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Happy Thanksgiving

November 21, 2012 | By

I just wanted to wish all of you a safe and happy Thanksgiving Day.

Welcome to the Best of FierceTelecom 2012

November 21, 2012 | By

In our special Best of FierceTelecom 2012 issue, we highlight some of our most popular, most informative and most interesting special reports and interviews that we compiled during the past year.

Sandy's new challenges reflect resiliency of traditional and next-generation services

November 20, 2012 | By

As the Northeast continues to recover from the effects of Hurricane Sandy, critics have been quick to point out how vulnerable the communications infrastructure is to giant, unprecedented superstorms. Getting lost in the storm of "what-ifs," however, are the examples and data that showed how resilient and adaptive that infrastructure, and the people responsible for it, could be.

Looking at 10 innovators who changed the course of telecom

November 15, 2012 | By

I would like to call your attention to our second annual "Innovators who changed the course of telecom" series. With the consumer's reliance on gaming consoles and wireless devices as well as their expectation of always-available high speed Internet, it's easy to forget the many innovators who laid the foundations that make these applications a reality.

Profiling leadership of the top competitive providers

October 22, 2012 | By

FierceTelecom is taking the time to look at emerging executives in the competitive telecom service provider space in our annual Competitive Provider Leaders feature. As you'll see, we continue to track the ongoing consolidation of the Competitive Local Exchange Company (CLEC) industry.

CLECs to ILECs: Don't hang up your copper networks!

October 15, 2012 | By

Traditional ILECs may see their copper facilities as nothing more than an aging asset of the legacy voice-only service age, but for competitive telcos serving the business market, copper is still very much in fashion.

What lies beyond 100G?

October 3, 2012 | By

The increased bandwidth demand which service providers in the wireline and wireless industries face is driving a growing number of large incumbents and even competitive telcos to make a migration towards 100G in their core backbone and metro networks.

Boosting business services: How the FCC's CLEC decision affects competition

September 20, 2012 | By

On Monday, the Federal Communications Commission approved a request to grant cable operators limited forbearance from Section 652(b) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, freeing MSOs like Time Warner Cable, Comcast, and Cox Communications to purchase CLECs. Is the business services segment set to explode?

No issue on Monday

August 31, 2012 | By

Due to the holiday, FierceTelecom will not publish on Monday, but we'll be back in your inbox Tuesday morning.

Why bother with fiber? Here's a few reasons

August 23, 2012 | By

A recent Forbes column pointed out that Google's FTTP build in Kansas City was ambitious, expensive, and potentially a money-loser for the Internet search giant. But what is the true cost of not building it?

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