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Survey: 66% of consumers happy with their pay-TV subscription
Are you happy with your pay-TV service? Well, according to a new American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) released by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, 66 percent of U.S. Read more >>
Cyan names telecom industry veteran Mark Floyd as CEO
Cyan has appointed Mark Floyd as its chief executive officer, in a move the company said will help it take advantage of new international growth opportunities.
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BT employs Equinix data centers for its Radianz cloud-based service
BT (NYSE: BT) is leveraging Equinix's (Nasdaq: EQIX) data centers to deliver its cloud-based Radianz Venue targeting financial-trading companies with a set of hosting and low-latency Read more >>
Consolidated Communications raises cash to complete SureWest acquisition
Consolidated Communications (Nasdaq: CNSL) plans to generate new funds to wrap up its pending acquisition of fellow independent ILEC SureWest (Nasdaq: SURW). The Mattoon, Ill.-based service provider, Read more >>
House panel to examine broadband stimulus spending
A congressional panel is scheduled to meet this morning to discuss broadband loans and grants programs bankrolled by the 2009 federal economic stimulus package.
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Terremark ups its North American cloud capacity in the Denver market
Terremark, Verizon's (NYSE: VZ) cloud and data-center subsidiary, has responded to the need for increased cloud-service capacity by U.S.-based businesses by implementing a node of its Enterprise Read more >>
EarthLink addresses business cloud security with new workspace service suite
EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK) is giving its business customers another option to secure their internal applications in the cloud with the launch of its Cloud Workspace service, the company announced Read more >>
Zayo opens new low-latency Chicago to Seattle route
Zayo has added a new route between Seattle and Chicago, giving its financial, content and wholesale customers a new option for low latency services. Already providing a number of network services Read more >>
Who are the highest paid CEOs in the cable and satellite industries?
Like the traditional telecom industry, there is no shortage of cable and satellite CEOs receiving multimillion-dollar compensation packages. However, in 2011 a number of key cable and satellite Read more >>
Lightower expands network, colocation presence in Providence, R.I.
Lightower is giving its carrier and business customers in Providence, R.I., more options with the addition of 21 miles of new fiber routes that will serve the Pawtucket and Seekonk communities. Read more >>
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 Read more >>
Overture enhances European and APAC sales teams with four new regional offices
Overture's appointment of new sales leads to oversee four key EMEA-APAC regions--including India, Italy, Malaysia and Russia--instantly gives the vendor locally-based support to serve new growth Read more >>
PSTN-to-IP migration must be done with care, say Verizon, AT&T
AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) are clearly two service providers making a migration away from the PSTN to all IP, but the move has to carefully take into account a number of key technical, Read more >>
MTS Allstream earnings reach $53M on IPTV, business services increase
MTS Allstream (Toronto: MBT.TO) reported that earnings rose to CAD 53.1 million (USD 52.9 million), up from CAD 43.1 million (USD 43.0 million), in the same period a year ago with a 19 percent jump Read more >>
BT's cost-cutting, broadband service drive 3% earnings rise in fiscal Q4
BT's (NYSE: BT) focus on reducing costs and growing its broadband base put the UK incumbent provider on steady ground in its fiscal fourth quarter of 2011. For Q4, the service provider reported that Read more >>
