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AT&T said just within that last month that it had amassed 100,000 IPTV subscribers and was aiming for 10,000 installations per week by the end of this year. A large part of its ability to speed up deployment lies in the ability of its field technicians to continue to reduce the average time per installation. […]

U.K.telco giant BT has turned its own corporate strategy to reduce carbon dioxide emission into an environmental sustainability audit service for its corporate customers. The audit process is based on a questionnaire that BT developed in-house, and it’s intended to produce a series of environmentally progressive recommendations that its customers can act on.

Environmental sustainability still […]

U.K. telco giant BT said it is opening a research and development center in China as part of its effort to expand into the Chinese market. Foreign telcos can’t own network operators in China, and many Western companies once feared they could have technology innovations stolen if they pursued cutting-edge telecom work in China.

However, partnering […]

Verizon Communications took the first step toward converging its FiOS broadband service with mobile capabilities from Verizon Wireless, allowing FiOS customer with VZW service to check their home e-mail on their mobile phones. This isn’t necessarily a ground-breaking capability technically speaking, but is an example of how telcos are starting to take baby steps to […]

The U.S. Department of Justice, echoing a recommendation from the Federal Trade Commission earlier this summer, said it opposes the creation of net neutrality policy that would bar service providers from offering different broadband access pricing tiers.

Net neutrality proponents believe telcos and cable TV providers offering broadband will use those tiers to offer well-to-do customers, […]

Independent telco Windstream apparently has moved to lay off at least 360 employees in three states, according to local news outlets in Kansas, Nebraska and North Carolina. The carrier, based in Little Rock, Ark., recently closed its acquisition of CT Communications, based in Concord, N.C.

About 150 of those layoffs will occur at the former CT […]

This morning, some big news comes out of the small, but much publicized, Vudu, whose long-awaited TV set-top box is capable of downloading movies from the Web to TVs in consumer homes. It’s not a new idea. In fact, it sounds a lot like a service Netflix launched recently, close to what Apple is trying […]

As Verizon Communications increases the pace at which it’s rolling out its FiOS fiber network upgrades, competitive carriers are renewing the fight at the Federal Communications Commission to force Verizon to share its fiber capacity in the same way it has been forced to share it copper capacity. The Washington Post reports that 22 CLECs […]