The 9-figure quarterly operating losses on other bets like Access, Calico, CapitalG, Nest, GV, Verily, Waymo, and X could be a depressing (not inspiring) thing for some Alphabet investors. Waymo now has a paper valuation of $70 billion, but it is still obviously one of those costly hobbies right now. Waymo is not yet accretive to Alphabet.
Alphabet’s “other Bets” Cost The Company $859 Million Last Quarter And $3
CHR engineering specializes in PON and active Ethernet fiber design but has expertise in other communications technologies, including xDSL and fixed wireless. CHR provides billing, customer management, business and network operations(B/OSS) and outsourced managed IT/NOC services. The evolution of the B/OSS product continues. Its new Omnia360 customer management functionality enables handling rapid customer growth. The system also includes real-time analytics to support better business intelligence and easy implementation of subscription-based prepaid services. New customers include Alaska Communications, Beacon Broadband, CobbEMC, Cross Telephone, Gila River Telecommunications, IQ Fiber and Point Broadband. New customers include Alaska Communications, Beacon Broadband, CobbEMC, Cross Telephone, Gila River Telecommunications and Point Broadband. For example, Beacon Broadband, a Coos-Curry Electric Cooperative (CCEC) subsidiary in southern Oregon, is building a new, rural, fiber-to-the-premises network and selected Omnia360 as its business software solution. The company is headquartered in Houston.
Comcast acquired Deep Blue Communications, which provides engineering, installation and commercial Wi-Fi network management services. Meanwhile, its IoT subsidiary, machineQ, collaborates with Neptune Technology Group to accelerate smart-city projects for advanced water metering and infrastructure. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Comcast raised the speeds of its Internet Essentials offering for low-income subscribers from 15/2 Mbps to 25/3 Mbps for all new and existing customers. New families that connect will get 60 days of free internet service. This year, Comcast increased speeds for its most popular Xfinity internet tiers, providing an extra boost for millions of residential customers across 14 northeastern states, from Maine through Virginia and the District of Columbia. The company also announced it is adopting advanced hollow core fiber to serve as the foundation for its faster 10G network, capable of 10 Gbps internet speeds. By the end of 2021, Comcast Cable had 34.2 million customer relationships. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Comcast Cable is a division of Comcast Corporation. Comcast Corporation reported $116.3 billion in revenue for 2021 revenue.
Cox has been a leader in bridging the digital divide for low-income families with school-age children through its Connect2Compete internet offer. It increased program speeds and helped connect more than 60,000 new customers during the pandemic. The company also pledged $60 million to close the digital learning gap. Cox doubled the download speed of its low-cost internet options ConnectAssist and Connect2Compete from 50 Mbps to 100 Mbps, effective March 31, 2022. The company also joined White House officials to announce a partnership with the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), which will give eligible households access to its 100 Mbps high-speed internet service at no cost. Cox Communications is the largest division of Cox Enterprises, a family-owned business founded in 1898 by James M. Cox, who served three terms as governor of Ohio. Cox Communities is the division that delivers solutions to MDU owners, managers and developers, SFU developers, and the residents and owners within their communities to support them in optimizing rents and occupancy and making their properties future-ready.
Summary: These days, it seems like Harrison Edwards is involved in just about every aspect of the fiber broadband industry. The integrated marketing and public relations company emerged in the mid-2010s and helped shape modern-day community engagement strategies for broadband projects. Since then, it has widened its reach to provide stakeholder engagement services, customer acquisition strategies and political advocacy. The company works with network operators, ISPs, engineering firms, construction companies, software vendors, public agencies, and nonprofit organizations to help drive broadband access and adoption. In the last year, it has helped drive advocacy efforts on behalf of the Vermont CUD Association with NTIA, launched stakeholder campaigns for clients such as SiFi Networks and Fujitsu, and developed marketing and customer acquisition strategies for UTOPIA Fiber, Yellowstone Fiber, Traverse City Light & Power, and many others.
Summary: PPC is a leading manufacturer and developer of connectivity and network optimization solutions for worldwide broadband and wireless service providers. PPC offers award-winning xTTx designs for fiber optics, construction hardware, ancillary products and more through technical leadership and innovative services. PPC continues to expand its fiber product roadmap and holds more patents in connector technology than any other company worldwide. In recent years, PPC has grown its fiber portfolio through research and development and the addition of well-known brands such as OPTERNA, SPC, Net-Tech Technology (NT2) and M2FX. This year, PPC acquired Communication Associates Inc., resulting in the addition of RF plug-in attenuators to its product portfolio. PPC also recently achieved TL 9000 certification in multiple facilities, covering most of its fiber products portfolio, including its fiber optic cables, cable assemblies, passive optical devices, enclosures and optical assemblies. PPC Broadband is a wholly owned subsidiary of Belden. It is headquartered in East Syracuse, New York, with two additional U.S. locations and other facilities in China, Denmark, Germany, India, Mexico, St. Kitts, Tunisia and the United Kingdom.
