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luisfred Thanks for keeping your content always fresh and containing only the necessary info. That means a lot to a busy mom like me. I didn't have lots of time to spare online but I still want to drop by... Articles BBWN Bites: Pay-TV Providers Almost Double Sub Losses in a Year Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 11/13/2019 Also, Orange constructs international network in Africa, Openreach needs to speed up FTTx construction and more. Telcos Continue Losing Broadband Share to Cable Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 11/13/2019 US cable operators continue to grow their customer base at the expense of telcos, as the broadband market swelled to 100.6 million subscribers by the third quarter of 2019, according to new data from Leichtman Research Group. BBWN Bites: Charter Picks Plume OpenSync for Smart Home Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 11/12/2019 Also today, senators pitch one definition of "high-speed broadband," SpaceX gets busy again, Broadband Forum's Gfast certification program adds more grads, toob automates CX with Netadmin, Illinois gets a new broadband director, Calix hires global cloud sales director and Nigerian ISP opts for Nokia GPON. BBWN Bites: Disney+ to Dominate Streaming Platforms - Report Broadband World News, , 11/11/2019 Also, Discovery Communications may launch own OTT service, Vodafone UK adds Openreach to wholesale partner list, Vodacom grows in South Africa, Iranian utility to become FTTH wholesaler and Ovum expects big changes for Africa's low fixed broadband rate. New CEO Will Lead Frontier Communications' Future – Report Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 11/11/2019 Frontier Communications reportedly is seeking a new CEO and leadership team to manage the service provider after it announced yet one more quarter of financial and subscriber losses, Bloomberg reported today, citing people knowledgeable about the issue. BBWN Bites: BC Group to Buy Bulgaria's Vivacom for $1.3B Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 11/8/2019 Also today, cable operators beat productivity average, Missouri utility upgrades broadband without upgrading costs, TiVo gives deadline for split, Liberty Global's mixed earnings are in and veterans find a friend (and perhaps a career) in Windstream. BBWN Bites: Virgin Media's Bundles Lead to Broadband Gains Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 11/7/2019 Also today, Comcast Flex offers choice, Slovenia's broadband competition is plentiful (and weak), and a city in Iowa considers municipal broadband for better connectivity. BBWN Bites: Optus Takes On NBN With 5G FWA Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 11/6/2019 Also today, gigabit broadband's healthy EU boost, Ofcom picks Oxly as temporary chief exec, Jurassic Fibre starts FTTP era, Zen Internet collected about credit, ITI finalizes Canal+ deal, Missouri's $5M grant, Pennsylvania county starts broadband survey and FCC reschedules November meeting. Altice USA Fiber Upgrade Rolls to 500K Homes Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/6/2019 Altice USA's fiber-to-the-premises network rollout is switching into high gear as the operator ended the third quarter of 2019 with 500,000 homes now ready for service with FTTP. 1 Comment WOW Sharpens Sub Growth Using Network 'Edge-Outs' Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 11/4/2019 WideOpenWest, a competitive cable operator that competes with incumbent MSOs and telcos in several US markets, said a surge in subscriber growth in Q3 2019 was powered in part by "edge outs" that extend the reach of its service footprint. 1 Comment ADTRAN's Revenues Plunge in Q3 Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/31/2019 ADTRAN reported third-quarter revenue of $114.1 million, down 22.9% year-over-year, because of a "pause" in shipments to Telmex and a purchasing "slowdown" at Deutsche Telekom. Without these two tier ones weighing it down, the vendor's sales would have grown by one fifth. 1 Comment Verizon Touts Progress With NG-PON2 Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/30/2019 LAS VEGAS -- Verizon continues to construct the Intelligent Edge Network by testing NG-PON2's capabilities in the lab and field, and slowly increasing the company's reliance on software instead of purpose-built, legacy networks, execs said here at an industry event hosted by Calix. 1 Comment Load More Articles + All Articles All Video All Slide Shows All Articles Evolving Unlicensed 5G Applications: Closing the Divide in Mobile & Last-Mile Connections Pam Baker, Freelance Writer, 10/23/2019 Unlicensed 5G applications open a new world of benefits to enterprises large and small, given their use of exceptionally wide bandwidth or broad channels at a time when other spectrum is nearing exhaustion. 