Verizon touted the benefits of the massive multi-year redesign of its network architecture in a press release today. The redesign has tapped network virtualization to enable the telco to enhance the customer experience, the company said. Included in the redesign…
Winning funding in the $42.5 billion broadband equity, access and deployment (BEAD) rural broadband program will be “trickier than we were hoping for,” said Charter CEO Chris Winfrey at an investor conference today. “We didn’t get all the guidelines and NTIA instructions…
Fastwyre’s Must-Be-Present-to-Win strategy has brought the company success, said Jim Patterson, Fastwyre chief strategy officer, in an interview with Telecompetitor. Fastwyre Broadband, a portfolio company of Chicago-based private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners LLC and Catania ABC Partners, got its…
Lumen Technologies executives talked enthusiastically and in-depth about the company’s transition to health and growth in its two-hour investor webcast on Monday, June 6. The leadership team explained how Lumen is securing its customer base, driving commercial excellence and innovating…
The government funding that Charter has received for rural broadband deployments generates revenue opportunities for the company beyond the funded areas, Charter CEO Chris Winfrey told investors today. Winfrey noted that while the company has cited rural internal rates of…
When Chris Stansbury joined Lumen as CFO just under a year ago, he didn’t come from the telecom industry. And the biggest surprise to him about the industry was the telecom mindset, he told participants in an investor conference today….
To date, T-Mobile has only offered fixed wireless access (FWA) where the company has excess capacity not needed to support its mobile business. But the company hasn’t ruled out a capital investment to enable FWA expansion, said T-Mobile Chief Financial…
Frontier, less than two years after its emergence from bankruptcy, says that it is halfway to its goal of providing access to fiber broadband to 10 million homes and businesses. The company announced the target in late 2020 and said…
In Telecompetitor’s latest Broadband Industry Innovator series, we talk with Finley’s Vice President & Professional Engineer, Dean Mischke, about what’s going on with the supply chain and how it is affecting the industry. This innovator series has three parts. If you…
In part II of Telecompetitor’s latest Broadband Industry Innovator series, we talk with Finley Engineering’s Vice President & Professional Engineer, Dean Mischke, about the different supply chain issues and how those issues affect the industry. This is part two of a…
In Telecompetitor’s latest Broadband Industry Innovator series, we talk with Finley Engineering’s Vice President & Professional Engineer, Dean Mischke, about the supply chain issues and its effects on the industry. This is a three-part interview series. Stay tuned for the next…
Now that AT&T’s divestiture of WarnerMedia is imminent and the company has revamped its strategy, a key element of that strategy is to be “America’s best broadband provider,” said CEO John Stankey on a virtual investor conference webcast today. Expanding…
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