Frontier Communications Corporation announced that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly dividend on the 11.125% Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, Series A, of $2.78125 per share, payable in cash on December 31, 2015 to holders of record at the close of business December 15, 2015. The Board of Directors also declared a regular […]
Broadband
Briefs: Frontier, Ericsson, NuWaves Engineering, SeaChange, Suddenlink
Frontier Communications has selected Ericsson to provide and integrate a next-generation OSS architecture to improve Frontier’s customer experience, capture new revenues and drive business efficiencies. Frontier will deploy Ericsson Order Care and Ericsson Catalog Manager solutions, part of the Ericsson OSS/BSS Agility Suite, to upgrade components of its back office support systems in Texas, Florida, […]
Century Link Connects 12th CyrusOne Data Center, Fiber Network Now Quarter of a Million Miles
CenturyLink has announced that it has connected to five additional CyrusOne data centers, which now brings its fiber network’s total length to 250,000 miles. Its international transport network is now 300,000 miles. “We’re proud and excited to welcome CenturyLink’s fiber infrastructure in a total of 12 out of the 29 CyrusOne data centers in the […]
Briefs: Anite, Comcast Business, Ericsson, AT&T and Pasternack
Comcast Business today announced that its full portfolio of business services, including its multi-Gigabit Ethernet service, is now available across CenterPoint Commerce & Trade Park. Through this investment, all current and prospective tenants in CenterPoint East and West have immediate access to up to 10 Gigabits-per-second (Gbps) of network performance and services designed to help […]
TWC Beats Projections on Internet Subscribers, Slows Tide of Video Losses
As it waits for regulatory approval of Charter’s acquisition, Time Warner Cable has announced its third quarter earnings. Defying analyst projections, total sales were up 3.6 percent for a total of $5.92 billion. Profit is at $1.62 a share. However, the bigger news in TWC’s cable and internet divisions, which beat expectations on both fronts. […]
Basically Everyone in Cable Just Told the FCC That LTE-U is Bad
The resistance to LTE-Unlicensed technology moving into unlicensed spectrum, currently occupied by Wi-Fi, has been resounding so far throughout the cable industry. But it’s still rare to hear about the kind of who’s who that turned up in FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s office to discuss the potential adverse effects LTE-U could have on critical Wi-Fi […]
Briefs: Nexidia, Harmonic, Linksys, ADTRAN, Eutelsat
Nexidia announced it has hired Tim Murphy as a senior director of product management for the media and entertainment business unit. In this role, Murphy will lead product management for Nexidia Illuminate and Nexidia Dialogue Search, as well as future product offerings from Nexidia Media & Entertainment. Harmonic announced that telecommunications operator Entel Bolivia has […]
Facebook CEO Defends Effort to Expand Internet Access
NEW DELHI (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended his company’s contentious efforts to expand Internet access in the developing world during his second visit to India this year. The company’s free platform offering a basic level of Internet access via Android devices has been introduced to 24 countries and has amassed about 15 million […]
Briefs: VT iDirect, Broadcom, ORBCOMM, Marvell
VT iDirect, Inc. announced that it will begin the final leg of a rollout program of its iDirect Velocity ground infrastructure platform to support Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite fleet. iDirect will start over-the-air testing of iDirect Velocity on the Inmarsat-5 F3 satellite. The initiative follows the successful Factory Acceptance Testing and Over-the-Satellite Acceptance Testing (OSAT) […]
How Comcast Wants to Meter the Internet
NEW YORK (AP) — This year marked a turning point for Comcast, the cable giant: It now has more Internet than TV customers. And it’s trying out how to charge you for the amount of data you use, much the way Verizon and AT&T do for wireless customers. Why risk doing something that upsets customers? […]