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Swisscom offers free TV for any of its DSL customers
Swisscom on Monday launched a new promotional deal in which any of its existing DSL customers will get a free introductory TV service package.
Telefonica Germany to offer 50 Mbps DSL tier
Telefonica Germany is the latest service provider to jump aboard the higher speed DSL service train, announcing on Tuesday that it will deliver an up to 50 Mbps speed option for its O2 broadband customers.
AT&T to expand U-verse to 33M homes, increase broadband speeds to 75 Mbps
AT&T said it plans to expand its U-verse TV, Internet and VoIP phone service to 33 million homes and increase the speeds of its Internet product to up to 75 Mbps.
ASSIA unveils 100 Mbps vectoring management product
Dynamic spectrum management (DSM) software tools provider Assia has introduced a DSL network management system that it said can manage simultaneously vectored and non-vectored lines "to deliver the fastest possible speeds and to achieve the highest return on investment in meeting consumer demand for high-bandwidth services."
Genesis Technical says it can deliver 400 Mbps over existing copper
Genesis Technical Systems said that its new technology, DSL Rings, can deliver 400 Mbps speeds over existing copper infrastructure "at a fraction of the cost of fiber-to-the-home or fiber-to-the-premise."
Frontier to serve up higher broadband speeds in West Va.
Frontier Communications on Monday said it plans to start delivering up to 25 Mbps DSL services to 405,000 West Virginia residential and business customers.
FairPoint extends DSL broadband to 14 more New Hampshire towns
FairPoint on Wednesday hatched a plan to expand broadband availability in 14 towns in New Hampshire, a move that will bring service to about 1,845 homes and businesses.
British cool to 'superfast' broadband services, while U.S. market smothering DSL
Things are apparently different on the other side of the ocean when it comes to "superfast broadband services." Even though 60 percent of U.K. premises had access to high-speed broadband, only 7 percent of Internet connections were being used, according to Ofcom.
DSL vendor ASSIA grabs first Chinese customer, China Telecom Jiangsu
Word that ASSIA, a vendor that provides dynamic spectrum management (DSM) software tools for DSL networks, has signed China Telecom Jiangsu as its first Chinese customer shows that the Chinese are anxious to move ahead with broadband over existing copper networks.
ABI Research: FTTH costs giving telcos pause
Even though Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) networks bring blazing speed and a fat pipe on which to offer new, competitive services like IPTV, telcos worldwide are increasingly finding themselves in a financial quandary when deciding to quit copper and move to fiber, according to ABI Research's Broadband CPE report.
