by Pivot
Month: February 2014
AT&T Invests To Support AT&T Partner Exchange
Dallas, Texas, February 25, 2014 — AT&T today announced its investment to accelerate its work with solution providers through a $300 million commitment of resources over three years that began in 2013. The vast majority…
G.fast Standard Gets Set to Support Gigabit Broadband
By mid-2014 network operators should be conducting trials of broadband equipment that will provide customers with speeds as high as a gigabit per second without requiring the installation of fiber all the way to the…
Two More Small Carriers Make Ultra High-Speed Broadband Announcements
Ultra high-speed broadband is not just for giant companies like Google, AT&T and Time Warner Cable. Since late last week, two smaller network operators made announcements involving residential broadband speeds of 300 Mbps and higher.…
NPD Sees 46% Rise In Embedded Tablet Cellular Connections
U.S. tablet users made much greater use of embedded cellular connections in 2013 than they did in 2012, according to new market research from the NPD Group. 10.4 million tablets made use of embedded cellular…
Small Cell Forum Release Three Focuses on Urban Deployment
Looking to catalyze deployment of small cells in cities, the Small Cell Forum has launched “Release Three: Urban Foundations.” Laying out the business case for and market drivers of small cell deployment, the Barcelona-based industry…
Windstream Announces Workforce Reduction
Feb 21, 2014 — LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN) is reducing its workforce to increase operational efficiency as it continues to focus on becoming the premier enterprise communications and services provider. The company…
CenturyLink Launches CAF-Funded 40 Mbps Broadband In North Carolina
Feb 21, 2014 — WAKE FOREST, N.C. – As part of its ongoing commitment to its customers in Halifax and Northampton Counties, CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) is expanding its high-speed Internet (HSI) service to unserved…
Mobidia: U.S. LTE Subscribers Reach Nearly 100 Million
With the pace of commercial rollouts rising fast LTE is benefiting those mobile telecom providers who have deployed it, according to market research spanning 100 mobile operators and hundreds of thousands of Android smartphone users…
AT&T Offers LTE Roaming In 13 More Countries
Dallas, Texas, February 24, 2014 — At Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona, AT&T* announced today that it has launched 4G LTE data roaming in 13 more countries, remaining the only U.S. carrier to offer…
Netflix/ Comcast Deal Relies on Third-Party Data Centers for Interconnection
Comcast and Netflix confirmed yesterday that they have reached an interconnection agreement – and although the companies did not provide details, sources familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal that the agreement calls…
J.D. Power: Satisfaction with Wireless Purchase Experience Rises
Satisfaction among wireless customers who completed a sales transaction at non-carrier retail outlets improved last year, according to J.D. Power & Associates, driven higher by the perceived value of devices and pricing and promotional offerings…
Did Windstream’s Paetec Purchase Lead to $2.5 Million Rural Call Completion Settlement?
Windstream has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the U.S. Treasury to resolve an FCC investigation into the company’s rural call completion practices. In the rural call completion settlement released late yesterday, Windstream has agreed…