Cable CIO Focus: Business Services Replenish Coffers

Lead Story - December 01, 2014 Business Services Replenish Coffers As residential customers continue to cut the cord, cable telecommunications firms are increasingly focusing their sights on commercial customers, offering broadband, video, voice, hosting and cloud-computing services that generate healthy margins and foster long-term relationships. Initially, most operators had basically offered their triple-play services to small and midsized businesses. Today, the business-services segment has expanded into new products and is catering to bigger, national clients. Read More» Top Stories MidCo Guns For 1-Gig Midcontinent Communications is tossing its hat into the 1-Gig ring. The MSO has introduced the "Gigait Frontier Initiative," a plan that aims to bring gigabit speeds to about 600,000 homes and 55,000 businesses across its footprint South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota, fed by a fiber network that extends more than 7,600 miles, over the next three years. Read More» TWC Makes A Telemedicine Connection Expanding its reach into a new growth market, Time Warner Cable Business Class has inked a deal to help OhioHealth remotely provide care to patients throughout the state. Read More» Comcast Business Diversifies Its Cloud Comcast Business, the commercial services arm of Comcast, has launched a new hybrid data center and cloud program designed to give customers of its Ethernet platform more flexible and efficient access to critical tasks and functions such as data storage/backup, billing, and Web site hosting. Read More» Google Fiber Starts To Get Down To Business Google Fiber will be putting more pressure on incumbent providers in the Kansas City area as it prepares to launch services tailored for business customers. Read More» WOW! Means Business In Maryland WOW! Business, the commercial services arm of WideOpenWest, has extended service to Anne Arundel County, Md., entering the market through a majority ownership interest in Broadstripe. Read More» News For Time Warner Cable, How Significant Can Business Services Be?» Charter Gains on Digital, Broadband Upgrades» Mediacom Business: We got Gigabit too» US Telecom Petitions FCC To Drop 'Archaic' Regs» Alcatel-Lucent Gets Down To Business With WOW!»   ©2014 NewBay Media, LLC

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