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Mediacom CEO Drops Bid to Go Private
Light Reading On Tuesday, Mediacom founder, chairman, and CEO Rocco Commisso expressed his frustration with the process by withdrawing a non-binding offer to buy up all the shares of the MSO he doesn’t currently own for $6 per share. Topics: Mediacom
$21 Million Grant Funds Fiber Optic Network
Cedartown Standard The U.S. Commerce Department’s NTIA has announced awarding of the grant to Appalachian Valley Fiber Network, a public/private partnership established to develop and expand broadband in the area. Topics: telecom, telecommunications, satellite, fiber optic
Data Center Shift Gets Internap Cloud-Ready
Light Reading Since its launch in the mid ’90s as an Internet route-optimization specialist, Internap Network Services Corp. (Nasdaq: INAP) has reinvented itself more than once, most recently focusing on data centers as a key strategic element. Over the past year, Internap has developed hosting services as well, building on its data center expertise, and [...]
Has Verizon Made Its Last DSL Boost?
Light Reading With relatively low investment dollars, Verizon offers DSL customers download speeds of up to 15 Mbit/s, but is this the last upgrade? Topics: Verizon
West African Undersea Cable to be Extended
Creamer Media’s Engineering News The West African Cable System (WACS), the submarine cable system that will connect South Africa and a number of African countries with Europe by the end of next year, would be extended from Portugal to the UK, technology provider Alcatel-Lucent has said. Topics: South Africa, undersea cable, telecom, telecommunications, Africa, Europe
Philippine Operators Focus on Data
Light Reading It’s an SMS hotbed, but the Philippines’ future means broadband, and lots of it, finds a new Pyramid report. Topics: broadband, SMS, Philippines
US Gets Worried About Huawei
Light Reading Eight US senators are trying to block Huawei from selling gear to Sprint over concerns the deal would threaten national security. Topics: security, Huawei
Windstream Buying Q-Comm
CED Magazine KDL’s contiguous fiber network spans nearly 30,000 fiber route miles in 22 states. Norlight serves approximately 5500 small- and medium-size business… Topics: telecom, Windstream, telecommunications
Verizon Achieves 1Gbps Over Existing Network
TG Daily Verizon says it’s completed a field trial in which it delivered a 1Gbps service to an existing Fios business customer. Topics: telecom, Verizon, telecommunications, networking, GPON
AboveNet Lights Up Denver’s Dark Fiber Network Market
FierceTelecom AboveNet (NYSE: ABVT) has decided to tap into Denver, Colo.’s lucrative business services market, one that includes an array of Fortune 1000 companies, by building a new private metro fiber network. Spanning 97 route miles of 432 and 216 fiber cables, AboveNet’s Denver fiber network will deliver 23,000 fiber miles to support the area’s [...]
Despite Sub Losses, Charter Increases Revenue
Light Reading Charter Communications Inc. lost 76,600 basic video customers during the second quarter, continuing a trend seen by other major US MSOs, but the company still managed to increase revenues by 4.9 percent thanks to growth in other categories, including high-speed Internet, digital video, and voice. Topics: Charter Cable, Docsis 3.0
BSNL Suffers First Annual Loss
Light Reading Staff wage increases and the intense mobile tariff war in India pushed state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) into the red during its financial year 2009-2010, which ended March 31. Topics: India, carrier
African Undersea Cable Glut May Spell Price War for Operators
Bloomberg After a decade of too little Internet capacity, telecommunications companies in Africa including Vodafone Group Plc and MTN Group Ltd. may face a different challenge: too much. Topics: telecom, Africa, telecommunications, undersea cable
Dark Fiber, Colocation, IP Transit, Service Provider and Other Industry Leaders Converge at Telecom One-on-One Event
TMCnet The partly cloudy summer Thursday in Manhattan was a day for deals to be made, for buzzwords like “colocation,” “dark fiber,” and “data center” to fly out of the mouths of small startup telecom execs, and for established service provides to make their presence known. Topics: telecom, dark fiber, Google, telecommunications
Virgin Media CEO Disses DSL
Light Reading UK MSO Virgin Media Inc. (Nasdaq: VMED) intends to take dead aim at the DSL competition by doubling up the downstream capabilities of its Docsis 3.0 service in 2010. “We will be launching 100-meg by the end of the year,” Virgin Media CEO Neil Berkett said on Wednesday’s second-quarter earnings call. Topics: Virgin [...]
Cable Networks Warn of TV Everywhere Failure
Light Reading The Independent Show — Complaining that video on demand (VoD) has failed to deliver advertising revenue to programmers, executives from MTV Networks and Discovery Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) warned that “TV Everywhere” Websites will fail unless networks can monetize content through ad revenue. Topics: VoD
Telecom to Acquire Fiber Network
Northern Virginia Daily Telecommunitions provider nTelos announced this week that it plans to acquire One Communications Corp.’s FiberNet business for $170 million in cash. The fiber optic network consists of approximately 3,500 route miles and covers all of West Virginia and parts of Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky, according to a news release. Topics: [...]
State Plans To Build Fiber Optic Along Interstate Highways
Vermont Public Radio A fiber optic cable will eventually follow the length of Vermont’s interstate highways. And as VPR’s John Dillon reports, that could be the foundation for extending high-speed Internet services to more areas of the state. Topics: telecom, fiber optic, telecommunications
ISPs Shamed by UK Broadband Speed Tests
Light Reading The marketing sham that is the UK’s broadband market was exposed today by a report from regulator Office of Communications (Ofcom) , which elucidates the chasm between the “up to” speeds advertised by service providers and the actual broadband connections that customers experience. Topics: ISP, broadband
Severed Deep-Sea Cable Disrupts Service
Honolulu Star-Advertiser A cable repair ship must be contracted by owners tw telecom and use pontoons to float the cable up to the service for repair. The process is likely to take up to five weeks, Santos said. The cable is a Prisma DT digital transport system by Georgia-based Scientific-Atlanta Inc., which is now part [...]
