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Independent Telco Gets 24% of Business Revenue from Mobile Backhaul

Saturday, October 29th, 2011
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Of $13.6 billion in business revenue earned by SureWest Communications in the third quarter of 2011, about 24 percent was earned directly from providing wireless backhaul service.

“Revenue growth from wireless carrier backhaul in the Sacramento market also provided a significant impact, and we are now billing for 280 connections that generate $3.2 million in annualized revenues,” said CEO Steve Oldham. “We have contracts in place for 390 connections and anticipate over $4 million in annualized revenues when those sites are active.”

SureWest Communications quarterly results


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Mobile Backhaul Grows 80% at Time Warner Cable

Thursday, October 27th, 2011
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Mobile backhaul has become a strong driver of revenue growth, at least in percentage terms, for Time Warner Cable.

Though smaller revenue contributors than any of the residential services, business high-speed data grew at a 16.7 percent annual rate, while business voice revenues grew 57 percent and wholesale transport grew 80 percent year over year.  Time Warner Cable loses residential voice customers

Wholesale revenue was paced by mobile tower backhaul revenues.

Time Warner Cable grew its residential voice services revenue, but lost subscribers in its third quarter of 2011. The loss was slight, about 8,000 customer accounts on a base of about 4.5 million, but shows that voice is no longer a leading contributor to Time Warner Cable residential customer revenue growth. Neither is video, where Time Warner Cable lost 128,000 accounts.

High-speed data continued to grow revenues and subscribers, but is was business services that are showing the fastest growth rates.


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Verizon Will Use Small Cells

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
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Verizon Wireless will deploy small cell technology to supplement its Long Term Evolution coverage and help manage its network capacity. “Small cells are one way we will keep up with the growth,” said Verizon Wireless’ executive vice president of network planning, Bill Stone. Verizon to use small cells to supplement LTE

That has obvious implications for mobile backhaul, including the likely need for more-affordable access circuits than are used to support macro cells. Up to this point, femtocells have been seen as tools to give consumers better in-home voice coverage. In an increasing number of cases, though, small cells will be used by carriers to beef up bandwidth in congested urban areas.


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