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AT&T's Donovan Gets Bigger Role in Post-TWX Org: Reports If regulators approve AT&T's $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner, John Donovan could lead the helm of a larger division within the service provider, according to reports. Under the reorganized company, AT&T would split into a "Comcast-like" structure, according to Seeking Alpha. Time Warner would be a separate media division under the stewardship of John Stankey, who currently runs DirecTV and other entertainment assets, wrote Bloomberg. Currently the chief strategy officer and group president of AT&T Technology and Operation, Donovan would head wireless and wireline, as well as DirecTV, the report said. Randall Stephenson is slated to remain as chairman and CEO. One Comcast executive oversees the company's cable operations; another is responsible for NBCUniversal. Related posts:
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In a flurry of activity throughout the week, Donald (DJ) LaVoy, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the US Department of Agriculture, and his team spent about $145.8 million in the non-urban or suburban areas of seven states.
Calix reported revenue of $120.19 million – up 4% – in Q4 2019, putting a bounce in the step of company president and CEO Carl Russo and a shine to Calix's ongoing transition from hardware vendor to a provider of platforms enabled by cloud, APIs and subscriber experience.
Looking to curtail e-waste and improve the bottom line, BT will require customers to return routers and set-top boxes, although subscribers will not have to pay a fee when they receive regular broadband equipment.
The industry standards organization is looking to ease operator pain from residential WiFi, while it also sees initiatives in connected home and other projects bear fruit.
Deploying DOCSIS 3.1 across its entire footprint gave Rogers Communications the ability to offer speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s,
contributing to a broadband segement that generated about 60% of the Canadian operator's $3.05 billion (US) in Q4 cable earnings.
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