The Metro Ethernet Forum’s Ethernet Interconnect Point (EIP) project gained momentum last week when Frontier, CenturyLink and competitive carrier TelePacific said they would participate in the rapid prototyping portion of the project. The EIP initiative aims to create interconnection points…
The FCC late last week moved a step closer to resolving the long-open issue of how much flexibility incumbent carriers should have in setting pricing for the special access circuits that they sell to other carriers and to enterprise customers….
Cable service providers have been making inroads into the large-business market for voice and data services over the course of the past two years, according to business consulting and research provider TNS. Incumbent telcos are most vulnerable and at risk…
A typical small rural telco gets less than half of its revenue from end users, according to financial data collected by the Telergee Alliance – a group of accounting firms that specialize in rural telecom. On average, small rural telcos…
Rural telecom consolidation continues with an announcement yesterday involving two incumbent rural Iowa carriers. Central Scott Telephone Company, a subsidiary of LICT Corporation, is purchasing Dixon Telephone Company. LICT expects to see synergies from combining the personnel of the two companies,…
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Marketwired – Aug 4, 2015 – Onvoy, LLC, a leading provider of wholesale telecommunication services, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Broadvox, LLC, a CLEC focused on providing wholesale VoIP…
The latest player to enter the gigabit arena is PocketiNet Communications – and the company isn’t quite like any other service provider that has launched gigabit service. The company operates in Tier 3 markets in the northwest, including its home…
Eastern Oregon Telecom (EOT) is a competitive provider based in Eastern Oregon, serving primarily small town and rural markets. EOT recently embarked on a gigabit fiber program, EOT Velocity Internet, which is building FTTP to select markets throughout their service…
The gigabit network trend accelerated substantially in 2014. I took a look back at Telecompetitor’s coverage (see list below) and was astonished how many new players this year entered the market or announced plans to do so. In addition, several…
CenturyLink has asked the FCC to allow it to conduct a TDM-to-IP transition trial in Las Vegas that would focus on VoIP interconnection and on the replacement of TDM-based business services with IP-based alternatives. The company has lined up two…
Princeton, NJ (March 11, 2014) – RCN, an industry-leading provider of high-speed Internet, digital TV and phone services announced today that it has substantially increased Internet upload speeds for most of its residential Internet customers as a free upgrade. RCN…
Princeton, NJ (March 4, 2014) – RCN, an industry-leading provider of high-speed Internet, digital TV, and phone services, is now providing customers with unlimited access to popular interactive TV apps that are accessible from the comfort of their couch. Now…
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