Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
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...
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
FEBRUARY 10, 2010 By Stephen Hardy -- Google has announced plans to build and test open access fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks in “a small number” of trial locations across the United States. The company has issued an RFI seeking communities interested in participating in the trials. Read more....
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
There are "encouraging signs" that competition in the video services market is increasing, said the PSC in its third annual Status of Competition for Video Services in Michigan report. Michigan has seen a two percent growth in the number of cable customers in each of the last two years since the passage of the Michigan Uniform Video...
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Op-ed piece in the Roanoke Times by Wes Rosenbalm, CEO and president of Bristol Virginia Utilities, and FTTH Council member and the first public utility in the United States to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network offering cable, phone and data services. Read more...
Monday, January 25th, 2010
JANUARY 25, 2010 -- Fiber-optic technology proved popular once again in the latest round of U.S. rural broadband stimulus funding. At least nine of the 14 projects announced today will use fiber for middle-mile or last-mile networks. Read more....
Monday, January 11th, 2010
Op-ed: Community-owned broadband is one way to bring fiber to smaller markets, but many states restrict the practice. Researcher Christopher Mitchell argues that it's time for a bit more Roosevelt-style localism in US broadband. Read more....
Friday, January 8th, 2010
A survey by US magazine Consumer Reports has found that the nation's fibre-optic service providers scored highest overall in terms of customer satisfaction for Internet, TV and phone services. Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-verse received top scores for Internet and TV services with respondents, and were found to be among the better phone providers...
Monday, December 7th, 2009
While Verizon gets most of the attention with their $23 billion investment in fiber to the home deployment, a significant chunk of the fiber to the home deployments in this country is being accomplished by roughly 700 smaller rural telcos, co-ops, and municipal operations. Read more....
Monday, December 7th, 2009
NOVEMBER 30, 2009 -- According to a newly published report by Dell’Oro Group, total PON equipment revenues from sales of optical line terminals and optical networking terminals were the highest ever in the third quarter of this year. Such sales grew 8 percent sequentially and 6 percent over the year-ago period. Read more....
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Personalized video, 3D-TV and upstream content is what it's all about. Read more from Stacey Higginbotham at GigOM....
