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| 09.01.2010 |
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Report: New U.K. Wireless Entity Nips At The Mighty BT
With the recent merger of T-Mobile and Orange in the U.K., the new operator, dubbed “Everything Everywhere,” now is leading the wireless pack, according to Pyramid Research. Giant BT is projected to lose 6 percent of its marketshare, in line with...
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| 08.30.2010 |
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Clearwire Targets Young Urbanites with Prepaid Mobile Hotspot Service
The latest offering from Clearwire Corporation is a prepaid, 4G mobile hotspot service and pair of devices targeting 18-to-24-year-old city dwellers. Clearwire’s new “Rover” branded 4G broadband service is priced at $5/day, $20/week or...
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| 08.26.2010 |
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Cisco's Acquisition of ExtendMedia May Help its Networking Business
Cisco intends to acquire privately-held ExtendMedia, a provider of software-based Content Management Systems (CMS) that manage the entire lifecycle of IP video content. ExtendMedia is based in Newton, Mass., with the majority of its employee base in Toronto...
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| 08.23.2010 |
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Comcast Uses Broadcom Chips for Faster Channel Surfing
At a media event in Denver last week, Broadcom Corporation demonstrated its new system-on-a-chip (SoC) to speed up channel change times by a factor of five. Its FastRTV channel change acceleration technology is now available in a wide range of Broadcom...
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| 08.19.2010 |
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Clearfield Beefs Up Online Fiber-Management Community
For those who want to read more “insider information” regarding fiber management, Clearfield Inc. is offering a new section of its Fiberpuzzle.com site that offers just that. “The Fiber Color Pages” now features monthly online...
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| 08.17.2010 |
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Picocell Wins CableLabs 'Most Likely To Succeed' Kudos
Sometimes it pays to stand apart from the crowd. At yesterday's CableLabs Summer Conference Innovation Showcase, most of the products were related to video, and many of them had something to do with home networking. But a wireless product was voted "most...
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| 08.16.2010 |
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Go2Broadband vs. BillShrink: Friends or Foes?
CableLabs has a Web site (https://locator.go2broadband.com/) where potential broadband customers can search for a provider in their areas. (For more, click here). Go2Broadband has been around for 10 years, but is it effective? Larry Gowin, senior product...
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| 08.11.2010 |
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Advanced Ads: Connecting The Internet, Mobile And Cable Dots
Crafting the elusive business model for advanced advertising and its multiple revenue-generating mediums and devices takes a combination of technical and engineering smarts and strategic, visionary business savvy. The payoff, experts maintain, will be...
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| 08.10.2010 |
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Google, Verizon And The Future Of The Internet
After a year of negotiations, Google and Verizon have issued what they are calling “a shared statement of principles” regarding network neutrality. The proposal would prevent service providers from prioritizing traffic or blocking or...
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| 08.09.2010 |
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FCC Fronts Loosening Wireless Backhaul Microwave Regs
Taking its cue from its own National Broadband Plan, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing to remove regulatory barriers to the use of microwave spectrum for wireless backhaul. “By enabling more flexible, cost-effective...
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| 08.05.2010 |
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LightSquared Defines Wholesale Model, Jumps Into 4G Space
LightSquared’s $7 billion decision to build a 4G network and then wholesale its spectrum and services to wireless carriers and other service providers (including cable) now is in play and could mean a quicker time-to-market business model for a variety...
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| 08.04.2010 |
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Knology Buys Sunflower Broadband In All-Cash Deal
After much media speculation, Knology Inc. confirmed today it will acquire incumbent cable operator Sunflower Broadband for $165 million in cash, in a deal expected to close during the fourth quarter. The addition of Sunflower, which operates in Douglas...
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| 07.29.2010 |
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Live From The Independent Show: Living With The ‘Frenemy’
Debunking all the talk of cable customers “cutting the cord,” Stewart Schley, One Touch Intelligence’s senior director/industry intelligence, was quick to tell Independent Show attendees at the show’s closing session that there were...
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| 07.28.2010 |
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Why DFB Lasers May Be Insufficient in DOCSIS 3.0 Upstreams
Cable operators that want to maximize the value of their hybrid fiber coax (HFC) networks are deploying DOCSIS 3.0 channel-bonding technologies to increase capacity and to compete with telcos' all-fiber networks. However, there are two drawbacks when it comes...
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| 07.28.2010 |
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Live From The Independent Show: What Does ‘Video Is Dead’ Really Mean?
Fasten your seatbelts; it’s going to be a bumpy flight. Some 18 months ago, outspoken analyst Laura Martin of Media Metrics LLC told NCTC/ACA members “capitalism is dead,” and they’re still talking about that panel. This time around...
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| 07.27.2010 |
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Live From The Independent Show: World Domination, One Home at a Time
BALTIMORE — At the opening session of the NCTC/ACA-sponsored Independent Show in Baltimore, Atlantic Broadband President and COO Ed Holleran said he happily views the multiples Bresnan got in its recent sale to Cablevision as “a good start after...
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| 07.26.2010 |
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Alcatel-Lucent Optimizes Microsoft Mediaroom for Small Telco IPTV Play
Alcatel-Lucent is targeting Tier 2 and Tier 3 telcos with a new IPTV turnkey solution that uses Microsoft Mediaroom middleware. Indiana-based provider Cinergy MetroNet today launched the service in six Indiana cities, reaching approximately 50,000 potential...
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| 07.21.2010 |
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FCC Report Tweaks National Broadband Plan Goals, Garners Mixed Reviews In House
The FCC concluded in its Sixth Broadband Deployment Report released yesterday that between 14 million and 24 million Americans still lack access to broadband, adding “the immediate prospects for deployment to them are bleak.” Also known as the...
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| 07.20.2010 |
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SCTE Taps Daniel Howard As New CTO
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) has hired Daniel Howard as its first CTO. Howard has a diverse cable background. He co-founded and served as CTO of Digital Furnace (acquired by Broadcom in 2000), where he continued working as...
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| 07.19.2010 |
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GIS Does Serviceability, Monitoring
CableLabs will be hosting a GIS/Location Intelligence workshop Aug. 17-18, in conjunction with its summer conference in Keystone, Colo., set for Aug. 15-18. The workshop will focus on how service providers are using geographical information systems (GIS)...
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