AT&T announced this morning that its GigaPower service was now live in areas of Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Winston-Salem, N.C. Earlier this year, AT&T teamed up with the North Carolina Next Generation Network (NCNGN) to rollout its fiber-based 1-Gig service to six cities in North Carolina. The NCNGN is comprised of four universities […]
Research: Residential gateways drive CPE market
Spurred on by the deployment of residential gateways, worldwide customer premise equipment (CPE) shipments were projected to reach 152 million by the end of this year. In the cable CPE sector, ABI Research expects DOCSIS 3.0 device shipments will grow 11 percent this year, accounting for nearly 85 percent of the total cable CPE shipments. […]
CTAM launches consumer-facing TVE program
CTAM is out of the starting blocks with a new consumer-facing TV Everywhere initiative that was designed to show consumers how easy it is to access and view multi-screen video content. The campaign, which is called “You could be watching TV,” was designed to expound on the benefits of TV Everywhere services, including live and […]
TDS expands 1-Gig reach
While Google Fiber, CenturyLink, Cox Communications, and AT&T, among others, are targeting larger cities with their 1-gigabit services, TDS Telecom is continuing to rack up small town deployments across four states. Earlier this week, TDS Telecom started offering its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) product in broader areas of Mt. Juliet and La Vergne, Tenn. with plans to […]
Cablevision hires Paxton as SVP, exec director of creative services
Mickey Paxton has boarded Cablevision as the cable operator’s senior vice president and executive director of creative services. In his new job, Paxton is responsible for the execution of Cablevision’s marketing and brand initiatives that support the company’s Optimum-branded services and products. Cablevision said Paxton was now the creative lead for the development and implementation […]
WOW! trims 9% of workforce
Cable over builder WOW! is cutting 9 percent of its more than 3,000 employees. According to a story by DSLreports.com, the layoffs started Wednesday. A company spokeswoman said the elimination of the 270 jobs would continue through early next year. “The reduction in force affects all WOW functions and locations,” WOW! said in a statement. “The […]
Liberty Global picks Amdocs to power MVNO deployments
Liberty Global is using Amdocs’ mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) platform to support its mobile services in Hungary, Switzerland and the Netherlands. With Liberty Global’s foray into quad play services, Amdocs said its Compact Convergence solution reduced time to market while also integrating MVNO with existing business support systems (BSS.) Amdocs’ Compact Convergence is interfaced […]
Infographic: Cogeco to launch neutral Public Cloud
Cogeco Data Services will launch its Public Cloud service early next year, which it said was Canada’s first neutral public cloud offering. The service will provide businesses access to public, private and hybrid cloud capabilities. Customers will also have a choice between flexible enterprise-class virtual environments, including Microsoft’s Hyper-V and VMWare’s vSphere platforms. Cogeco said enterprise […]
Alpha bags Cheetah Technologies
Power solutions vendor Alpha Technologies announced this morning that it had acquired Cheetah Technologies for an undisclosed sum. Alpha said it would keep the doors open on Cheetah’s Pittsburg facility. In addition to serving similar market sectors and mutual customers, the two companies have collaborated on outside plant power supply monitoring for “several decades.” Alpha […]
RCN Business rings up Office Mobility app
RCN Business has launched a new app that lets its business customer employees stay connected with their office phones when they’re on the go. The Business Office Mobility app, which is a new feature from RCN Businesses’ hosted voice and business phone with call manager products, works with both iOS and Android devices. Users need […]