by Pivot
Tag: Strategy
Brightspeed Eclipses One Million Fiber Locations Mark
Brightspeed said today that it has made fiber broadband available to more than one million locations within the first year of launching Brightspeed Fiber Internet. The high-speed broadband service is available to hundreds of thousands…
CEO Foretells a Bright Future for Starry Post-Bankruptcy
Fixed wireless provider Starry has learned from mistakes of the past and is on a path to being free cash flow positive some time next year, said Starry CEO Alex Moulle-Berteaux at an investor event…
Efficiently Locate Competitive Opportunities Using GIS
Broadband service providers (BSPs) often spend months and sometimes years considering areas for network expansion. It’s a complex business decision—however, current geographic information system (GIS) technology offers enormous process efficiencies by filtering out unnecessary noise…
New CEO Shares Brightspeed’s Origin Story and How the Company Plans to Invest That $2B in Its Network
Brightspeed’s origin story isn’t typical for the telecom industry – at least not for a company of its size. As the company’s new CEO Tom Maguire explained in an interview with Telecompetitor, it all started…
A Tale of Two Cable Companies: Comcast Vs. Charter Broadband
Cable giants Charter and Comcast reported considerably different broadband results for the third quarter late last week. As financial analysts at MoffettNathanson put it in a research note about Charter’s earnings, “Every unit metric in…
Verizon Touts Network Virtualization Benefits
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…
Charter CEO: BEAD Funding Will Be ‘Trickier Than We Were Hoping For’
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…
Exec Details Fastwyre’s Must-Be-Present-to-Win Strategy
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…
Lumen CEO: “We Know We Need to be Different Than We Are”
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,…
CEO: Charter Rural Strategy Extends Beyond Government Funded Areas to “Perpetuity Growth”
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…
Lumen CFO Slams Telecom Mindset: Winning Means Losing More Slowly Than the Other Guy
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…
Exec: FWA is an “Excess Capacity Model” But T-Mobile is Considering Capex to Expand It
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…
