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Mike Dano600 MHz incentive auction channel repack offers risk and reward for tower companies
Building a 20,000-pound antenna and then hoisting it up a 2,000-foot tower sounds downright crazy in the current mobile-dominated network landscape, where even 150-foot-tall macro cell towers are yielding to small cells and other less conspicuous deployments.AT&T, Frontier, others accept $1.5B in CAF-II funding despite FCC's changing broadband definition
Ten vendors have accepted a total of $1.5 billion in funding for the second phase of the Connect America Fund (CAF-II), an FCC reform initiative that promises to bring broadband to an estimated 23 million Americans in rural uncovered areas as the service has been deemed a necessity in today's technology environment.Concealed towers and small cells: Safety and regulation in a growing industry
In the past, camouflaged towers might have called up thoughts of forlorn fake evergreens sticking out of the surrounding scenery like a sore thumb, but concealment is becoming more popular, more artistic and more necessary to infiltrate populated areas that may need a boost to coverage.
EXFO's portable 100G field tester meets metro networks, data center interconnect needs
EXFO has introduced a series of enhancements to its NetBlazer family -- the FTB-890 and FTB-890NGE high-speed portable field testers -- to address service providers' 100G deployments for metro networks and data center interconnection services. Each of these platforms can test traffic speeds ranging from 64 Kbps to 100G. Housed in the FTB-1 Pro platform, the FTB-890 and FTB-890NGE NetBlazer Series of modules offer complete support of native CFP4, QSFP+/QSFP28 and SFP+ transceiver interfaces to turn-up and troubleshoot 10M-to-100G networks.
Google Fiber's rise is changing the utility pole access regime
Google Fiber's plans to sell 1 Gbps service for $70 clearly has forced incumbent telcos and cable operators like AT&T and Comcast to rethink their broadband service strategies.
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Cable One in negotiations on 'hundreds of towers' as it looks to expand backhaul business
While it services just over 100 towers today, Cable One is looking to aggressively expand its cellular backhaul business, said the MSO's CEO, Thomas Might. "We have 25 to 30 towers...
AT&T, Verizon fiber build acceleration helps drive big 3Q for Dycom
Dycom reported $664.6 million in contract revenue for its fiscal third quarter, well ahead of Wall Street estimates and the $492.4 million it reported for the year-ago quarter. The company contributed much of that growth to top customers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon ramping up wireline deployments to meet increasing network capacity demands.
Westell's 4Q revenue hit by industry's move away from standalone DAS conditioners
Although Westell's fourth-quarter revenue was up 12 percent annually, the company's In-Building Wireless (IBW) segment had its weakest quarter of the fiscal year, which the company attributed to an industry shift away from standalone DAS conditioners toward integrating those functions into larger network elements.
AT&T sets common broadband, DirectTV installation process goals
AT&T may have set DirecTV as its new video delivery platform, but in order to cross sell customers a suite of complementary wireline broadband and wireless services, the telco is looking to bring commonality to its installation processes.
Charter to focus overbuild strategy on telco competition
Consolidated uses M&A to further fiber network footprint, respond to business, wholesale opportunities
Consolidated Communications isn't afraid to make a deal to purchase another company, especially if that service provider can help it bolster its network footprint.
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Berg Insight said Europe's smart home market lagged North America by two to three years in terms of penetration and market maturity at the end of 2015, with an installed base of 5.3 million smart homes compared to 12.7 million in North America.
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