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11/08/2012
Deals Of The Day 11/08/12
The West Virginia Public Service Commission (PSC) released $29.1 million to Frontier Communications from two separate escrow accounts, comprising $23.7 million from a service-quality escrow account and another $5.4 million from a broadband escrow account. The PSC established the two escrow accounts in 2010 as part of Frontier’s acquisition of Verizon markets in that state. […]
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11/07/2012
Inside The Beltway 11/07/12
Following a FCC Enforcement Bureau investigation pursuant to customer complaints that began in 2009, AT&T will pay $700,000 as part of a consent decree to resolve complaints that the company switched certain consumers to its mandatory monthly wireless data plans even though it had promised they could retain their existing pay-as-you-go data plans under a […]
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11/07/2012
Deals Of The Day 11/07/12
Amdocs inked another seven-year deal with Sprint, and it will continue to handle billing, customer care and IT infrastructure management under a managed-services model hosted at an Amdocs data center. While continuing its support of the Sprint and Boost Mobile wireless brands, Amdocs also adds the Virgin Mobile USA and Assurance Wireless brands…In other Sprint […]
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11/07/2012
Survey Sez 11/07/12
According to ABI Research, Microsoft’s Mediaroom IPTV platform leads the IPTV middleware market and continues to grow in market share as of mid-2012 to 23 percent of deployed IPTV boxes, despite an environment that is beginning to fragment with many small and regional players. Chinese system integrators ZTE and Huawei are up-and-coming market leaders in that […]
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11/07/2012
New Stuff 11/07/12
AT&T plans to invest $14 billion during the next three years in Project Velocity IP, aimed at “expanding the carrier’s high-potential growth platforms, helping drive continued increases in revenues from existing and new products and services, and earnings per share.” Notes Chairman/CEO Randall Stephenson, “We have the opportunity to improve AT&T’s revenue growth and cost […]
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11/06/2012
The Future Is Bright – And Cloudy
There’s a definitive "cloud shift" happening today in which cloud is quickly moving from the IT arena into the area of business strategy. Cloud computing will increasingly be used in new and innovative ways to transform business models — especially when combined with analytics, mobile and social business. ?? This shift was apparent late last […]