Archive for the ‘Telecom Jobs’ Category
by Ed GubbinsJanuary 15th, 2010
The NTIA and RUS are issuing separate rules for the second round of broadband stimulus funding, worth $4.8 billion.
The NTIA is allocating $2.6 billion in funding during the next round, of which $2.35 billion will go to infrastructure projects, with a focus on what the NTIA calls “comprehensive community” proposals: “middle-mile broadband projects that connect key community anchor institutions – such as libraries, hospitals, community colleges, universities, and public safety institutions,” the NTIA said.
RUS, meanwhile, will distribute $2.2 billion, with a focus on last-mile projects. It will also add “support” for satellite-based proposals, but only in areas that are left unserved after other funds are awarded. (more…)
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by Ed GubbinsDecember 17th, 2009
Vice President Joe Biden announced the recipients of the first $182 million in broadband stimulus grants today (just 9% of the first round of funding and 2% of the overall total) in Dawsonville, Ga.
The 18 projects included in the winners being announced today will benefit 17 states and have already been matched by more than $46 million in private funding, the White House said.
UPDATE: The full list of recipients announced today is available here.
Though the administrators of the program promised to announce the first round of winners this month, the White House said today those announcements — pertaining to $2 billion in awards — will be spread out over the next 75 days. Of the $182 million in funds being announced today, $129 million will come from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and $54 million will come from the Rural Utilities Service.
The awards announced today include: (more…)
Related Topics: All Stories, Broadband/FTTX, IP/NGN, Independent, Residential Services, Smart Grids, Telecom Jobs, WiMAX |
by Ed GubbinsDecember 15th, 2009
Allied Wireless, a subsidiary of Massachusetts-based Atlantic Tele-Network (NASDAQ:ATNI), is building a new headquarters in Little Rock, Ark., the company announced today along with plans to hire 200 to 250 workers at the new location.
Allied was created to operate wireless assets acquired by Atlantic that had been divested as part of Verizon Wireless’s acquisition of Alltel. Atlantic had previously hinted that it might choose Little Rock to set up its new base of operations, in part because hundreds of layoffs following Verizon’s acquisition have left a ready pool of available talent there.
In September, 13-year Alltel veteran Frank O’Mara was named to lead the acquired business, which includes 800,000 subscribers in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Illinois, Ohio and Idaho.
Related Topics: 3G/4G, All Stories, IMS, Independent, LTE, Mobile Apps, Telecom Jobs, Wireless |
by Rich KarpinskiDecember 4th, 2009
So this week Adtran invited press and analysts down to Huntsville, Ala., for a debriefing on upcoming announcements and a tour, of among other things, its manufacturing facilities that build and assemble enterprise and carrier equipment here on U.S. soil, right in-house.
The company does ship high-volume manufacturing off-shore to contract manufacturing partners, but says managing first-runs and rush jobs locally — with its engineers and designers right in the next building — can actually save money when all costs are accounted for. Further, it gives the company insights into its own products that it claims competitors lack.
U.S-based manufacturing is so rare these days, we thought we would share a look. (more…)
Related Topics: 3G/4G, All Stories, Broadband/FTTX, Business Services, Carrier Ethernet, IPTV, Optical, Residential Services, Telecom Jobs, Unified Communications |
by Ed GubbinsDecember 1st, 2009
The public has until Monday (Dec. 7) to comment on plans the FCC announced the day before Thanksgiving to release its vast database of private telecom services to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration for it to use in evaluating whether broadband stimulus proposals refer to so-called “unserved” and “underserved” areas. (more…)
Related Topics: All Stories, Broadband/FTTX, Independent, Regulation, Residential Services, Telecom Jobs, WiMAX |
by Ed GubbinsNovember 13th, 2009
Only two districts remain in AT&T’s (NYSE:T) region-by-region negotiations with union workers after the company signed a four-year agreement with Southwest employees this week.
AT&T’s contract with workers in District 3, which includes nine Southeastern states, expired in August. And its contract in District 1, which includes Connecticut, expired in April. Together they represent just 30% of AT&T’s roughly 120,000 landline employees.
Agreements in those remaining regions don’t appear likely to be coming any time soon. Union officials in District 1 haven’t met with AT&T officials since October. And yesterday William Henderson, a union president there, called AT&T’s region-by-region approach a “divide and conquer” strategy, though the company pointed out that its existing labor contracts are divided into these regions.
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by Sarah ReedyOctober 20th, 2009
The economic recession may have caused layoffs and cutting back in the enterprise, but it hasn’t hurt the growth of business use of mobile data services. According to ABI Research, mobile data services revenues will increase 17% next year and continue to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 12% until 2014. (more…)
Related Topics: 3G/4G, All Stories, Business Services, Mobile Apps, Telecom Jobs, Wireless |
by Ed GubbinsOctober 2nd, 2009
Windstream (NYSE:WIN) may be buying up debt held by Fairpoint Communications (NYSE:FRP) as the latter faces the possibility of bankruptcy, according to the New York Post. (more…)
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by Ed GubbinsSeptember 29th, 2009
Comcast’s (NASDAQ:CMCSA) Brian Roberts has been named one of the top five most overpaid CEOs by the Corporate Library, a corporate governance research and analysis firm.
Roberts’ total 2008 compensation of (more…)
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