Cable providers and telecom companies are changing their strategy in how they approach customers, according to a double play bundle report from GlobalData. The firm says that changes in demand and cost considerations are leading providers to focus on double…
Driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and demand for reliable high speed data, consumers spent $118 billion on new communications services, (voice, video and data) — a massive spending increase over the 2020 estimate of $91 billion, according to a report…
C Spire Home is bringing its Gigabit FTTH platform to the Mississippi markets of Saltillo and Gulfport, with plans to add Biloxi to C Spire markets beginning next year. The expansion will cover roughly 78K households in total. Saltillo, a…
The most popular U.S. broadband service tiers provide service at between 100 Mbps and 999 Mbps, according to new gigabit adoption research from Parks Associates. More than one in five households (22%) take service at speeds in that range, in…
Though there will be a slowdown in service adoption, North America will remain the largest multi-play service market through 2023, according to a new report about multi-play service penetration from GlobalData. Multri-play services include bundles of broadband, voice, video, wireless…
Dalton Utilities/OptiLink, a municipal utility company serving northwest Georgia, yesterday announced the launch of GigLink, a gigabit internet service. The Dalton Utilities gigabit service is priced at $79.95 per month. Two months ago, the company launched VidLink, a streaming entertainment…
TDS is flexing some fiber broadband muscle, with announcements today that the carrier intends to overbuild two Wisconsin communities with fiber. Both communities, Oregon and McFarland, are suburbs of Madison, Wisc. and both are currently served by Frontier and Charter,…
U.S. consumers are embracing next-gen bundles and telco and cable providers need to adapt or risk losing significant market share to disruptors, says market research firm Ovum. Their new report, Digital Consumer Insights 2017: Multiplay, outlines changing bundling trends. The…
September 26, 2016 — MEDIACOM PARK, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mediacom Communications today announced it added a new 30-minute international calling feature to its Xtream triple-play service, a change that comes at no additional cost and offers customers the ability to save money…
Frontier has a goal of offering a triple-play bundle of voice, video and data using its home-grown Vantage video offering in 50% of the company’s local service footprint, said Frontier President and CEO Dan McCarthy today. In the remainder of…
Google announced a coming Google Fiber triple play, with the introduction of Fiber voice service. The service will be in a phased roll-out and it follows an announced trial for the service back in February. The cloud based phone service…
The tier 3 telecom market gained another consolidator yesterday with the news that St. Louis-based startup company CountryWide Broadband plans to acquire iTV-3, operator of an open access gigabit network serving several central Illinois communities, including Peoria, Champaign and Urbana….
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