On February 25, AT&T filed a lawsuit stating that the city of Louisville, KY, lacks the jurisdiction to allow high-speed Google Fiber and other ISPs to install equipment on its utility poles. AT&T claimed to welcome competition in providing Louisville residents with faster online access but that the so-called “One Touch Make Ready” ordinance goes against various state and federal […]

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Verizon Communications Inc. today announced it has signed an agreement to purchase XO Communications’ fiber-optic network business for approximately $1.8 billion. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval from various governmental agencies and is expected to close in the first half of 2017. Consolidation continues in the telecommunication industry to provide the scale that is […]

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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) has announced their Flexible Access System Architecture (FASA) as part of their strategy to encourage sales of white box hardware for the optical access network. White Box sales of Ethernet Switches for data centers have been steady if unspectacular as reported by Dell’Oro (report on Data Center white boxes).  […]

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