The FCC adopted an order on Friday that calls for carriers to move to a bill-and-keep approach for access charges on toll-free calls. The goal of the FCC bill-and-keep action is to curb “arbitrage and fraud” undermining the intercarrier compensation…
Two rural telecom service providers have filed a class-action lawsuit against T-Mobile over calls not completed to rural service areas. T-Mobile previously was fined $40 million by the FCC for rural calls not completed, but that money went to the…
Two new initiatives from service provider standards organization MEF aim to streamline the process of establishing customer circuits that originate and terminate on different service provider networks. If this sounds familiar, that’s because MEF has been doing a lot of…
Indiana-based regional fiber network operator Intelligent Fiber Network (IFN) is expanding its internet connectivity in Ashburn, Virginia where it exchanges traffic with numerous other network operators. Washington DC suburb Ashburn is a major internet hub. The initiative will feature a…
SDN Communications, a fiber network owned by 17 South Dakota independent telecom providers, continues to expand its reach with the news that it will interconnect with two Minnesota broadband companies, the Christensen Communications Company of Madelia and Lismore Cooperative Lismore….
Windstream Wholesale is expanding its core network into NJFX’s international landing station in Wall Township, N.J. The Windstream NJFX deal will expand Windstream’s capacity to major data center markets. Windstream especially called attention to the impact the move will have…
Wholesale Ethernet access services got a boost when industry association MEF developed standards to simplify the process of ordering and provisioning services that span multiple carrier networks. MEF now aims to take that further for what it calls “managed access…
When Verizon ThingSpace was launched in October 2015, the company called it a “self-service web interface” that would allow users to “manage their Internet of Things (IoT) environments” and would give developers the ability to build IoT solutions using Verizon’s…
AT&T and Verizon have been conducting a sort of press release duel in recent months with regard to public safety communications. Verizon traditionally has had the largest share of that market, but AT&T gained a tremendous edge when it won…
Moving forward, metro networks will be less about transport and more about being service-centric, said Juniper Networks Director of Product Marketing Management Donyel Jones-Williams in an interview. Juniper today announced three products that will play a key role in supporting…
The FCC will vote next month on an order that would reverse Net Neutrality guidelines imposed in 2015 under the previous administration, senior commission officials told reporters today. The order also would reclassify broadband as a more lightly regulated Title…
October 20, 2017 — ROCK HILL, S.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–For Comporium broadband customers waiting for their next speed boost, the wait is over. Beginning on Wednesday morning, the local broadband provider began increasing internet connection speeds for nearly 75,000 cable modem customers. The…
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