Verizon Communications is fleeing the crufty wireline communications world as fast as it can and has turned once again to Frontier to buy its fiber and telephony assets in Texas, Florida… Read more »
Better routers can turn your glitchy home network into a powerful tool for controlling and optimizing bandwidth. But service providers have been slow to get on the advanced router bandwagon –… Read more »
Verizon’s lackluster growth rebounded in the second quarter as the company added new phone customers. But as in previous quarters, most of its 1.4 million new connections came from connected tablets. Read more »
Even streams of the Netflix kids show Turbo Fast are very slow for Verizon FIOS customers: The ISP continues to decline in Netflix’s monthly speed index. Read more »
Though Verizon had a big quarter for tablet connections, it actually lost feature phone and basic smartphone subscribers in Q1. Those customers are likely going to T-Mobile and arch-rival AT&T… Read more »
Verizon will use OnCue both to add new features and functionality to its FiOS TV platform and to expand FiOS TV beyond Verizon’s own fiber-optic footprint by going over-the-top. Read more »
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303754404579312904182126302 Verizon’s (S VZ) FIOS TV is the first pay TV provider to get a new, customizable kids TV channel dubbed My Nick Jr. from Viacom in the coming months, according… Read more »
The networks would rather continue selling rights to pay-TV providers on a market-by-market basis, as they do now, where they have most of the leverage, than risk facing a buyer with… Read more »
A new report shows us once again that U.S. customers pay more money for less broadband than many other cities in the world. The conclusion is we need more competition. Read more »
Three proposed acquisitions led the news in the third quarter of 2013. Meanwhile, Apple Inc. released two new iPhones and, just as importantly, gave the iOS 7 a major makeover. Read more »