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Telus (Toronto: T.TO) Q4: Broadband, TV services drove 46% increase in profit

Telus' (Toronto: T.TO ) bets on increasing its wireless coverage and continuing to expand its Fiber to the Node (FTTN)-based IPTV service, Optik continued to pay off in Q4 2010. For the fourth

Fixed-mobile substitution: A reversal of fortune for wireline operators

by Martin Scott and Terry Norman, Analysys Mason As the size of Web content downloads increases, mobile customers are increasingly accessing the Internet through the fixed network--which offers fixed

InStat: Speed drove broadband subscriber growth to 763 million in 2010

In 2010, the ongoing need for higher speeds at the home to power up bandwidth-intensive applications (online video, IP telephony and music downloads) drove up broadband subscriber growth to 763

Week in Research: Broadband subscriptions pass 500 million; wholesale VoIP needs to get competitive

Broadband growth on target: The number of broadband subscriptions worldwide reached almost 509 million in the third quarter of 2010, the Broadband Forum announced in its Global Broadband and IPTV

Bell Canada to levy $1 per gigabyte penalty on heavy users

Conveniently hidden in the fine print of its DSL offering page, Bell Canada's (NYSE: BCE ) DSL subscribers will be required to pay $1 per gigabyte if they go over a 300 gigabyte limit each month. As

France's broadband subscribership rose in Q3

Demand for broadband in France continues to be in high demand, with about 360,000 new subscribers signing up for traditional DSL, Fiber to the Home (FTTH) and HFC. In the most recent period ended in

Digital pay TV subscribers drop again in Q3; Verizon, AT&T only bright spots

The third quarter of 2010 was another gloomy one for digital pay-TV operators, who saw new subscriber numbers decline for the second quarter in a row, Strategy Analytics reports in a new study. The

BT could bring FTTX to 17 million homes with the government's help

BT (NYSE: BT ) may be making continual progress with its Fiber to the X (FTTX) network rollout, but the incumbent carrier believes it could reach about 90 percent of the country's homes by 2017 if it

BT (NYSE: BT) beats analyst forecasts, raises Q4 outlook

Even though BT's (NYSE: BT ) revenue dropped 2.8 percent year-on-year in Q3 to GPB 4.97 billion ($ 8.03 billion), the service provider's dedication to cost cutting and broadband growth drove up

Frontier's (NYSE: FTR) Verizon acquisition puts a dent in its Q3 profit

Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR ) felt the sting of its Verizon landline acquisition in Q3 as it incurred $78.5 million in costs related to its acquisition of the RBOC's rural landline operations