Frontier Communications is rolling out an infrastructure upgrade for Durham and other newly acquired markets that CEO Maggie Wilderotter says could bring residential and business customers faster broadband services within the next 90 to 120 days.
Wilderotter was in Durham Thursday as part of a tour of new markets that Stamford, Conn.-based Frontier (NYSE: FTR) acquired from Verizon Communications. Frontier on July 1 closed on its $8.6 billion deal to buy assets from Verizon in primarily rural markets in 14 states. The company now serves about 250,000 access lines in its Carolinas territory. Wilderotter said improving broadband service is the most immediate need for the newly acquired assets.
“What we found in the Verizon markets is they have not kept up with broadband,” she said.
In the acquired Verizon territory, broadband is available to between 60 percent and 64 percent of customers, Wilderotter said. Frontier is working to push that to up to 72 percent by the end of the year.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Possible pact between Google, Verizon would create Internet class system Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/05/2132310_possible-agreement-between-google.html?storylink=omni_popular#ixzz0voBxjKw9
The all-data-travels-coach ethos that has long ruled the Internet could be making way for business class.
Google reportedly is on the brink of an alliance with Verizon Communications Inc. that would give priority to a particular class of Internet traffic. It would pose a significant challenge to the current egalitarian flow of bits, bytes and terabytes over broadband connections.
Analysts, telecommunications firms and consumer groups say the pact, the first between a content provider, Google, and a broadband carrier, Verizon, would be a turning point in the debate over so-called net neutrality.
Those who’ve been briefed on the Google-Verizon negotiations say the deal would establish a model for cable and phone companies that paves an Internet express lane. That digital road would be reserved for Internet traffic created by businesses that pay an extra toll so their content would move faster. Various news agencies reported that a finished deal is just days away.
Google reportedly is on the brink of an alliance with Verizon Communications Inc. that would give priority to a particular class of Internet traffic. It would pose a significant challenge to the current egalitarian flow of bits, bytes and terabytes over broadband connections.
Analysts, telecommunications firms and consumer groups say the pact, the first between a content provider, Google, and a broadband carrier, Verizon, would be a turning point in the debate over so-called net neutrality.
Those who’ve been briefed on the Google-Verizon negotiations say the deal would establish a model for cable and phone companies that paves an Internet express lane. That digital road would be reserved for Internet traffic created by businesses that pay an extra toll so their content would move faster. Various news agencies reported that a finished deal is just days away.
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