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Time Warner Offers 50 Mbps For $99.95 Per Month
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Time Warner Cable residential customers can now propel themselves into the next generation of the Internet with speeds up to 50 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps upstream for only $99.95 per month.
Topics: telecom, Time Warner, broadband, Texas
CLECs Are Cable Industry’s Newest Target
The FCC approved Comcast’s acquisition of CIMCO, a Chicago based CLEC, paving the way for Comcast to continue its march towards significantly growing its SMB and Enterprise telecom market share. Comcast is also in the process of acquiring New Global Telecom. In fact M&A activity for CLECs, particularly among cable MSOs, may be heating up.
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Sprint Taking Some Hits on Wholesale VoIP Service
At one point in early 2009, cable companies using Sprint’s wholesale IP voice service passed 31 million homes, servicing 4.5 million of them with VoIP service.
Topics: Sprint, VoIP, telecom
Cellphone, Cable, Satellite TV Tops in U.S. Customer Complaints
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Cell phone, the cable & satellite TV industry and banks led the way as disgruntled customers filed 9.7% more complaints to the Better Business Bureau last year than they did in 2008. Amidst the tough economic and financial times, the public also turned to the BBB more than 65 million times for help researching companies, [...]
RCN Acquired For $1.2 Billion
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RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI) and ABRY Partners today announced their entry into a definitive agreement for an investment fund managed by ABRY to acquire RCN for total consideration of approximately $1.2 billion, including the assumption of debt.
Topics: RCN, telecom
Deadline Extended On Next Broadband Stimulus
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NTIA and RUS will grant a limited extension of time to file infrastructure applications in the second funding round. Specifically, applicants for BTOP Comprehensive Community Infrastructure projects will have until March 26th to file their applications to NTIA.
Topics: broadband, telecom, USA, broadband stimulus
Latest Broadband Stimulus Awards Approach $100 Million
The National Telecommunications and Information Agency on March 1 announced two additional broadband stimulus awards from the first funding round. These included a $7.25 grant to the California Emerging Technology Fund for digital literacy training in southern California and an $84 million grant to the Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet) to expand its high-speed network [...]
Wireless Carriers Underpay for Access, Small Telcos Charge
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Small telcos say they are losing substantial access revenues to voice over IP providers, a topic we explored in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. Often the same small telcos say they are also being underpaid for terminating calls from wireless carriers—a topic that has received less attention, perhaps because it is even [...]
MegaPath Offering Cloud-Based VoIP Service
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MegaPath, Inc., the leading provider of managed IP data, voice, and security services in North America, announced today during the Channel Partners Conference & Expo that it has launched DuetSM Hosted, providing users with a fully hosted VoIP offering that removes all management requirements.
Topics: VoIP, North America, broadband, telecom, MegaPath
How VoIP and Other Carriers Are Avoiding Acces Fees
Phantom traffic–which occurs when call signaling or call detail records needed for accurate billing are missing or altered–is just one of numerous methods that carriers, including some VOIP providers, are using to avoid paying terminating access charges.
Topics: carrier, telecom, termination fees
GENBAND Wins Bid To Buy Nortel Carrier VoIP Assets
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GENBAND, Inc., a leading developer of next-generation media, session and security gateway solutions, today announced that it will acquire substantially all assets of the Nortel Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions Business (CVAS). The acquisition is subject to…
Topics: telecom, Texas, carrier, Nortel, VoIP, Genband
Vonage Still Alive and Kicking
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VoIP pioneer Vonage is still alive and kicking. In fact, they made a profit in 4Q09, their first profitable quarter for the year. Considering Vonage has been labeled “dead man walking” on more than one occasion, it’s noteworthy to see them march on. Challenges still remain though. They ended 2009 with 2.4 million subscribers, down [...]
Covad Rolls Out Nationwide MPLS
Covad Communications Company today announced the nationwide availability of Covad MPLS VPN services, along with new Quality of Service (QoS) / Class of Service (CoS) capabilities that complete the company’s rollout of an intelligent network platform partners can use to deliver innovative…
Topics: Covad, telecom, MPLS
TDS Offers Price for Life Campaign
Many service providers have offered so called ‘price for life’ campaigns that promise to keep prices stable over the long term. Telcos have used this strategy as a way to capitalize on the perception that cable companies raise their pricing regularly. But cable companies have also used this tactic.
Topics: telecom
Suddenlink Turns Up the DOCSIS 3.0
Suddenlink, the St. Louis, Mo based cable MSO, is accelerating their DOCSIS 3.0 strategy. They doubled their D3 footprint in 2009 and now reach 23% of homes passed with the ultra fast broadband service.
Topics: telecom, DOCSIS, SuddenLink, Arkansas, Google, Texas, broadband, California
