by Pivot
Month: July 2010
Proposed Legislation Offers Fresh Take on Universal Service Fund Reform
Bi-partisan legislation introduced this week aims to transition today’s voice-focused Universal Service (USF) fund to one focused on broadband. That may sound a lot like USF reform proposals in the Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband…
AT&T Wi-Fi Surging
Connections to AT&T’s Wi-Fi network soared to 68.1 million in the second quarter, up from 15.1 million a year ago and 30% from 1Q10, propelled by growth in Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones and handheld devices and the…
KeyOn Launches Rural WiMAX Network, Hopes for Many More
Rural wireless, satellite and VoIP service provider KeyOn is launching a rural WiMAX network in Pahrump, Nevada. The network makes use of Alvarion’s BreezeMax Extreme WiMAX gear in the 3.65 GHz spectrum band where KeyOn…
nTelos Selects Tellabs for Fiber, IPTV/Triple-Play Efforts
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…
HickoryTech Deploys Unified Communications Platform to School District
MANKATO, Minn., Jul 22, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — HickoryTech Corporation (Nasdaq: HTCO) today announced it has been awarded a five-year contract to provide SingleLink Unified Communications throughout Mankato Area Public Schools. HickoryTech will install, support…
Verizon Expands Wholesale Broadband Offerings
NEW YORK – July 21, 2010 – To support the marketing and branding strategies of its wholesale High Speed Internet (HSI) customers, Verizon Global Wholesale is expanding its portfolio of services to include two white-label, or non-branded,…
Alcatel-Lucent Moves Down Market With IPTV, Cinergy MetroNet is Launch Customer
Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) supplies IPTV infrastructure to some of the largest IPTV players in the world, including AT&T. They are now hoping to expand their reach with smaller service providers. They’ve announced the Integrated Solution for…
Wi-Fi Shipments Slowing Down?
Shipments of 802.11n products propelled a 4.8% year-to-year gain in the global WLAN (Wireless Local Area network) marketplace in Q1 2010, though they fell 9.4% on a quarterly basis, according to the latest research from…
The Coming Fight Over Broadband Reasonableness
Our Industry Insight series brings insight and analysis from industry thought leaders on important issues facing the telecom industry. This latest insight comes from industry veteran L. Marie Guillory, who provides analysis on the latest…
FCC Report Questions Broadband Deployment, Timeliness
Just two months after reversing a long-standing assertion about the competitiveness of the U.S. wireless market the Federal Communications Commission yesterday reversed a long-standing assertion about broadband services. A key finding of the FCC’s Sixth…
Ultraviolet is Latest Twist on TV Everywhere
Aiming to “create a viable, global digital marketplace” based on “open, licensable specifications,” the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) yesterday launched its UltraViolet brand and logo. A broad-based consortium with membership approaching 60, the DECE…
Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative Turns to Infinera for Stimulus Project
SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwire – July 20, 2010) – Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative (MBC) has deployed Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) for a federally-funded broadband stimulus network in southern Virginia to deliver the speed, flexibility, and cost-effective scalable bandwidth of…