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			<title>CenturyLink dips its feet into the 1 Gbps FTTP waters - Fierce Telecom</title>
			<link>http://www.telecomyou.com/newscenter/news/centurylink-dips-its-feet-into-the-1-gbps-fttp-waters</link>
			<description><![CDATA[CenturyLink, like its fellow RBOC AT&amp;T, has been conservative about transforming its last mile network that leverages a hybrid copper/fiber fiber to the node architecture, but its new pilot in Omaha shows that it wants to consider fiber to the premises as part of its broader last mile access toolkit.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 12:10:01 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Australia&#039;s NBN Co. purchases iiNet&#039;s FTTP network - Fierce Telecom</title>
			<link>http://www.telecomyou.com/newscenter/news/australias-nbn-co-purchases-iinets-fttp-network</link>
			<description><![CDATA[NBN Co. is bolstering its fiber to the premises network plans by purchasing iiNet&#039;s TransACT-branded FTTP network and related infrastructure in the Australian Capital Territory for AUD 9 million (USD 8.79 million).]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 10:50:01 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>EC’s super-fast broadband estimates challenged - telecoms.com</title>
			<link>http://www.telecomyou.com/newscenter/news/ec’s-superfast-broadband-estimates-challenged</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Point Topic estimates the total cost at €80bn
Providing super-fast broadband to the whole of the European Union could be much less expensive than previously thought, according to UK research firm Point Topic, which estimates that the whole economic area could be served for €80bn – less than a third of the €270bn estimated by the European Commission in its Digital Agenda.
Defined as delivering at least 30Mbps of data downstream, super-fast broadband services have long been championed by EC Commissioner Neelie Kroes, who has taken on the mission of ensuring that all EU households can access these speeds by 2020.
However, both operators and national governments have balked at the cost, so it will come as welcome news to many that the cost may be much lower.
The main reason for Point Topic’s reduced estimate is that super-fast networks have already covered about half of European homes, using a variety of technologies in addition to expensive fibre-to-the-home (FTTH), such as cable and copper-based VDSL, which Point Topic has used as the main connection method in urban areas in its models.
Of the €80bn total, around two-thirds (or €52bn) will be needed to hook up the areas of lowest population density, defined as having less than 100 people per square kilometre.
Tim Johnson, lead author of the report, said: “Most of that amount will have to be funded by the taxpayer in one way or another,” says Johnson, “and we think that’s about as much as they will stand for. But we think that a large proportion of rural Europe will get wired up on that basis.”]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:45:01 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>FTTH Council APAC: Notes from New Zealand - TelecomAsia.net</title>
			<link>http://www.telecomyou.com/newscenter/news/ftth-council-apac-notes-from-new-zealand</link>
			<description><![CDATA[UFB rollout is happening, the role of SDN in FTTH and moreread more]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 20:25:01 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>AT&amp;T&#039;s Stephenson:  FTTP adoption rate is strong - Fierce Telecom</title>
			<link>http://www.telecomyou.com/newscenter/news/atts-stephenson-fttp-adoption-rate-is-strong</link>
			<description><![CDATA[AT&amp;T is seeing some early success with its fiber deployments. Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson told investors at a J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference today that the company is seeing good uptake of its fiber to the building deployments from the small and medium-size business market.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 09:55:01 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Google Fiber names Gladstone, Mo. as its next FTTP destination - Fierce Telecom</title>
			<link>http://www.telecomyou.com/newscenter/news/google-fiber-names-gladstone-mo-as-its-next-fttp-destination</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Google Fiber has added Gladstone as the latest municipality in the Kansas City area to get its 1 Gbps fiber to the premises service.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 12:15:01 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Gigabit FTTH in APAC: The salami effect - TelecomAsia.net</title>
			<link>http://www.telecomyou.com/newscenter/news/gigabit-ftth-in-apac-the-salami-effect</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Slicing up content can fill pipes, but may not be profitable read more]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 21:10:01 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Lumos Networks&#039; enterprise, FTTT gains drive up revenue to $52.5 million - Fierce Telecom</title>
			<link>http://www.telecomyou.com/newscenter/news/lumos-networks-enterprise-fttt-gains-drive-up-revenue-to-525-million</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Lumos Networks&#039; (Nasdaq: LMOS) continued expansion into IP-based business and wholesale services, particularly fiber to the tower (FTTT) services for wireless operators, drove up Q1 2013 revenues year-over-year to $52.5 million.
