Cable / Telecom News

Compton targets business market with a North America first

PHILADELPHIA and UTICA, Ont. – Compton Communications is a small Canadian cable company but one that has never shied away from innovation. It was one of the first MSO’s to launch SVOD and has offered HD and digital for far longer than other operators its size (around 5,000 subscribers) and today, Compton and its primary supplier, Motorola, announced it would deploy Moto’s fibre to the home (FTTH) solution for the launch of its all-fibre network and new commercial service offerings. This will be the first deployment of Motorola’s Gigabit Passive Optical Networking (GPON) technology within the cable industry and within...