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...
WOW Business drops more fiber in Chicago
Dallas, Texas-based PEG Bandwidth this week fired up fiber backhaul services to its 2,000th cell site since activating the first location in March 2010.
The company is busy deploying fiber backhaul connections at “several hundred” more locations in the...
Another possible Google Fiber expansion announcement later this year
As expected, Google Fiber is coming to 18 new cities in four metropolitan areas, according to a Jan. 27 announcement from the company.
The high-speed Internet and HD television service is planned for the Atlanta; Nashville, Tenn.;...
Atlanta, Nashville, Raleigh-Durham and Charlotte in the mix
Google Fiber is poised to expand to four more U.S. markets, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with company plans.
Google already offers the Gigabit fiber optic-based Internet service in Austin, Texas; Provo,...
Cloud computing, OTT video drive data demand
Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong are the latest locales in which Verizon Communications has deployed a 100G fiber network, adding some 11,681 miles of cable to the carrier’s global high-speed backhaul footprint.
Verizon already controls more than 40,000 miles of...
Acquisition converges data centers, fiber networks
Backhaul and data center services provider Zayo Group announced a $675 million agreement to purchase competitor Latisys Holdings, which handles complimentary data center co-location and other physical asset services.
Latisys currently operates eight domestic data centers comprising 185,000 square feet...
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This week marks the continuation of the advanced wireless services 3 spectrum auction, also known...
UPC Business, a major Irish network services provider, announced the acquisition of operator Bitbuzz, which provides Wi-Fi hot spots to hotels, airports, pubs and other locations.
Terms of the Dec. 4 deal have not been made public.
Bitbuzz Managing Director Shane Deasy said the acquisition “will...
Fiber infrastructure expansions from Zayo and Southern Telecom are poised to bring better connectivity options to three American markets.
On Dec. 4, Zayo Group Holdings, a publicly traded bandwidth infrastructure provider based in Boulder, Colo., announced an acquisition of IdeaTek Systems.
IdeaTek is a fiber operator...
Nokia Networks and Saudi Arabia-based Mobily on Nov. 5 announced a continuation of their partnership, which includes managed services and expansion of the telecom operator’s 2G, 3G and LTE mobile networks.
Nokia and Mobily have been in business together for the past three years and,...
AUSTIN, Texas – Mehul Kapadia, managing director of Formula 1 business for Tata Communications, oversees the telecommunications infrastructure that enables fans around the world to share, in real time, his passion for F1 racing.
Kapadia told RCR Wireless News that F1 exists “at the pinnacle...
AUSTIN, Texas – High-speed broadband takes on a whole new meaning in the world of Formula 1 racing, where data delivered a second too late can mean the difference between life and death, or between winning and losing. When driver Sebastian Vettel experienced a...
