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No issue on Monday

Just wanted to wish you all a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend. Due to the holiday, FierceTelecom will not publish Monday, but we'll be back in your inbox Tuesday morning. Also, I wanted to take

AT&T's Digital Life could make its wireline broadband base even stickier

AT&T's (NYSE: T) recent launch of its Digital Life home control and monitoring service illustrates the telco's need to generate new wireline and wireless revenue streams. As noted by

Failures and triumphs on the road to broadband ubiquity

It's been an interesting year for broadband in the United States. While new networks are being built out or have already been completed and services turned up, some builds haven't even gotten off

Sizing up Connection-Oriented Ethernet approaches: A new eBook from FierceTelecom

There's no question that Ethernet has become the accepted service of choice for data that service providers are using for their business and wholesale customers. But an emerging group of vendors,

Welcome 2012's wholesale service provider leaders

As we begin our coverage of this year's COMPTEL PLUS--a trade show this week in San Francisco that will focus selling wholesale services to competitive providers and increasingly wireless

IPv6 security a growing concern as Blue Coat, Akamai note malware, exploits

According to some of the equipment vendors and networking providers out there, 2012 is the year for IPv6 adoption. In many ways that's true, as enterprise IT departments last year faced up to the

No issue on Friday

Just wanted to wish you all a happy and safe Easter holiday. Due to the holiday, FierceTelecom will not publish on Friday, but we'll be back in your inbox on Monday morning. Thanks for reading.--Sean

Detailed, accessible infrastructure maps can aid smarter broadband deployments

I started writing full-time about wireline telecom around the same time that the federal government's broadband stimulus plan was announced, in early 2009. One of the first pieces of data I went

Zayo's AboveNet acquisition is all about quenching the metro fiber thirst

Zayo Group went to the acquisition well again by making its 19th and 20th deal in the span of its short five years--first acquiring AboveNet on Monday and then, with the ink still wet on the

Improving the customer experience: a new eBook from FierceTelecom

What are carriers doing to manage the customer experience? The increase in available technology to track and analyze the way customers are using telecom services, as well as how they are interacting