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Content tagged with Customer Experience (CX) posted in May 2019
Want a Smart City? Build a Fiber Backbone
Fiber Broadband Association   5/31/2019   18 comments
Fiber future-proofs city networks, is fast and reliable and research shows a strong correlation between fiber deployment and small cell activity – all essential for smart-city development.
BBWN Bites: FCC Report Exaggerates Rural Broadband Progress
Broadband World News   5/31/2019   10 comments
Also in today's news roundup: Telefónica Spain looks for rural connectivity options and Loon provides aid in Peru.
Rural Is Central to Frontier's $1.35B Broadband Sale
Alison’s Wonderland   5/29/2019   6 comments
The operator is selling its wireline network across four mainly rural states, areas in which it has invested federal CAF II funds to bridge the digital divide.
BBWN Bites: Aussie's NBN Upgrades Some FTTN Subs
Broadband World News   5/28/2019   13 comments
In addition, Netplus upgrades with Nokia, Telefónica rides up the IoT escalator, security households still prefer monitoring (but perhaps not for much longer) and anyone for 8K tennis?
DT's Fiber Invasion, One Partner at a Time
Alison Diana   5/24/2019   9 comments
Deutsche Telekom just signed an infrastructure project with the Gigabit Region Stuttgart, home to 174 municipalities and almost 3 million people, one of many partnerships the German operator has inked in its bid to grow revenue and business.
Broadband Forum Opens Connected Home to Standards
Alison Diana   5/21/2019   9 comments
Organization extends popular TR-069 standard for use in smart homes, looking to simplify and standardize market for vendors, operators and end users.
BBWN Bites: Dish Network Eats Up More of EchoStar
Broadband World News   5/20/2019   3 comments
Also in today's roundup: Google has stopped supporting Huawei's Android efforts, traffic congestion tech could be a money spinner and carriers keep blaming 5G delays on city bureaucracies.
BBWN Bites: BT Shares With Employees
Broadband World News   5/17/2019   7 comments
Also in today's roundup of broadband happenings is news from the FCC, and more German residents will get high-speed broadband in 2019 from NetCologne.
BBWN Bites: UK Conservatives Rail Against Huawei
Broadband World News   5/16/2019   36 comments
Also in today's roundup: Windstream, Bouygues Telecom, Millicom, Clearfield, FirstLight and Telia Carrier share positive news. And we're keeping our eyes peeled for the next SpaceX launch.
BBWN Bites: Small MSOs Gird for China Ban, Arris Exec Shuffle Starts
Broadband World News   5/15/2019   5 comments
At least one top executive moves on from Arris, the president's expected ban of Huawei will hit smaller operators first and hardest and UK providers must give consumers a lot of info to prevent the 'loyalty penalty.'
How Amazon & SpaceX Could Reshape Broadband Competition – Report
Alison Diana   5/15/2019   11 comments
By slashing subscriber pricing by more than $30 billion annually, Low Earth Orbit satellite companies led by Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk as well as OneWeb have the potential to usher in a whole new era of broadband.
DASAN Zhone Credits Breadth of Products for Strong Q1
Alison Diana   5/13/2019   1 comment
Ability to deliver copper- and fiber-based technologies to service providers around the world helped DZS beat expectations and boost revenue to start 2019.
BBWN Bites: TiVo Goes Halvsies, Senators Seek Better Broadband Map
Broadband World News   5/10/2019   39 comments
End your week by catching today's updates from CityFibre and Excalibur, hot new NPD Group smart home stats, how a trial from DT and Ericsson fared against fiber speeds, and what one Light Reading editor may stream this weekend.
BBWN Bites: CenturyLink Considers Consumer Biz Fate, Mid-Eastern Moves
Broadband World News   5/9/2019   24 comments
From US-based CenturyLink to the Middle East, today's BBWN Bites includes stops in Oman, Iran and Egypt, before heading to the UK for an upbeat, non-profit fiber tale. And don't miss insight into the ongoing, global smart-speaker battle.
BBWN Bites: Pay-TV Providers Frown, but Irish Eyes Smile at Broadband Deal
Broadband World News   5/8/2019   1 comment
Lots of good fiber news in Europe – including Irish government officials' plan to advance its National Broadband Plan, but the same cannot be said for pay-TV providers in the US.
BBWN Bites: BT Amps Up Fiber Appetite
Broadband World News   5/6/2019   1 comment
Fiber is the main course for BT, OTT providers are beating out traditional pay-TV providers' content bundles, as today's BBWN Bites discovers.
GoSEMO's Fiber Broadband Extends Life Beyond Field of Dreams
Alison Diana   5/6/2019   2 comments
Rural Missouri electric utility creates broadband co-op and learns from other co-op companies how best to build a reliable network to keep rural residents connected.
BBWN Bites: Alaska Joins the Broadband Union, Comcast Buys WiFi Guys
Broadband World News   5/2/2019   12 comments
Don't miss news about Huawei Australia's new CEO, Emtelle and CityFibre, Germany's broadband landscape, Hulu's surging subs and what Keymile's up to these days.
Calix's Revenue Dinged by Supply Chain, but Strategy Paying Off
Alison Diana   5/1/2019   1 comment
Problems with supply chain hurt Calix Q1 revenue, but other metrics demonstrated the company is on the right transformational path, said CEO and President Carl Russo.
BBWN Bites: Huawei Plans 8K 5G TV, UK OTT Subs Rise
Broadband World News   5/1/2019   44 comments
In other news, the UK government wants to write new laws to protect IoT consumers, Caavo simplifies smart-home controls and Charter considers dual SIMs.
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As we have for the past two years, Light Reading will stage the Cable Next-Gen Technologies & Strategies conference as a free digital event over two half-days in mid-March.
Launch of 2-Gig and 5-Gig FTTP tiers in 70-plus markets puts more pressure on cable ops to enhance their existing DOCSIS 3.1 network or accelerate their upgrade activity centered on the new DOCSIS 4.0 specs.
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