HickoryTech changes its brand to Enventis companywide, illustrating the importance of broadband and business for Tier 2 telephone companies.

Frontier won a contract to provide technical support to Intuit, developer of QuickBooks software, said Frontier CEO Maggie Wilderotter at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia Conference in New York today.

Smaller carriers lag behind Tier 1 carriers in deploying LTE by about two years – but that means the smaller carriers could be increasingly attractive to equipment vendors a few years out

Frontier will build a Gigabit FTTH network in Carbondale, IL, in partnership with the Southern Illinois University

The number of customers served by tier 2 and tier 3 wireless carriers dropped from 22.2 million to 12.5 million in one year, notes iGR. We talked to the report author about why..

