by Pivot
Tag: FiOS
With Frontier 2Fast, Frontier Takes on Cable with Symmetrical Broadband Tiers
In today’s broadband wars, symmetrical broadband, or the same download and upload speeds, has been a weapon used by fiber based broadband providers over their cable competitors. Verizon has used it effectively with FiOS. You…
Jureller: Frontier Expects to Accept Broadband CAF II Funding
Frontier hopes to “avail ourselves” of broadband funding in phase two of the Connect America Fund program targeted for this year, said Frontier Chief Operating Officer John Jureller at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media &…
$10 Billion Frontier/ Verizon Deal Confirmed
Frontier late yesterday confirmed its plans to acquire Verizon lines in California, Texas and Florida for $10.5 billion– a move that will nearly double Frontier’s voice broadband and video lines and dramatically boost the number…
What’s at Stake in Expected $10 Billion Verizon-Frontier Deal
Verizon and Frontier reportedly are close to announcing a deal for Verizon to sell part of its landline business in California, Texas and Florida to Frontier. And as the industry awaits an official announcement, there…
Latest Verizon Netflix Bundle Includes HBO, Showtime, and 50 Mbps FiOS
Count Verizon in as the latest service provider to leverage the popularity of Netflix for their own gain. They are featuring Netflix in a new $60 month bundle. It’s quite the interesting relationship, considering the…
AT&T vs. Verizon Video Strategy: How Important is Linear Video?
The nation’s two largest telecom service providers AT&T and Verizon have considerably different views on consumer video opportunities, as illustrated today by comments made by AT&T Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson and Verizon…
Verizon FiOS Features Faster Wi-Fi with New Quantum Gateway
11.03.2014 — NEW YORK – With people increasingly depending on Wi-Fi for watching high-definition video, uploading photos and videos, working from home, video conferencing and more, the Wi-Fi router may be the most essential yet…
Verizon Upgrades FiOS Business Customers to Symmetrical Service
NEW YORK – The livelihood of many businesses depends on a fast, reliable Internet connection to perform myriad tasks ranging from sharing with prospective homebuyers an HD-quality video of a home for sale to emailing…
Cable Operator Revenues Approach Historic Shift
Leichtman Research Group (LRG) says the largest U.S. cable TV operators now have more high speed access customers than they do video customers, according to Bruce Leichtman, LRG president and principal analyst. And, sometime in…
LRG: Cable Broadband Subscribers Exceed Video Subscribers
Representing about 93 percent of the market, the seven largest U.S. cable companies and telcos added nearly 385,000 new high-speed Internet subscribers on a net basis in 2Q 2014. High-speed Internet subscriber rolls among the…
Symmetrical FiOS Broadband on Tap from Verizon
Verizon said today it will tap into a unique capability of its fiber-to-the-home infrastructure that could provide a significant differentiation point in the competitive home broadband market. The company plans to upgrade the speeds of…
ACSI: ISP, Pay-TV Customer Satisfaction Lowest of 43 Industries Studied
U.S. consumers aren’t particularly pleased with the overall quality of their Internet Service Providers (ISPs), or their pay-TV services and providers for that matter, according to the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) report. Americans…