1. Cable Firms Hit Phone Grip on Hospitals: Tech - Businessweek Explore BusinessWeek (Feb 13 2012) Business Ethernet , Cable / MSO Comcast’s Metro Ethernet network, introduced in May 2011, is targeted to business customers, including hospitals. The company can transport data at faster speeds than traditional phone company Internet connection, said Kevin O’Toole, Comcast’s senior vice president of product management and strategy for business services. A hospital can download a 500 megabyte digital X-ray in 40 seconds with Metro Ethernet, a file that would take 44 minutes to download with a slower connection, said Jennifer Khoury, a Comcast spokeswoman. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   AT&T Inc.   Verizon Communications Inc.   Time Warner Cable

2. Cable Players Turn to Offices as Home Video Growth Slows Explore BusinessWeek (Jun 13 2011) Business Ethernet , Metro Ethernet , Cable / MSO , Other analysts U.S. cable companies in search of growth are having more luck at the office than at home. To kickstart growth, cable companies are going corporate. They’re offering businesses fast and secure Internet service, wireless connections in offices and cheaper phone plans. Comcast and Time Warner Cable, the country’s two largest cable operators, each estimate the potential revenue from small- and medium-sized businesses in their respective markets is more than $20 billion. (Read Full Article)

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3. CenturyTel to buy Qwest for $10.6B Explore BusinessWeek (Apr 22 2010) Managed Data Services , Local , Regional CenturyTel to buy Qwest for $10.6B Qwest has been investing heavily in upgrading its network backbone in order to offer businesses 100G bps Ethernet services. CenturyTel expects much of the ...and more » (Read Full Article)

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4. Archive: The Road to WiMAX Explore BusinessWeek (Mar 30 2010) The $90 billion gardening bill was a deal killer. Intel corp. ( INTC ) Executive Vice-President Sean M. Maloney sat in stunned silence after a telephone company executive told him it would cost $1,100 per home just to replace landscaping and sidewalks if the industry installed fiber-optic cabling and brought superfast broadband Internet access to every single-family home in America. (Read Full Article)

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