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WOW dominates Consumer Reports rankings of top TV, Internet and phone providers
Cable overbuilder WideOpenWest dominated a Consumer Reports survey of the top cable TV, high-speed Internet and phone providers. In addition to being ranked the trop triple-play provider, WOW tied Verizon FiOS as the No. 1 TV provider, and it was ranked the second-best phone provider.
Here's why Verizon should restart its FiOS rollout
It's frustrating for millions of Americans to see Verizon FiOS commercials that whet the appetite for fiber-to-the-home services only to find out the provider has decided not to continue its rollout into their neighborhoods.
5 reasons Verizon needs to restart its FiOS rollout
Verizon had a decent year for FiOS, adding 607,000 Internet subscribers and 553,000 video subscribers to its net total. It's sticking to its plan to build those subscription numbers in the areas where it already has deployed FiOS. But Verizon, which halted new deployments of its fiber product last year, needs to bite the bullet and restart its rollout.
Old networks not the best way to feed new devices or IPTV services
Listening to a technological relic--an old cassette tape--spurred thoughts on how telcos are stuck with 20th-century copper infrastructure in a 21st-century world. The prospects for old technology, in the face of demand for IPTV and other services, aren't pretty.
Verizon affirms North Baltimore won't be getting FiOS
Verizon made it clear to North Baltimore residents during a recent community meeting that it has no plans to bring FiOS service to their area any time soon.
Verizon FiOS to adopt faux a la carte pricing model
It's not quite a la carte, the so-called Holy Grail of subscription TV, but what Verizon is proposing for its FiOS TV service comes close to breaking the logjam of bundled channels currently clogging pay TV lineups. Call it "faux a la carte."
Lowenstein's View: Will wireless compete with broadband?
Susan Crawford paints a bleak picture of the state of U.S. broadband services in her book, " Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age." In it she argues that Internet access is slow and expensive. She is right, to a point. Up until now, the cost of deploying broadband, particularly given U.S. demographics, density, and reliance on private market forces, might have led to a natural monopoly or duopoly. On the landline side it is cable and FiOS winning the battle, and in wireless, Verizon and AT&T have some 75 percent of 4G subscribers.
Verizon's Shammo: We'll convert 300,000 homes to fiber in 2013
Verizon's ongoing plan to migrate customers from its aging copper-based voice and DSL products to fiber-based FiOS will gain momentum in 2013 as it looks to reduce network maintenance costs on problematic copper lines.
NPD: FiOS, U-verse subs spending more on VOD than Comcast, DirecTV, Dish Network customers
The average Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-verse TV subscriber spent $25.29 on video-on-demand movies in 2012, outspending cable and satellite TV subscribers, NPD Group said Monday.
Verizon's Shammo: 50 Mbps is FiOS' sweet speed spot
Fran Shammo, EVP and CFO of Verizon, said on Monday during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference that they don't hear customers demanding Gbps broadband speeds.
