20.10.2008
Bye bye public property pay phones
Pay phones may soon join the crank phone and pulse dialing in the dustbin of telecommunications history, if trends in San Diego and other areas continue.Coronado tore out more than half of the pay phones it had on city property. Other small municipalities around San Diego area are getting rid of... |
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13.08.2009
Cable & Wireless goes global with Ethernet
Looking to sate the desires of multi-national corporations (MNCs) for consistent Ethernet connectivity, Cable&Wireless is making its Ethernet service suite available across 31 network sites in the U.S., Asia, India and Europe. Offering speeds of up to 1 Gbps, Cable & Wireless will offer its... |
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30.05.2008
Cable & Wireless makes bid for Thus
It’s not exactly a David & Goliath scenario, but Cable & Wireless’ rush for troubled Scottish telecom Thus is a pretty good story nonetheless, involving not just a battle of companies, but a battle of personalities as well. Needless to say the British press is watching this one... |
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02.09.2008
Cable & Wireless targets Asia for expansion
British telecom Cable & Wireless has its sights set on huge growth in Asia and the Middle East this year and expects to double its revenue in the region, CEO Jim Marsh told the South China Morning Post.Tech spending in the region has been solid and is projected to grow as more users come... |
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02.11.2009
Cable & Wireless to put demerger back on table
As it gets ready to report its financial results for the first half of 2009 this Thursday, Cable & Wireless says it will reignite its effort to demerge its U.K. and international businesses. According to a report in Financial Times, the service provider wants to hatch a plan to list its... |
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08.12.2008
Cable companies paint their future in a down economy
At a Wall Street investor`s conference Monday, Time Warner Cable and Comcast were painting a relatively upbeat picture, but fessed up that they might end up with declining revenues in certain areas.Time Warner Cable (TWC) CEO and President Glenn Britt was promoting the view that cable TV will... |
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24.06.2008
Cable companies run fiber fib ad blitz in fight with Verizon’s FiOS
Comcast and its cable allies have lined up a series of broadcast ads belittling Verizon`s vaunted FiOS network, claiming to have a larger fiber-optic network. What the ads don`t point out is that while fiber is used in the network, it doesn`t go to the home as is the case in most FiOS... |
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27.06.2008
Cable customer care leaves room for improvement, execs say
The cable industry “has to get better at customer care,” as telcos continue to push into providing TV and broadband, Comcast Cable COO Steve Burke said during the opening session of SCTE Cable-Tec Expo in Philadelphia. “We have a long way to go,” he said.And, he said, the... |
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06.04.2009
Cable cut clobbers London
BT said 50,000 addresses in parts of east London lost phone and Internet service over the weekend after damage in a tunnel on Saturday. The cable cut also caused road congestion as traffic lights connected to the network were cut off from the master traffic computer system.The company says... |
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11.12.2008
Cable cut disrupts Embarq service in Nevada
Construction workers laying a new sewer line in Las Vegas accidentally cut fiber and copper cables owned by Embarq, triggering a network outage Wednesday morning that affected at least 60,000 customers. The problem probably will result in lingering service disruptions for the next day or... |
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