GLG News by FTTx (Fiber to the X) Business Trend Experts

1.      Not too long ago, the price of oil was at $147 a barrel. 2.      Now it has gotten below $70 a barrel. 3.      Falling gas pricing may lead to noticeable reductions in OPEX for fiber to the premises.

1.      The biggest problem right now in telecom is access to money. 2.      Small companies will be feeling the pressure the most because they all need further investment. 3.      With potential investment opportunities for...

undefined 1.     Obviously, Level 3 is being vocal about its traffic capacity requirements rapidly exceeding the combining of multiple 10G systems. 2.     Is this also perhaps a signal that Level 3 is sending to Infinera, which...

undefined 1.     Perhaps, many of us were mistaken about the need for 100G transmission. 2.     We believed that the industry would follow its normal pattern of moving up the line in optical networks as it always has in the past – the...

ATT is following VZ's lead by offering $200 cash back to existing ATT customers that take one of the three Uverse bundled deals, with or without internet access.  The current slowdown in ATT spending on Uverse and everything else, follows the negative economic climate and failing mortgages situation,...

1.      There could easily be another reason for AT&T “putting wireless chief Ralph de la Vega in charge of all consumer offerings...[than] to better coordinate marketing of landline and mobile services...” 2.      It has been long known that...

Google has locked down the strongest online video share with their Youtube offering.  Are they headed toward locking down customers via landline fiber, where they can act as ISP, Service Provider, and major advertising power on the net?

1. Despite the economic downturn, the overall telecom services business in the US continues to remain rather good. 2. While residential building has taken a hard hit, the performance numbers at the three major service providers have stayed fairly strong – especially at AT&T and Verizon. 3....

Incumbency will be critical in whether vendors win or lose during the downturn in the US telecom market. R&D and service programs will suffer the most. If layoffs occur at one of these suppliers, instead of getting rid of the most experienced employees, the company should try as much as...

Our publication, for paying subscribers only and not made public, actually published the Nortel-Huawei story on Sept. 19, almost a week prior to the Lightwave article. I have been covering Nortel's optical program for 25 years and predicted it either would sell the optical division or can Mike Zafirovski...