It’s that time of the year again for the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers – the cable technology association has issued the list of candidates for its 2006 board of directors. Ten seats on the 17-member board are up for grabs, and this year’s crop will include quite a few new faces. Of the 29 candidates […]
Verizon extends FTTH in New Jersey
Verizon Inc. is on the move yet again with its next-generation network buildout, announcing it will bring fiber-to-the premise technology to 17 additional New Jersey communities. The Bell operator will extend its FTTP technology to Trenton; Maplewood, Montclair, South Orange and West Orange in Essex County; Berlin Borough, Berlin Township, Chesilhurst, Haddon, Waterford and Winslow […]
Integra5 tunes into telco co-op deal
Integra5 Communications has landed yet another customer for its messaging and communications technology products, announcing that Foothills Telephone Cooperative of Staffordsville, Ky., will deploy its TV Caller ID and TV Voicemail Message Waiting applications. Foothills, which provides phone, high-speed data and cable TV services to more than 15,000 customers in Lawrence and Magoffin counties, will […]
Verizon broadband boosts 3Q
Verizon Communications Inc. saw the biggest jump ever in new broadband wireline subscribers, and that in part helped buoy the company’s third-quarter earnings. Verizon added a company record 389,000 wireline broadband connections, now combined to include DSL and “FiOS” fiber-to-the-home connections. That brings its total broadband connections to 4.5 million, a number that has grown […]
S.C. cabler taps Xtend for cellular backhaul
Multiservice telecommunications provider Hargray Communications is literally going to extend its hybrid fiber/coax plant to benefit its cellular business using technology from Xtend Networks. Hargray, which runs competitive local exchange, cable and wireless phone services in several South Carolina markets, is tapping T-1 emulation technology from Vyyo subsidiary Xtend to supply its own T-1 backhaul […]
Charter rings up telephony in Southern California
Charter Communications Inc. has chosen Inland Empire and High Desert as the first two California communities it will connect to its new Charter Telephone service. The lifeline service will offer unlimited local and long distance calling and a bank of popular call features such as caller ID, call waiting, speed dial and anonymous call rejection […]
Verizon inks Scripps programming deal
Verizon Inc. has rounded up additional programming for its fledgling FiOS TV fiber-to-the-home-based service, inking a deal with Scripps Networks to supply its lifestyle programming. Launched Sept. 22 in Keller, Texas, Verizon’s FiOS service will carry Scripps cable channels HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, FINE LIVING, Great American Country (GAC) and Shop at Home. FiOS […]
SureWest ups IP ante with Cisco gear
SureWest Communications is adding to its Internet Protocol gear, tapping Cisco Systems Inc.’s IP Next Generation Network product line to power its Sacramento, Calif. fiber-to-the-home services. SureWest now delivers more than 250 video and music channels, 10 Megabit-per-second to 20 Mbps Internet connections and voice services to 18,000 subscribers, and it is adding about 480 […]