bells and other telcos continued to lose ground to cable companies on the residential wireline and broadband fronts in 2009, with wireless substitution accounting for 60% of the loss in the former. Meanwhile, the relatively small number of 'TV cord cutters' in the US continues to grow--800 thousand now, ...