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Tele Columbus Rebrands as PYUR After multiple acquisitions over the years, Germany's third-largest cable provider, Tele Columbus, will rename itself PYUR and hone its business focus. Having formerly kept the original names of its acquired businesses, by mid-2018 Tele Columbus expects all units to function under the PYUR name. It also plans to "concentrate on monthly tariffs and pure Internet traffic," according to German news site Golem.de. Regional brands currently operating as primacom, HL komm and cablesurf gradually will be rebranded as PYUR as the operator does business under a single name under the Tele Columbus Group. "Simplicity, transparency and fairness will be the guiding principles of all PYUR products," said Ronny Verbelst, CEO of Tele Columbus Group, in a statement. In 2016, Tele Columbus deployed a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) or fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) network in Bavaria said to be capable of 1Gbp/s speeds by year-end. GPON carries the signal and fiber and the network connects to the provider's dark fiber PoP in Unterföhring, to Golem.de. Verbelst is scheduled to leave Tele Columbus on Feb. 1, 2018, to move back to his native Belgium. Timm Degenhardt, chief commercial officer at Swiss service provider Sunrise Communications , is slated to take the helm at that time. Degenhardt reportedly joined Tele Columbus' management board in August (although his LinkedIn profile shows him still employed at Sunrise). "With the upcoming introduction of a new and consolidated brand in autumn 2017, I will have accomplished my mission at Tele Columbus to make the company fit for the future," Verbelst said in a July statement. 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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