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Bells Giving Up on Landlines?

We see the consolidation in the rural landline business. Verizon has dumped unwanted regions on Hawaii Telecom, Fairport (New England), Alltel (old GTE areas like Eastern KY), and soon the Frontier deal.  Centurytel and Embarq just merger. It was May, 2006 that... Full Story

Posted on July 2, 2009 10:29 AM

A Rural Super Carrier?

With VZ shedding its last bit of rural landlines to Frontier, the blogosphere is alive with talk about Super RLEC's - Frontier, Fairpoint, CenturyTel, Windstream and maybe Qwest. CenturyTel's coming merger with Embarq will give it the title as a... Full Story

Posted on May 18, 2009 2:18 PM

VZ Gets Rid of 13 States

Although it was AT&T's CEO that said We are a Wireless company, it is the actions of Verizon that make you stand up and take note. Today, VZ reached a deal with Frontier - a $8.6B all-stock deal. As Frost... Full Story

Posted on May 13, 2009 8:36 AM

VoiceCon

I spent a couple of hours at VoiceCon in the exhibit hall yesterday. The biggest surprise was VZB and Sprint. Especially Sprint. They are pimping the Wireline / Fiber with mobile integration. They had lots of new handsets. (So again... Full Story

Posted on April 2, 2009 10:17 AM

Best Kept Sprint Secret

Here's something to do: surf over to Sprint.com and try to find any wireline services. After 5 minutes of searching Business Services, navigation takes you to Nextel.com for Sprint's MPLS offering. On that page, you can find info about MPLS,... Full Story

Posted on September 23, 2008 9:47 AM