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BT holds the line in fiscal Q4, doubles fiber customer base to 1.5 million

BT's flat key revenue measure and fiscal fourth quarter revenues of just £4.8 million ($7.32 million), down 2 percent, didn't dampen spirits at the telecom, which noted that its fiber customer base doubled to more than 1.5 million subscribers.

Google Fiber names Gladstone, Mo. as its next FTTP destination

Google Fiber has added Gladstone as the latest municipality in the Kansas City area to get its 1 Gbps fiber to the premises service.

AT&T ramps up North Carolina wireline, wireless workforce

AT&T is looking to add 250 more new members to its workforce in North Carolina who will serve about 30 sites to fulfill growing demand for wireline and wireless services.

Frontier's Wilderotter: 80% of our customers use 6 Mbps

Frontier Communications told investors on Tuesday that since most of its customers are in rural areas where there's less population density, a 6 Mbps DSL connection is sufficient.

ABC could gain new benefits by bringing targeted ads to mobile devices

As ABC debuts its ABC Now video app that lets cable viewers in New York and Philadelphia watch live programming on their iPad, the next logical step would be deliver hyper-targeted ads to these users.

Alpheus Communications deepens Ethernet reach into Mexico via Marcatel

Alpehus Communications is giving service provider and enterprise customers that need access to Mexico an additional connectivity option via a new Network to Network Interface (NNI) agreement with Monterey, Mexico-based Marcatel.

Aereo changes subscription tune on eve of Boston launch

Only two days before the debut of its service in Boston, Aereo said on Monday that it is no longer going to give customers the option of paying $1 for a daily pass or $80 for an annual service subscription.

Infonetics: Comcast and Verizon dominate North America VoIP services market

Comcast and Verizon continue to be the VoIP providers of choice for businesses, according to Infonetics' annual North America Business VoIP Service Leadership Scorecard.

Telus wireline revenues rise to $1.3 billion on strong data, IPTV service growth

Telus reported that while first-quarter 2013 external wireline revenues rose CAD 36 million (USD 35.6 million) or 2.9 percent year-over-year to CAD 1.8 billion (USD 1.78 billion) due to an uptick in data service revenue, those results were partially offset by expected declines in legacy consumer and business voice revenues.

For Videotron's Morgan, wireline voice not an afterthought

To some industry observers, wireline voice is about as relevant today as two cans tied with a string. That's not the case for Sian Morgan, senior director of telephony and multimedia networks for Canadian cable operator Videotron. She talked with Jim Barthold about where the service, which launched in 2004, is going.