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| 04.22.2010 |
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CenturyLink and Qwest Agree to Merge in $22.4 Billion Deal
CenturyLink and Qwest Communications announced today that their boards of directors have approved a definitive agreement under which CenturyLink will acquire Qwest in a tax-free, stock-for-stock transaction. Based on the closing stock price of CenturyLink on...
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| 02.25.2010 |
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Cox Business Links Remote Sites in OK
Cox Business announced today that it is providing an advanced data network to support OklaVision, a pioneering online network focused on the rich cultural and travel attractions located across the state of Oklahoma. To create visual variety for its viewers...
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| 02.23.2010 |
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Mediacom Earns with Local Loop
At the opening session of the NCTC’s Winter Educational Conference yesterday in Long Beach, CA, two executives from Mediacom Communications shared lessons on using fiber for wholesale and business-class services. Dominick DePaola, senior director of...
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| 02.23.2010 |
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Sigma Partners for Hosted Provisioning
Sigma Systems announced today a partnership with American Technical Support to offer a hosted solution for device provisioning for NCTC members. Through American Technical Support, NCTC members will now have access to Sigma Systems’ carrier-grade device...
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| 02.23.2010 |
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Jones/NCTI Tool Boosts Efficiency
Jones/NCTI introduced today its LogiCALL Smart Path, a decision-tree methodology screen guide for contact center agents. Accessed through an agent’s desktop, the guide directs agents through a series of questions and answers, enabling them to resolve...
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| 02.19.2010 |
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PPC To Acquire Evolution Broadband
PPC, a maker of telecommunications connectors, has agreed in principle to acquire Evolution Broadband, a supplier of home distribution and subscriber drop systems for the North American cable and telecommunications market. PPC will leverage the sales and new...
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| 02.16.2010 |
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Neustar Touts Wireless Chops
The search for smart ways to make up the gap between subscriber revenue and demands on broadband wireless infrastructure is proceeding in earnest. This week’s venue for exploring that challenge is the Mobile World Congress 2010 (MWC) in Barcelona Spain...
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| 02.12.2010 |
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Shaw Purchases Controlling Interest in Canwest
Shaw Communications announced today it has entered into agreements with Canwest Global Communications, regarding the acquisition of a minimum 20 percent equity interest and 80 percent voting interest, which includes effective control, of a restructured...
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| 02.11.2010 |
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CMC Improves Ad Delivery
The Comcast Media Center (CMC) has upgraded its AdDelivery product to fully automate the delivery of ads. “I think you’d be surprised that there’s still a lot of manual work,” said Gary Traver, SVP and COO with the CMC, referring to...
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| 02.09.2010 |
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Ops Pick Jinni at CableLabs Confab
As part of its Winter Conference, CableLabs held its Innovation Showcase yesterday. Eleven companies were chosen to participate in the event where they were given ten minutes to explain and demonstrate one of their products to an audience of cable provider...
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| 01.13.2010 |
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Advanced Ads Slow Go for Small Ops
Building an advanced advertising business model replete with edgy new technologies is a small cable operator’s dream. The harsh reality is that without the scale, capital and engineering-savvy to drive the model, an advanced advertising strategy is just...
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| 01.12.2010 |
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Moto Helps Retailers Calculate Wireless LAN Costs
The Enterprise Mobility Solutions business unit of Motorola announced a Wireless LAN cost calculation service that enables customers to correctly calculate the complete costs of their investment in wireless WLAN infrastructure and wireless services on a...
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| 01.04.2010 |
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BendBroadband Grows Its Own Wireless
BendBroadband’s decision to launch a wireless data network to customers in central Oregon brings the potential of 15 Mbps service over a homegrown network built from scratch. The smallish Oregon-based service provider’s combination of licensed...
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| 12.15.2009 |
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Cablevision Does E-Commerce
Although AT&T has had a consumer electronics presence going back to forever when the then-monopoly sold outrageously overpriced phones to its customers, service providers on the cable side have not gotten into the CE business in a significant way. But...
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| 12.08.2009 |
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ACA Wants Close Scrutiny of Comcast-NBCU Deal
The American Cable Association is urging regulators to scrutinize the proposed Comcast-NBC Universal transaction and take appropriate action, whether through conditions or forced divestiture, to prevent the new programming giant from using its enhanced market...
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| 12.03.2009 |
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Cox Eyes Revenue from Healthcare
Cox Communications Inc. expects to generate $2 billion annually from selling high-speed Internet, phone and video service to commercial customers within six years, and the company expects the health care industry to eventually become the biggest vertical...
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| 12.02.2009 |
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Multicast Ready for Comeback
The multicast protocol for adding broadcast-like functionality to the Internet has been around for nearly two decades. Various technical limitations, however, have impeded its widespread adoption. Could it be making a comeback? Yes, if for no other reason...
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| 08.25.2009 |
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SIP and IMS Update: Comcast Talks
News regarding IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) technology often comes in batches, driven partly by the cycle of IMS Forum ‘Plugfests.’ The group held its seventh such event June 1-9 at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab (UNH IOL)...
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| 05.01.2009 |
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Cable Eyes Online Video
As cable embraces the "anywhere, anytime, on any device" theme, new issues arise around media management....
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| 05.01.2009 |
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Paradigm Shifts: Remote Storage DVR
RS-DVR poses a dilemma: infinite content ingest, infinite storage per user, yet finite streaming to the home....
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