1 Comment All blogs		Sponsored Video Ronan Kelly, ADTRAN CTO, EMEA & APAC, shares his thoughts on the regulatory and government policy, technology adoption and consumer services ... Ronan Kelly, ADTRAN CTO, EMEA & APC, shares his thoughts on industry operators leveraging virtualization, disaggregation and open SDN control, ... Network slicing promises to be a panacea, but the biggest hurdles are not technological. The grand ambition of enabling intelligent, adaptive, ... F-Secure has been providing security for endpoints for 30 years, and using AI and machine learning algorithms, for example in the labs to automate ... Fahri Diner, CEO and Co-founder of Plume, unveiled a new open source initiative, OpenSync, at Broadband World Forum 2018. Announced together with ... All Videos Information Resources >> Last Yard Visibility: Enabling End-to-End QoE with Home Wi-Fi Analytics >> SmartRG Home Analytics: Overcoming Cost and Complexity >> Tracking Critical KPIs to Improve the Subscriber Experience >> Evolving home gateway architecture to enable the smart home >> Accelerate Your Time to Revenue by Simplifying Your OSS/BSS Integration with AXOS >> ADTRAN Case Study: Enabling 5G with Fixed Wireless Access >> ADTRAN Brief: Extend the Life of Your Network Infrastructure >> Catching the mmWave – Avoiding Bidding Pitfalls with the FCC Auction 102 (24GHz) >> Ensure a Role in the Center of the Smart Home >> ADTRAN Primer: Accelerating the Path to Software-Defined Access All resources Video At the recent Broadband World Forum, Alzbeta Fellenbaum, a principal analyst and manager of research at IHS Markit, discusses the broadband speed ... At the Broadband World Forum in Amsterdam, Michael Philpott, senior practice leader of Ovum's Consumer Services team, outlines the key ... At the recent Broadband World Forum 2019 event, Lincoln Lavoie from the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) gives an update ... At the Broadband World Forum 2019 in Amsterdam, Light Reading's Iain Morris and Ray Le Maistre discuss some of the industry's hot developments, ... Alternative UK fixed-broadband network operator Community Fibre is deploying ADTRAN gear to take 10 Gbit/s to London users at aggressive prices. All Videos Webinars ARCHIVED Thursday, October 17, 2019 12 p.m. New York/ 5:00 p.m. London MSOs Caught in the Middle: GPON vs. EPON The ongoing debate around GPON vs EPON can get as heated as discussions around politics and religion, but both technologies offer some advantages over the other depending on the needs your network is servicing. In this webinar, we will focus on the facts around the GPON vs EPON debate and how that technological decision is almost always made based on factors outside the technology itself. Key topics include: GPON vs EPON Technologies Overview GPON vs EPON Rates & Reach ITU vs IEEE – Where’s the difference? Future Growth More Webinars Webinar Archives Industry Announcements Angola Cables & Nokia Trial Direct Optical Fiber Link Between Africa & US 6 hours and 51 minutes ago Atlantic Broadband Continues Fiber Expansion in Virginia 10 hours and 4 minutes ago Prysmian Group Sees Profitability Grow in First 9 Months of 2019 Tuesday, November 12, 2019 ADTRAN, Broadcom, Cisco & Nokia Complete Broadband Forum Gfast Certification Tuesday, November 12, 2019 UK's toob Signs Netadmin for Automated Customer Journey to Fiber Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Altran & Edgecore Debut Interoperable Virtualized Broadband Access Solution Thursday, November 7, 2019 Prysmian Group, TPG Telecom Build '10 Gig Adelaide,' Perhaps Australia's Smartest City Wednesday, November 6, 2019 More Industry Announcements Broadband World Forum Perspectives 9/27/2019 BBWF Interview: Rogers Communications' Lindsey Omelon on the Evolving Customer Digital Experience As the Senior Digital Experience Strategist at Canadian operator Rogers Communications, Lindsey Omelon build on her years of marketing experience to approach her strategy with a hybrid ... Post a Comment 9/11/2019 BBWF Interview: KT's JP Lee on AI in Telecoms There's certainly no shortage of hype around the use of AI in the telecoms sector, but fewer instances of real-world deployments. South Korean national operator KT is one of those ... Post a Comment 9/9/2019 BBWF Interview: MyRepublic's Jay Shah Cuts Through the AI Hype Do a Google search of 'artificial intelligence broadband' and you'll get more than 9 million results in less than a second: The sheer volume of content out there shouldn't surprise anyone ... Post a Comment 8/30/2019 BBWF Interview: Comcast's Michael Soileau on Tackling Transformation Comcast, like any other major communications service provider, is undergoing significant changes in the way it grows its business, how it runs its business and the technologies it uses to ... Post a Comment 8/19/2019 BBWF Interview: NOS's Manuel Eanes on the Smart Home Opp for Telcos Five years ago, NOS board member Manuel Ramalho Eanes banked big on smart homes and smart cities. Post a Comment All Broadband World Forum Perspectives Partner Perspectives - from our sponsors Evolving Unlicensed 5G Applications: Closing the Divide in Mobile & Last-Mile Connections By Sivers IMA What Service Providers Should Know About WiFi 6 By Greg Owens, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Calix Turning the Keys to State-of-the-Art 5G mmWave By Sivers IMA Necessity Is the Mother of Invention By Mark Weller New Initiative Looks to Open the Mesh & Help ISPs Fight Back By Plume All Partner Perspectives Flash Poll All polls Radio Shows ARCHIVED \| April 23, 2019, 12pm EDT BBWN Radio: AT&T Global VP Prescribes Transformation for Healthcare In this insightful Light Reading radio show, Kurt Raaflaub, Head of Strategic Solutions Marketing, will outline the key service provider challenges, deployment considerations, next-gen Gigabit technologies, and service models to win market share in the rapidly growing MDU market. ARCHIVED SHOWS DOWNLOAD TO CALENDAR