by Pivot
Month: October 2014
TDM-to-IP Transition Drives FCC 911 Proposal and Copper Retirement Ideas
FCC officials said today that FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is circulating two items suggesting that the commission take further action on two aspects of the TDM-to-IP transition. One item is a notice of proposed rulemaking…
Net Neutrality and Peering: Could Proposal Give FCC Tighter Control?
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler reportedly has devised a Net Neutrality, also known as Open Internet, proposal that would put a portion of an Internet connection under tighter FCC regulation, but would not specifically prohibit paid…
Level 3 Completes Acquisition of tw telecom
BROOMFIELD, Colo., Oct. 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) announced it completed its acquisition of tw telecom. The transaction further positions the company as a global leader in the rapidly evolving…
Uncertain Demand for Gigabit Driven by Uncertain Cost to Supply
In some ways, gigabit Internet access is a “tomorrow” issue for many of the world’s Internet service providers, as it might well be for many providers of Internet access in rural areas of the United…
CenturyLink Builds Next Generation IP Core Network with Alcatel-Lucent
MONROE, La. and PARIS, Oct. 29, 2014 — CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that CenturyLink, the third largest telecommunications company in the U.S., has deployed the 7950 Extensible Routing System…
Cox Communications Extends Gigabit Speeds to Virginia
CHESAPEAKE, Va., Oct. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Cox Communications today announced that its gigabit internet service for residential customers is coming to Virginia. The company will offer speeds 100 times faster than the average speed…
NTCA Members Convene With White House Rural Council
Arlington, Va. (October 28, 2014)-Dozens of members of NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association were invited to the White House Executive Office Building today for an event hosted by the White House Rural Council. The event, titled…
Telecom Industry Gets Serious About G.fast
At least two North American service providers are very interested in using G.fast technology to dramatically boost the bandwidth that can be delivered over existing copper pair phone wiring, according to a source who should…
Report: Large-Screen Smartphone Data Usage Higher than for Small Screens
Mobile device screen size is strongly and positively correlated with mobile app usage, according to new market research in which mobile usage data provider Mobidia and IHS Technology delve into “the impact of smartphone screen…
Could Time Warner Cable’s Phone 2 Go App Stem Landline Cord Cutting?
Time Warner Cable today launched what could be a service provider’s best shot at stemming ongoing landline phone service erosion. But it’s only an option for services providers who, like TWC, have converted their voice…
Questions Raised by Plan to Give MVPD Status to OTT Video
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s intention to give Internet video providers MVPD status, revealed yesterday in a blog post, raises a range of questions that are likely to be hotly debated in coming months. In gaining…
Hyperscale Survey: Data Center Bandwidth Exploding
Designed to enable massive increases of scale rapidly, hyper-scale networking characterizes nearly six of ten (57 percent) of enterprise data center networking environments, according to results of a survey of 1,623 U.S. and European IT…