Archive for December, 2005

COURT rejects Time Warner in NKC case

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Kansas City Business Journal - Kansas City,MO,USA … on Thursday refused to revive a cable television company’s federal lawsuit against North Kansas City for planning a city-owned fiber-optic network capable of …

PEOPLE to Watch in 2006

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Unstrung … Verizon is spending billions to upgrade its copper wires to fiber optics, a move that some analysts see as too slow and too costly. …

VERIZON Adds Sinclair Stations to FiOS TV

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Multichannel News (subscription) - New York,NY,USA is adding to its lineup of TV programming for its Verizon FiOS TV fiber-to-the home-based video service, this time inking a multiyear retransmission-consent …

VENEZUELA power company to offer broadband

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

United Press International - USA … million customers. The broadband project involves an investment of $132 million and installation of about 5,600 miles of fiber optics.

SINCLAIR Announces Analogue and Digital Carriage Agreement With …

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA … Tampa and Baltimore are the initial Sinclair markets in which Verizon plans to launch its FIOS-TV service as a competitor to cable and satellite providers of …

SOUTHWEST Virginia gets $6 million grant for fiber-optic cable

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Roanoke Times - Roanoke,VA,USA … The fiber optics will connect existing data networks in the region, bringing high-speed connections to an area of the state that’s looking to attract …

2005 Top Ten: Signs of Recovery

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Light Reading - USA … Up Covaro.) The activity at the customer premises suggests that the services we’ve been hearing about for eons — IPTV, wireless everything, fiber-fed access …

SCHUMER gets behind-the-scenes tour

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Glens Falls Post-Star - Glens Falls,NY,USA … With fiber optics, it would take three minutes to upload one drawing of a set for “Phantom of the Opera,” he said. Now, it takes four hours. …

TIMELINE of Qwest woes

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA … Feb. 11: Qwest cooperates with government subpoena concerning its swap of fiber-optic network capacity with Global Crossing Ltd. …

BROOKS Tropicals may be a multinational, but employees know how to …

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA … The Homestead and Belize operations are connected by fiber optics and satellite; they meet once or twice a day by video camera. …