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Alison’s Wonderland I wonder what other companies, whether video streaming providers or otherwise, release monthly stats on operators? It would be fascinating to compare and contrast findings. Articles BBWN Bites: Connecting Africa to Cost $100B – World Bank Report Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/18/2019 Also today, Sparklight Business brightens enterprise WiFi, Eir bites into Apple TV, UK's small businesses suffer with poor broadband, Vatican on demand and CityFibre inks deal with DWS. BBWN Bites: Builders Toss Nest Out of New Properties Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/17/2019 Also today, Tele2 reports earnings, pay-TV rises in Spain, India's government considers streaming censorship and more. Comcast Business Crosses Canadian Border With iTel Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/16/2019 Comcast Business is expanding services and network management offerings to US-based Fortune 1000 enterprises' Canadian branch divisions through an access partnership with iTel Networks. BBWN Bites: SpaceX Asks to Send Up 30K More Broadband Satellites Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/16/2019 Also today, toob rolls out fiber fast, consumers are overwhelmed by streaming options, using NEXTGEN TV to connect rural US, new FWA stats, 5G for home broadband generates consumer interest and TalkTalk is now a Northern Powerhouse. Sick of Bad Press, Australia's NBN Pulls Out Its Own Broadband Rankings Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/16/2019 AMSTERDAM -- Broadband World Forum 2019 -- The free speed tests consumers use when assessing broadband services are a constant headache for Stephen Rue, the boss of NBN Co, the state-backed operator charged with building Australia's wholesale network. High-Speed Broadband: The Prescription for a Healthier Country Fiber Broadband Association, , 10/16/2019 Healthcare today is an increasingly digital experience. From electronic medical records to online billing and remote monitoring of patients, much of our care heavily relies on the cloud. Telemedicine often increases patient access to care and can lower costs, but it requires both providers and patients have access to reliable, high-speed broadband. ... CORD Comes to Life at #BBWF Iain Morris, International Editor, 10/16/2019 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, including the latest on CORD (Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter) and the importance of alternative broadband access technologies. BBWN Bites: Verizon, Spectrum Top Netflix Tier-One Speed Rankings Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/15/2019 Also today, Boris's broadband goal gets no love in Parliament, Roku delivers for Apple fans, Tubi targets UK and kids, Rakuten TV brings freebie ad-supported service, Chile seeks tenders for national fiber infrastructure project and meet Net Insight's new CEO. 1 Comment BBWN Bites: Alternative Access Techs Advance Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/14/2019 Also today, Watch Communications and Ericsson heard it on the radio, Radwin tunes in to better TV white space, Hyperoptic gets new majority owner and more. BBWN Bites: Consumer Tech Spending to Climb to $2.06T by 2023 – IDC Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/11/2019 Also today, Comcast is really virtualizing, Verizon counts on emerging backhaul tech to cut 5G costs, Altice Labs gets results with RDK software, Openreach adds up broadband's benefits for Brits, BT boosts some rural speeds for free, Alcatel's submarine team buys a new-to-them ship, Comcast fixes minor glitch and Brits like broadband, bedrooms and ... BBWN Bites: 60% of US Farmers Have Inadequate Broadband — Study Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/10/2019 Also today, Liberty LatAm to acquire AT&T's assets in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, another DirecTV scenario emerges, OTT's growth spurt and smart doorbells keep ringing. ADTRAN Warns of Tier 1 Slowdown, but Other Biz Grows 20% in Q3 Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/10/2019 Excluding Deutsche Telekom and Telmex, which took a purchasing hiatus in Q3, ADTRAN's business grew 20% over the prior quarter and generated an estimated $114 million, the company reported on Wednesday. Load More Articles + All Articles All Video All Slide Shows All Articles What Service Providers Should Know About WiFi 6 Greg Owens, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Calix, , 10/18/2019 On September 20, hundreds of thousands of consumers worldwide got their hands on Apple's newest smartphone. All blogs		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 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 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 Smartcom Unveils Customizable CPEs Friday, October 18, 2019 ADTRAN & toob Expedite UK's Gig Future Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Comcast Business Partners to Serve US Customers in Canada Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Prysmian Group Enters IoT With Alesea AI for Cable Drums Tuesday, October 15, 2019 CityFibre Celebrates 1-Year Anniversary of Gigabity City Rollout Monday, October 14, 2019 ADTRAN Announces Preliminary Q3 Revenue of $114M Thursday, October 10, 2019 Coop Puts 35% Savings From Calix Cloud Into Enhanced WiFi With GigaSpire Thursday, October 10, 2019 More Industry Announcements Flash Poll All polls Partner Perspectives - from our sponsors 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 A Personal Coach to Improve Your Firm's Fitness By Eddy Vergauwen, Lead for Global Services Marketing at Nokia Fixed Networks All Partner Perspectives 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 Sponsored Video 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 ... Talking to Light Reading's Iain Morris, Sebastian Richter from devolo explains why operators have to think beyond delivering high bandwidth and ... All Videos Video 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. At Broadband World Forum 2018 there's a lot of chat about the shift towards software-defined access networks, but how tough and how expensive ... What are the hot talking points in the fixed broadband sector right now? Gigabit over copper as well as fiber, software-defined access and more, ... Light Reading's pro-European, Berlin-lovin' editors Ray Le Maistre and Iain Morris discuss some of the hot topics from BBWF 2017, including Gfast ... All Videos