Strategic data revenue, which represented almost 57 percent of total revenues, rose to $29.7 million, up sequentially from $28.9 million in Q4 2012 and up about 15 percent year over year from Q1 2012. Within the strategic data segment, enterprise and carrier data rose sequentially to $9.9 million and $14.9 million, respectively, while IP services rose to $4.7 million.
Complementing its gains in strategic data revenue, Lumos completed $425 million in debt refinancing at the end of April.
Tim Biltz, CEO and president of Lumos, said in the earnings release that with the debt refinancing complete he is &quot;confident that we will now have the capital &#039;runway&#039; needed to finance continued expansion of our dense fiber network to meet our customer&#039;s demands for fiber-based bandwidth for our key target customers in our Enterprise and Carrier data segments.&quot;
To meet the growing demand for wireless backhaul in the regions it services, Lumos completed 35 FTTT installations, reaching a total of 405 as of the end of March. The service provider has forecast that the number of &quot;new FTTC installations will grow sequentially in the second quarter and maintains its target of 550-600 total FTTC installations by the end of 2013.&quot;
It also continued to make gains on building out its fiber network to serve more business customers, adding 39 on-net buildings to end the quarter with a total of 1,235 buildings. The telco also signed contracts with two core enterprises and three service provider customers in Richmond, Va., as part of its &quot;edge-out&quot; fiber network strategy. Lumos said that it expects the Richmond market to &quot;go live&quot; in Q3 2013.
Meanwhile, Lumos reported that in the RLEC business it did see some minor gains in both broadband and video service subscribers. During the quarter it added 51 new broadband customers and 117 video subscribers. As expected, legacy access and voice service revenue declined to $7.8 and $14.9 million, respectively.
Overall Q1 revenue was $52.5 million, compared to $51.4 million for the first quarter of 2012 and $52.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Looking toward Q2 2013, Lumos has forecast revenues to be about $52 million and adjusted EBITDA of about $24 million. It also reiterated its full-year revenue guidance to be in the range of $208 to $212 million and adjusted EBITDA in the range of $94 to $97 million.
Shares of Lumos Networks were trading at $13.49, up 0.49, or 3.77 percent in Friday morning trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange. 
For more:
	- see the earnings release
Earnings roundup: Wireline telecom earnings in the first quarter of 2013
	
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	Lumos Networks names AboveNet veteran Joti Balani as VP of Marketing
	Lumos Networks adds mobile capabilities to its IP Centrex line]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 11:05:01 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Week in research: Data centers play it safe; Ethernet switch market set for turbulence - Fierce Telecom</title>
			<link>http://www.telecomyou.com/newscenter/news/week-in-research-data-centers-play-it-safe-ethernet-switch-market-set-for-turbulence</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Data center operators stick to the safe road: Fibre Channel is still the technology of choice for data center operators, despite the emergence of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), an Infonetics Research report says. It&#039;s indicative of a trend among operators to remain more conservative with their data center deployments, according to Michael Howard, principal analyst for carrier networks. For example, server virtualization is still used only for select applications. &quot;Server virtualization has been the focus of the data center industry for several years now, and the largest data center owners and internet content providers like Google are ubiquitously exploiting virtual machines,&quot; he said. &quot;Yet the reality is the bulk of data center owners are more pedestrian in their deployments, finding it more operationally convenient to leave many areas of their data centers alone, using server virtualization for only select applications.&quot; Release

Future-proof fiber: From the department of glaringly obvious things, a new study conducted for Telecompaper by XSInsight confirmed that fiber to the home (FTTH) is the most future-proof fixed-access technology. However, DSL and coax--augmented by DOCSIS 3.0 technology--will be able to fulfill bandwidth demands in many of the ten markets the study focused on. It said that &quot;required bandwidth (at actual speeds) varies from 20/1 Mbps for a basic one person household to 70/4 Mbps for a high-end, five-person household through 2016,&quot; according to the Telecompaper article (sub req.).
