Some Comcast customers are subject to 300 GB per month data cap
Many customers may just now be finding out that Comcast caps home Internet use to 300 gigabytes per month. Perhaps more surprising is the company’s rationale. According to a Comcast VP, the practice...
Netflix conducts monthly speed rankings based on delivery of its content
Each month streaming-video service Netflix ranks Internet service providers by how fast the networks delivered Netflix content to consumers. The July results were recently released; see how your ISP stacks up.
Although its availability is...
Verizon Communications has been in deadlocked negotiations with union workers about pension and health care benefits since June 22. One deadline for a deal already came and went with no progress.
The Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers also are...
Alcatel-Lucent’s undersea cabling business completed deployment of an undersea cable linking Florida and Ecuador, as well as entered into an agreement to run undersea cable along the coast of Alaska.
The 3,700-mile link from Central America to Florida is dubbed the Pacific Caribbean Cable System...
San Antonio is next city slated for fiber-to-the-home deployment
Google Fiber this week announced plans to expand its 1-gigabit-per-second home Internet service into San Antonio market; once the network is up and running, San Antonio will be the largest market covered by the tech giant's...
Fiber expansion to add 350 route miles to the network
Continuing to expand its fiber footprint, Colorado-based Zayo Group Holdings plans to hook up some 500 Seattle-area towers to fiber as part of a mobile infrastructure expansion strategy.
Zayo is providing the fiber-to-the-tower connections in service...
Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Nashville next up for Gigabit fiber-to-the-home
Google Fiber, the tech giant’s ambitious project to offer fiber-to-the-home beginning in major metro markets, has started construction of its network in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
On June 25, Google Fiber notified locals of the construction phase...
WiredWest trying to fund $79M build-out that would bring fiber to 32 towns
As entrenched cable companies, as well as disruptive new entrants, work to rollout fiber-to-the-home connections, 22 Massachusetts towns are taking control of their own destinies.
WiredWest is a cooperative put together to build...
Fiber vandals may be disguised as telecommunications maintenance workers
The FBI is looking into a string of vandalism incidents targeting fiber-optic cables in Northern California.
The latest incident was reported on June 9; an AT&T fiber-optic cable in Walnut Creek, Calif., was severed, prompting the carrier...
ORLANDO, Fla. – Verizon Communications has generated considerable experience in migrating from legacy copper-based infrastructure to more powerful fiber-based connections, which it shared this week during a keynote address at Genband’s Perspectives 15 event in Orlando.
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Sowmyanarayan Sampath, SVP of transformation at Verizon, noted that...
Cablevision is challenging validity of Verizon’s claim that TV service is 100% fiber-based
Cablevision wants a judge to decide whether the company can continue running an ad challenging Verizon Communications' claim that its TV service is completely operated on a fiber optic network.
Cablevision attorneys filed the...
Analyst calls it a “stealth, sweetheart agreement”; Verizon and state official trade barbs
Customers and industry watchers are crying foul regarding a pending regulatory action that could de-regulate Verizon Communications’ landline services, potentially hurting rural customers.
The pending deal between Verizon New Jersey and the New...
Dallas, Houston, Denver and Los Angeles get more metro fiber
Atlanta-based Birch Communications is steadily expanding its metro fiber assets, most recently in major markets of Dallas and Houston, Texas; Denver and Los Angeles.
The additional fiber connects 46 buildings to metro fiber rings. Birch presently connects...
AT&T, Comcast and Google compete on metro-fiber Internet connectivity
Today AT&T began offering its GigaPower high-speed home and business Internet service package, continuing its competition with Comcast and Google.
AT&T is the first of the three to offer its service in Nashville, Tenn. Prices range from...
NoaNet works to restore service to residents and public agencies
A network outage in Washington state earlier this week derailed student standardized testing, crippled municipal election and filing systems, and disrupted commuters who rely on ferries to get where they’re going.
According to local reports, the...
Combines wireless and fiber-based backhaul
WASHINGTON – Cambridge Broadband Networks Limited, headquartered in the U.K., has successfully established its VectaStar licensed point-to-multipoint across 42 countries for backhaul and enterprise access networks.
The company is now transferring this expertise to the U.S. where congestion in existing spectrum...
Carriers need access to more fiber to comply with FCC’s net neutrality decision
Following in chief competitor Verizon Communications' footsteps, AT&T on May 10 announced an interconnection agreement that will join the mobile network operator’s IP network with Level 3 Communications’ extensive fiber network.
In a...
Crown Castle CEO Ben Moreland likes to call fiber "the horizontal tower" and this week he announced plans to broaden the tower company's fiber reach with the $1 billion purchase of Sunesys, a wholly owned subsidiary of power giant Quanta Services. Crown Castle said that...
Comcast rolls out Gigabit Pro in California; faster than Google Fiber, AT&T GigaPower
In a move to keep up with competitors Google and AT&T, Comcast has rolled out its ultra-high-speed home Internet service packages throughout California.
Comcast said in an April 17 announcement it will launch...
Fiber apparently is a tasty treat for monkeys, squirrels and other critters
As the global explosion of data demand continues to pick up speed, network operators are racing to extend fiber backbone to keep up with customer demand. Large-scale fiber deployments are costly and subject...
Comcast, AT&T and Google Fiber move on Southeast hub
Cable and Internet provider Comcast announced it will begin offering residential multi-gigabit home Internet service for Atlanta-area customers beginning in May.
Comcast’s service is called Gigabit Pro and promises 2 gigabits per second throughput speeds with a...
GigaPower expansion overlaps with Google Fiber plans
AT&T is expanding its GigaPower high-speed Internet and television service to the tech-centric market in Cupertino, Calif.
AT&T GigaPower is currently available in Austin (the first deployment), Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas; Kansas City, Mo.; and Raleigh-Durham and Winston-Salem,...
Millimeter wave radios connect to city’s fiber backbone
Baltimore’s historic Inner Harbor received a touch of modernization with the city’s recent deployment of free public Wi-Fi powered by 60 GHz radios manufactured by Siklu and mounted on lamp posts.
Siklu spokesman Kevin Tanzillo said the installation...
Investing $4.6B to hook up 4 million new sites to superfast broadband
Dubbed Project Lightning, Virgin Media has announced plans to spend more than $4.6 billion to bring 152 Mbps broadband Internet to some 4 million homes and businesses in the U.K.
Virgin touts its data...
