Global Bandwidth News
Windstream Double-Play Trims Line Loss
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Windstream is offering consumers a $59.99 double-play offer with 3-Mbit/s Internet access and unlimited local and long-distance calling that has a “for life” price guarantee. As a result, Windstream CFO Tony Thomas told the Credit Suisse Global Media and Communications Conference today, broadband penetration is up and access line losses in 2009 were below [...]
Liberty Exec Details D3’s ‘Sweet’ Economics
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Liberty Global Inc. (Nasdaq: LBTY) is spending on average about $20 per home passed for its rapid network buildout of Docsis 3.0, the platform the operator is using to deliver downstream speeds of 100 Mbit/s or more in portions of Europe.
Topics: Liberty Global, Docsis 3.0
Cable Breaks Out the ITV Drano
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One big technical challenge for EBIF is ensuring that applications don’t get corrupted or dropped altogether as they travel through the networks and pierce through processors, multiplexors, and other devices that apps will encounter as they travel inside video transport streams.
Topics: EBIF
Charter Passes 1 Million Homes With Docsis 3.0
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Following an initial launch in St. Louis, Charter has made its 60-Mbit/s “Ultra” wideband tier available to about 1 million homes, Mike Lovett, Charter’s interim CEO, said on a conference call
Topics: Charter Communications, Docsis 3.0
Force10 Networks To File For IPO
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Force10 Networks Inc. is finally going public, one year after getting acquired by Turin Networks. Specifics such as the price range haven’t been determined yet, but Force10’s registration, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today, lists $143.75 million as the maximum amount to be raised.
Topics: Force10 Networks
Lisbon, Portugal Getting Gigabit FTTH
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This morning the service here on site was averaging between 600 Mbit/s and 700 Mbit/s, and peaking at about 800 Mbit/s (according to an on-screen meter), which would put the number of end-user connections served by a 2.5-Gbit/s GPON port at a maximum of four. (Indeed, the demo booth here had four terminals up [...]
Google’s FTTH: Does Huawei Win?
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Google is notorious for demanding low prices and threatening to build the equipment itself if that demand isn’t met. (“There’s not a lot of love between systems vendors and Google,” Griliches says.) Huawei is famous for undercutting the competition on price. It would be an easy matchup.
Topics: FTTH, Huawei, Google, North America
Femtos To Go Macro
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Expect to see lots of wild and wacky demos in Barcelona next week from home base-station vendors for all of the things you can do with a femto when it’s at home or in the office.
Topics: 3G, femtos
Cox Finding Ethernet Success in Verticals
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Cox Communications Inc. has long been the cable industry’s leader in delivering Carrier Ethernet services, but even with other cable operators now focusing more on business services, Cox actually widened the gap in the Vertical Systems Group ’s 2009 Global U.S. Business Ethernet Leaderboard.
Topics: Cox Communications, carrier, Ethernet
Supercomm Is Dead?
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The 2010 Supercomm, slated for the week of Oct. 25 in Chicago, is being canceled, a source from a would-be exhibitor tells Light Reading.
Topics: telecom
Indian Operators Battle Brutal Market
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India’s mobile operators are signing up plenty of customers, but their ARPU levels are being eroded by a savage price war
Topics: mobile operators, India
Smit Leaves Charter for Comcast
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Neil Smit named president of Comcast’s cable unit, just two months after he steered Charter out of bankruptcy
Topics: Comcast
Ericsson’s Services Head Eyes More Growth
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New head of Ericsson’s services business expects further growth and is looking for more targeted acquisitions to boost local capabilities
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AlcaLu Leads New Green Mission
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Alcatel-Lucent spearheads five-year mission to boldly go where no Internet initiative has gone before…
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AT&T Says It’s Ready for Wireless Growth
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AT&T CTO John Donovan hits some highlights of the service provider’s efforts to improve its networks to keep up with wireless data demand
Topics: wireless
