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Frontier keeps broadband growth coming
While broadband subscriber growth is slowing for many telcos, that does not appear to be the case for now for Frontier Communications (formerly Citizens Communications). The Stamford, Conn.-based Read more...
California Dem wants USF accounting from telcos
With AT&T and Verizon delivering strong second quarters and Embarq poised to release its results after market close today, you knew there had to be some bad news for telcos on the horizon. It Read more...
Will Windstream enter M&A fray?
During the first-quarter earnings call for Windstream Communications earlier this month, CEO Jeff Gardner suggested that Windstream was open to buying other companies if the deals allowed the telco Read more...
Citizens Communications posts 33% Q1 profit drop
First quarter net income for Connecticut-based independent telco Citizens Communications slid about 33 percent from the first quarter last year to $45.6 million this year. However, last year's first Read more...
Citizens to buy back $200 million in stock
Independent telco Citizens Communications is re-purchasing about $200 million in stock, the company announced after reporting fourth-quarter 2007 earnings this week. Citizens saw revenue climb about Read more...
Verizon's Strigl counters AT&T's 'softness'
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson sent telecom stocks tumbling earlier this week when he told attendees of CitiGroup's Global Entertainment, Media and Telecommunications Conference that AT&T was Read more...
Citizens disputes consumer market doldrums
Citizens Communications CEO Maggie Wilderotter spoke at the same CitiGroup conference as Crowe, which was also the same venue in which AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson made comments about the softness Read more...
Comporium to acquire Citizens Telephone
In a nod toward small-scale rural telco consolidation, Rock Hill, N.C.-based Comporium Communications is acquiring fellow North Carolina company Citizens Telephone Co. (not to be confused with the Read more...
TDS profit triples, Citizens' down
TDS Telecom, the Chicago-based independent telco that also owns U.S. Cellular, reported quarterly net income of about $231.7 million, more than triple last year's third quarter figure of around $75 Read more...
Citizens to cut 120 jobs
Citizens Communications, based in Stamford, Conn., is the latest independent telco to show that it's not immune to the cost cuts and job reductions that larger telcos often face. The company said it Read more...