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Taking stock of 2011's top mergers & acquisitions

December 14, 2011 | By
What were the most important mergers and acquisitions in 2011? This year was a wild ride for the wireline segment of the telecom industry, with carriers and service providers jockeying for position

Is cable the right complement to Verizon's FiOS network?

December 9, 2011 | By
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) President and CEO Lowell McAdam made it clear this week during the UBS Warburg conference that they have a set a goal to where they ultimately want to reach in building out FiOS

Keeping IPv6 on the radar is critical in 2012

December 2, 2011 | By
Where does IPv6 stand in the last month of 2011? Adoption of the addressing protocol is now a necessity thanks to the depletion of new IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses in April of this

Profiling wireline's worst-ever CEOs

November 22, 2011 | By
This holiday week, we invite you to take a break from yet another Detroit Lions football game, parades and turkey and take a gander at the wireline segment of the telecom industry's worst CEOs ever.

Service providers take advantage of the emerging wireless backhaul opportunity

November 14, 2011 | By
This week we are releasing a new eBook, "Telco Backhaul Strategies: Wireline wholesale carriers feed off the wireless backhaul bonanza." In this eBook, FierceTelecom examines the challenges and

Cloud service acquisitions gain momentum, and everyone's jumping on board

November 9, 2011 | By
Monday's $167 million purchase of managed services provider MindSHIFT by electronics retailer Best Buy indicated a seismic shift in the perception and popularity of the cloud services concept. Best

Pinpointing 2011's top 10 competitive provider executives

November 2, 2011 | By
I'd like to call your attention to our 2011 top 10 competitive provider leaders feature, in which FierceTelecom profiles the executives changing the dynamics of the competitive telecom industry.

Don't need broadband? Think again as providers look to educate consumers

October 28, 2011 | By
A couple of years ago I was having dinner with my uncle during a stopover in San Francisco. The conversation, as it is wont to do, turned eventually to the Internet, specifically to Facebook, which

Where does home monitoring fit in the telco ecosystem?

October 20, 2011 | By
Behind all the bluster and speculation about drops in video subscribers and service providers' new dependence on broadband subscribers is a quieter market niche that IPTV providers and cable MSOs are

Service integration is key to telco broadband subscriber gains

October 12, 2011 | By
When CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) completed its acquisition of Qwest this past April, one of the glaring shortcomings that emerged in its Q2 2011 earnings report was a drop in broadband subscribers.
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