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Operator seeing 25% gross broadband adds come from Fios zones as company sees an absolute explosion of broadband subscriber activity in its more rural - and underpenetrated - Suddenlink footprint.

Switch off todays 5G networks and most of us would barely notice. Despite telco enthusiasm, and some government panic about letting Chinese vendors anywhere near such a critically important technology, 5G remains a pointlessly fast luxury for the cashed-up. In a pandemic that has confined millions to their homes, it is even less useful – telecoms equivalent of a supercar in a gridlocked neighborhood. Turning off the broadband connections into peoples homes would be another matter entirely. Wi...

Q4 not bad either with channel bookings accounting for more than 35% of the full-year total.

Podcast – The Divide: Dr. Nicol Turner Lee on the digitally invisible 2/11/2021 On this episode of The Divide, we hear from Dr. Nicol Turner Lee, a senior fellow in governance studies and the director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institute. As a researcher and policy advocate, Dr. Turner Lee went on a ten-city tour investigating the digital divide in the US up close, which she writes about in her forthcoming book, "Digitally Invisible: How the Internet i...

Optical components maker II-VI beat Wall Streets earnings per share estimate for the fourth quarter in a row. The company reported earnings of $0.73 a share on revenue of $787 million during the second quarter of its fiscal year 2021. About 62% of its revenue came from the communications market, where it sells a wide range of products – things like optical amplifiers, subsystems and coherent optics – to vendors like Ciena and ZTE. The company is realizing gains from its 2019 Finisar acquisi...

In a mixed quarter, Cisco reported flat revenues, but it beat earnings estimates and had a bright spot in software and security sales.

Cienas Jamie Jefferies could not have picked a more interesting time to move back to the UK. After an eight-year sales stint for the optical equipment maker in New York, the British executive returned home in October 2018 to run Cienas EMEA business. Two months later, a US campaign against Huawei went into overdrive with the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, the Chinese vendors chief financial officer, in Canada. Since then, the normally staid telecom industry has been rocked by geopolitics as Europe st...

Telekom Deutschland, for an undisclosed fee, has chosen the Finnish vendor as a "long-term strategic partner" to transform its optical core network into a "service-centric platform that can easily scale to meet Industry 4.0 demands." According to the official statement, Nokias kit will enable "optimized performance and a consistent customer experience" across Germany. Telekom Deutschland, it adds, hopes to simplify and streamline operational tasks through automation and make more efficient use ...

And what might Amazons LEO satellites mean for 5G operators? "I think there are partnerships to be had for Kuiper," said Darren Achord, head of public policy for Amazons Project Kuiper. "We look forward to partnering with a lot of the providers out there." Achords pitch for Project Kuiper (pronounced "ky-per") was mainly targeted at members of the incoming Biden administration. Achord spoke about the companys satellite broadband initiative at the Incompas Policy Summit this week, a trade assoc...

Bezos says move will let him pour more energy into projects such as the Day 1 Fund, The Washington Post and the space-faring Blue Origin program.