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Broadband More Available Now Than Ever Before

Competition has increased among broadband providers in recent years. There is a 31 percent increase – from 2003 – in the number of survey respondents facing some kind of competition from 2003. ...More
April 3, 2012 By Lindsay Welnick
Posted in News
Exclusive Mobility Roundtable: Top 2012 Trends, Part 1

Our panel of industry leaders from Cisco, GENBAND, ALU, Ericsson, Tellabs and NSN weigh in on monetizing services outside of access and over the top (OTT), the need for intelligent policy and control, ongoing coverage and capacity needs, standardizing VoLTE, and more. ...More
April 2, 2012 By Tara Seals
Posted in News
Australia Snubs Huawei for Broadband Network Build

Huawei has long been criticized for being too closely linked to the Chinese government, whose human-rights violations have been well documented. Also of concern is the perceived threat of espionage and cyber-attacks. ...More
March 26, 2012 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News
Ericsson Increases Interest in LG-Ericsson

Based in Seoul, South Korea, LG-Ericsson offers mobile and fixed network infrastructure, telecom services and software as well as broadband, voice and data network solutions for enterprises. ...More
March 23, 2012
Posted in News
Comcast, Other Cablecos Couldn't Justify Wireless Business

SpectrumCo acquired 137 licenses in 2006, but the joint venture later found that the cost to deploy a wireless network "would be at least $10-11 billion with a very uncertain business outcome," a Comcast executive said. ...More
March 22, 2012 By Josh Long
Posted in News
Mobile World Congress Executive Summary

This Executive Summary gives a snapshot of the things shaping innovative business models and new services that are becoming reality with the commercialization of LTE, network infrastructure investments and the playing out of the video-related profitability gap. ...More
March 21, 2012
Posted in Reports, Revenue Management, Service & Network Management, Service Creation & Delivery
New Competitive Coalition Forms to Promote Broadband Policies at FCC, Congress

The group is expected to represent the interests of the competitive local exchange carriers that were born out of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. ...More
March 16, 2012 By Josh Long
Posted in News
Windstream Starts Stimulus Project in New Mexico

Windstream says it was the largest single recipient of broadband stimulus grants awarded on a competitive basis by the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Rural Utilities Service. ...More
March 14, 2012 By Craig Galbraith
Posted in News
AT&T's Customer Who Won't Shut Up

A man won a judgment against AT&T because a judge found the carrier broke its promise to offer unlimited data service. But he's still talking and doesn't care if AT&T cuts off his service in spite of the company's plea for confidential settlement talks. ...More
March 14, 2012 By Josh Long
Posted in News, Service & Network Management
NTCA CEO Bloomfield’s Call to Arms

Shirley Bloomfield tells rural operators to stop being so polite and work together to create some angst at the FCC about its proposed rule making. ...More
March 14, 2012 By Tim McElligott
Posted in Articles