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Industry News

FCC Puts Regulation Cart Ahead of Services Horse

Posted: 35 min 28 sec ago

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to know how it should regulate services delivered over broadband connections other than Internet access. Such services can include IPTV, home security monitoring, telemedicine, and remote...

PC Magazine: The Fastest ISPs in the U.S. 2010

Posted: 9 weeks 3 days ago

When it comes down to what type of broadband connection is fastest, the perception is that fiber-to-the-premises services, exemplified by Verizon FiOS, sets the gold standard and that if you can't get FTTP, go with cable and lastly DSL. Read...

BBB Faults Time Warner, Cox Fiber Ads

Posted: 17 weeks 1 day ago

Consumers have tended to take claims of transmission speeds made by telecommunications companies with proverbial grains of salt, and now the Better Business Bureau is attempting to make the claims more accurate by asking Time Warner Cable and Cox...

Attention Google Applicants: You Can Build FTTH Yourselves

Posted: 20 weeks 2 days ago

Craig Settles has an answer for the 1,095 communities that are not going to get Google to build a next-generation fiber optic network in their area once Google chooses a few winners in the coming weeks. Don’t pout, organize. Read more in...

FCC to Propose Higher Broadband Speeds

Posted: 28 weeks 1 day ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government wants to set minimum home Internet speeds to make the United States the world's largest market of high-speed Internet users, the Federal Communications Commission's chairman said on Tuesday. Read more...

Member News

MEDIA ADVISORY: EPB to Make Announcement at 2010 FTTH Conference & Expo, Monday, September 13

Posted: 1 day 3 hours ago

EPB, the municipal electric utility in Chattanooga, TN, will make a major announcement about a groundbreaking new development to EPB’s fiber-to-the-home network, which already offers the fastest speeds in the US today. EPB’s network...

Clearfield Launches ‘The Fiber Color Pages’

Posted: 2 weeks 2 days ago

MINNEAPOLIS (August 17, 2010) — Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLFD) has launched The Fiber Color Pages, the first in a series of monthly online commentaries to focus on various issues and advancements in fiber management. The first feature,...

Enablence brings industry-leading technology, thought leadership, to 2010 FTTH Conference and Expo

Posted: 3 weeks 3 days ago

OTTAWA, CANADA--(Marketwire - Aug. 9, 2010) - Enablence Technologies Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ENA) Enablence Technologies Inc.

ATMC Awarded $16 Million Grant to Bring High Speed Internet Services

Posted: 4 weeks 1 day ago

Shallotte, NC – Allen Russ, CEO/General Manager of ATMC, announced today that ATMC has been awarded a $16 million grant/loan to provide an all fiber network to deliver affordable, reliable high-speed internet and video services to...

BVU Awarded More than 28 Million Dollars in Grant

Posted: 7 weeks 2 days ago

Bristol, July 2, 2010- NTIA, (National Telecommunications and Information Administration), announced today that BVU was awarded a grant of $22,698,010.00. The VTC, (Virginia Tobacco Commission), has supplied the matching portion of $5,659,503.00 for...

Council News

Fiber to the Home Industry to Gather Next Month in Las Vegas for Annual Conference & Expo

Posted: 2 weeks 2 days ago

Year's Biggest FTTH Event to Include Extensive Learning Program and Latest Broadband Technologies, Services and Applications on Display (LAS VEGAS, NV) - Dozens of workshops and other learning sessions, a hands-on "Fiber Zone" and more...

Broadband Subscribers Continue to Give High Ratings to End-to-End Fiber Services

Posted: 3 weeks 22 hours ago

(WASHINGTON) - Consumer appreciation of fiber to the home (FTTH) services is steadily growing as satisfaction rates among those who subscribe to all-fiber networks continue to outpace those for other broadband access technologies such as cable modem...

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