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Partners are Where You Find Them
An interesting new partnership has been formed between Windstream and Colquitt Electric Membership Corp. of Georgia to build a rural fiber network. Windstream is a large price-cap telco that recently...
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Network Outages Go Global
On August 30, CenturyLink experienced a major network outage that lasted for over five hours and which disrupted CenturyLink customers nationwide as well as many other networks. What was unique about...
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The FCC and Broadband Outages
Comcast had a widespread network outage in early November. The problems started in San Francisco and spread the next day to Chicago, Philadelphia, parts of New Jersey, and three other states. The...
View ArticleNational Broadband Growth is Slowing
Leichtman Research recently released the broadband customer statistics for the end of the fourth quarter of 2021. The numbers show that broadband growth has slowed significantly for the sixteen largest...
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Can the Big Telcos Turn the Corner with Fiber?
I was asked an interesting question recently: will fiber help the big telcos turn the corner to success? It’s a good question when looking at telcos like Frontier, Windstream, Lumen, and any others who...
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Lumen’s Fiber Path Forward
Lumen is taking a different path forward than the other big telcos. AT&T continues to build fiber in selected clusters, mostly in cities, rather than concentrate on building entire markets....
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A Last Gasp at Regulating Copper
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission recently ordered a series of public hearings to investigate the quality of service on the CenturyLink copper networks. The hearings were prompted by a...
View ArticleShould We Trust the Companies that Created the Digital Divide?
For those of you who don’t know Bruce Kushnick, he’s been tracking the promises made and broken by Verizon since the 1990s and written extensively on the issue. His latest article is “NTIA: Require...
View ArticleThe Public Loves Fiber
The latest Customer Satisfaction Index is out from ACSI, which measures the public satisfaction of a wide range of U.S. industries and institutions. The survey this year continued to show that the...
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Another Lumen Reinvention?
Lumen has been the hardest large big telco to figure out. Verizon, AT&T, Frontier, Windstream, and others have clearly decided that building fiber is the future path to survival. Consequently, the...
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