The vendor was selected by the Mexican government-run Comisión Federal de Electricidad in 2020 to connect remote regions with high-speed broadband. Prysmian also supplies 770 km of submarine telecom cables for the Norte Conectado project awarded by Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa, a Brazilian internet provider connecting the city of Macapá to Santarém and Alenquer, which are in the north of the Amazon region. Through this strategy, Prysmian directly enables connectivity across 59 municipalities in northern Brazil, possibly extending it to other Amazonian countries. It also continues to drive fiber innovations. In 2021, Prysmian joined Nokia Bell Labs and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology to demonstrate one petabit per second transmission over an optical fiber with standard dimensions. This year, the company announced it is investing an additional $30 million to the $85 million already reported last year to increase optical fiber cable capacity and capability in plants in North America. Prysmian is headquartered in Milan, Italy.
Adams now applies its experience and customer service spirit to help other rural providers plan and build their own FTTH networks. The company formed a new subsidiary, CheckPoint Solutions, in 2016, to share its expertise with other small companies that wanted to build FTTH in underserved communities and guide them through a software-developed automation process from beginning to end. CheckPoint Solutions counts several other independent companies as clients, such as Loretto Telecom and Green Hills Communications, and has been responsible for helping telcos and utility companies from coast to coast successfully build thousands of fiberhoods across the U.S. at more than 2.8 million service addresses. CheckPoint Solutions transitions raw data to actionable intelligence, fueling efficiency through automation, growth through demand generation and employee empowerment, and expansion through strategic direction and faster ROI. The CheckPoint Solutions platform is specifically designed to meet the needs of broadband providers deploying next-generation services. From the initial planning, through designing, building, selling, managing and driving growth, CheckPoint serves as a single point of operational coordination. Adams Telephone Co-Operative, founded in 1952 and based in Golden, Illinois, has 115 employees.
AEG is headquartered in Buford, Georgia, but deploys in-house personnel and on-site project managers globally. It performs project management, service planning, engineering, underground and aerial construction, splicing, testing and many other professional and technical services. It has completed or is currently working on design or build commissions for more than 130 networks, including 65 FTTH projects totaling more than 50,000 fiber route miles that pass more than 2.6 million homes in 29 states. Some of the most recent have been in Colorado, Tennessee, New York and Vermont.
New and existing customers can take advantage of its Smart Wi-Fi solution. Powered by smart-home services provider Plume, Smart Wi-Fi improves coverage while offering online security. Alabama communities are seeing multiple construction starts and deployments after C Spire announced a $1 billion investment to speed the availability of FTTH networks. About $500 million is marked for fiber expansion in Alabama over a five-year period. In April, the company began construction on an FTTH network in Tuscaloosa County and is accepting consumer preorders. Construction also began in the north Shelby County cities of Helena and Pelham with Alabaster expected to start soon, and the company began connecting customers in Jasper. Headquartered in Ridgeland, Mississippi, C Spire has 1,499 employees.
Summary: Fujitsu Network Communications, based in Richardson, Texas, builds middle-mile and last-mile fiber and wireless networks, partnering with states, municipalities and utilities. The company works with customers or their consultants to plan, design, build, operate and maintain broadband networks, delivering custom, end-to-end network integration. Fujitsu offers a vendor-agnostic approach to provide turnkey solutions for FTTx implementations with the best of multivendor wireline, wireless and software technology. It has served as a prime integrator for high-profile projects that include an FTTH deployment by Kit Carson Electric Cooperative in Taos, New Mexico, and a middle-mile network for Horizon Telcom in southern and eastern Ohio. Another key project was serving as prime network integrator for municipal broadband provider FairlawnGig; Fujitsu currently maintains the network. A recent online survey revealed overall customer satisfaction with FairlawnGig is 94 percent. Traverse City (Michigan) Light & Power also tapped Fujitsu, launching a gigabit broadband service for businesses, public facilities and residents in fall 2019. 2ff7e9595c
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