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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 today's 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 telecom's equivalent of a supercar in a gridlocked neighborhood. Turning off the broadband connections into people's homes would be another matter entirely. Without that connectivity, entire populations would not be able to work, educate their children, se...
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 is Creating the New Underclass." We discuss what she saw during that tour, what is and isn't workin...
Optical components maker II-VI beat Wall Street's 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 acquisition at a much quicker rate than expected. "We are well ahead of our plan to achieve our 3-year $15...