Ethernet switch evolution: A Dell&#039;Oro report said the Ethernet switch market now exceeds $20 billion, but as end user preferences change, this segment is undergoing &quot;dramatic changes.&quot; More end users prefer purpose-built devices that are optimized according to their deployment location. And those locations are stratified into four areas: data center, enterprise, SMB (small and medium-sized business) and Carrier Ethernet services. &quot;Data center consolidation projects and an increase in cloud services are causing the data center segment to significantly outperform the overall Ethernet switch market. This trend is causing vendors focused in the data center to gain overall market share compared to those focused in other segments,&quot; said Alan Weckel, Vice President at Dell&#039;Oro Group. &quot;At the same time, the increase in mobile devices is causing many enterprises and SMBs to invest more heavily in WLAN.&quot; The changes haven&#039;t yet had a negative effect on the segment, but Ethernet switches may be in for a bumpy ride as the enterprise and SMB segments are expected to plateau and decline over the next few years. Release]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 10:35:01 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Google Fiber takes on AT&amp;T, Verizon in Shawnee, Kan. - Fierce Telecom</title>
			<link>http://www.telecomyou.com/newscenter/news/google-fiber-takes-on-att-verizon-in-shawnee-kan</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Google Fiber (Nasdaq: GOOG) on Thursday said that it is extending its fiber to the home (FTTH) service into Shawnee, Kan., where it will take on established telcos AT&amp;T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ).
The Internet giant has recently been on an active streak of network expansions. Google announced in April that it would bring the service to Austin, Texas and, no less than two weeks later, to Provo, Utah.
Similar to these network expansions, Google Fiber will offer speeds that will far surpass what residents can get from AT&amp;T and Verizon, both of which currently offer speeds on their DSL networks between 10-25 Mbps.
Although Shawnee is located southwest of Kansas City, which will make for an easier extension plan, the service provider has not given a timeline of when the service will be available.
Rachel Hack, community manager for Google Fiber, said in a blog post that they have a &quot;lot of planning and engineering work to do before we&#039;re ready to bring Fiber to Shawnee.&quot;
Google said that the debut of its fiber service fits in well with Shawnee&#039;s mentality of using technology to help support residents and businesses.  
&quot;We&#039;ve also been impressed by Shawnee&#039;s vision to keep their citizens informed and involved using the Internet,&quot; wrote Hack. &quot;Recently, the City modernized their website, so that locals can easily access city info--from crime maps to fiscal reports to streamed audio of city council meetings.&quot;
	
	After city officials voted to approve the service provider&#039;s move to bring their service to the city, Google and the city announced the news together.   
&quot;The ultra-high speed Google fiber network will enhance the quality of life for people in Shawnee by providing faster access to essential digital resources,&quot; said Shawnee&#039;s Mayor Jeff Meyers in a release announcing the new agreement. &quot;This will grow and strengthen Shawnee&#039;s competitive advantage in the years to come.&quot;
While it&#039;s still unclear how broad Google Fiber is going to go with its FTTH plans, it is prompting two of the top telcos--AT&amp;T and CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL)--to reveal their own 1 Gbps plans.
CenturyLink announced this week that it would begin a 1 Gbps FTTH pilot deployment in Omaha, while AT&amp;T earlier in the month revealed its plans for a similar network in Austin.
For more:
	- see this blog post
	- see the city&#039;s release
Special report: The Contenders: Municipal fiber providers meeting or beating the incumbent competition
Editor&#039;s Corner: Is AT&amp;T&#039;s 1 Gig response to Google Fiber real or fantasy?
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	Google Fiber comes to Austin, mayor announces
	CenturyLink launches 1 Gbps fiber pilot in Omaha
	Google&#039;s iProvo purchase draws fire from Utah-based XMission
	Google Fiber to buy iProvo network, upgrade Utah city to 1 Gbps]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 10:20:01 CDT</pubDate>
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