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| 05.05.2010 |
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Clearwire, Comcast, TWC and Sprint Announce More WiMAX Markets
Clearwire, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Sprint have announced plans to launch their respective 4G mobile Internet services to additional cities in the summer of 2010. Each of the companies will offer 4G under their own 4G brand: Clearwire to offer CLEAR...
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| 04.13.2010 |
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Mutually Assured Destruction?
The FCC has tough choices to make on net neutrality. But could the simple threat alone be enough to ensure the Internet remains open?...
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| 04.06.2010 |
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Another CableFAX Show!
Proving that last month's triumphant return wasn't "just a dream," Mike and Seth return for another edition of The CableFAX Show—this time to pontificate about Verizon's decision to wind down its FIOS expansion, discuss the latest cable pioneers and, of course, draw on the connection between modern-day cable dramas and the 1983 broadcast mini-series "V."...
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| 03.30.2010 |
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The FIOS Freeze
The good news for cable is that Verizon has decided to wind down its expansion of FIOS. And the bad news? Verizon has decided to wind down its expansion of FIOS....
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| 03.30.2010 |
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A Computer in Every Home?
When the FCC recently released stats supporting its National Broadband Plan, it emphasized that cost and digital literacy are the main barriers to broadband adoption. But Leichtman Research concludes that cost plays a relatively minor role. It’s really...
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| 03.16.2010 |
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The Convergence Resurgence
With Internet-enabled consoles now connecting to TVs everywhere, the idea of "convergence" is back in a big way. But it's not likely to take the form most consumers dream about. And for good reason....
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| 03.02.2010 |
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3DTV... It's Coming—But How?
3DTV is on an inevitable track toward some form of mass adoption. But how big will it get and how fast? It may come down to how the industry tackles several hurdles, as well as consumer acceptance. In the meantime, secure those seatbelts and get ready for a wild ride....
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| 02.23.2010 |
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Google's Fiber Project - All About Mindshare
Peter Shapiro of PDS Consulting argues that Google's broadband "experiment" is more focused on mindshare than market share—with the goal of re-shaping perceptions and ultimately the way existing broadband networks are used....
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| 02.01.2010 |
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Digital Touch Points
Separable security has won no popularity contests, but the experiment has generated changes, such as the introduction of DVB-CSA. Separable security: it remains a contentious battlefield, littered with casualties, competing claims and capital expenditures. In...
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| 02.01.2010 |
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Comcast Update: What is a CMAP?
Among several trends impacting the access architecture over the past few years has been an increase in the number of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) channels used for narrowcast services. Most MSOs are deploying more and more unicast QAM channels to...
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| 01.12.2010 |
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The Avatar Factor
The battle over Comcast's bandwidth management is heating up in federal court and could determine the future of the Internet. But are consumers in this epic story under threat or simply the precious metal that everyone wants to mine?...
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| 01.01.2010 |
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Communications Technology: Smart Home: Echostar Touts Sling to Cable
EchoStar is trying to convince cable operators to buy Sling technology-enabled set-top boxes. The Sling-loaded set-tops can deliver cable TV content to other devices, such as laptops and mobile phones...
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| 12.22.2009 |
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Review - Comcast's Fancast Xfinity TV Beta
CableFAX Exec Editor Michael Grebb reviews Comcast's answer to authentication, its "Xfinity"-branded service through Fancast. Bottom line: It's not perfect by any stretch (thus, the "beta" designation), but Comcast does a lot of things right in its first iteration of TV Everywhere....
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| 11.16.2009 |
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Slow Going for Mobile Video
Guest columnist Peter Shapiro of PDS Consulting sees speed bumps and congestion on the way to the third video screen....
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| 11.01.2009 |
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Broadband: What is a Micro-Reflection?
The study of transmission lines often begins with the assumption that a signal source, a lossless transmission line, and load have equal impedances. Under that scenario, all of an incident wave’s power transmitted from the source is absorbed by the...
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| 11.01.2009 |
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Reality Check: A Trillion Devices?
Remember "seamless mobility," the campaign that Motorola rolled out at the NCTA Show in San Francisco in 2005? Nearly five years later, the infrastructure required to make seamless connectivity and "IP everywhere" a reality is moving into...
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| 10.20.2009 |
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Guest Column — Time Shifting... Better than Ever
Paul Hockenbury, Comcast's Executive Director of Research and Analysis, argues that time shifting has yet to run its full course and predicts continued growth as more consumers embrace anywhere/anytime viewing....
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| 10.01.2009 |
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Business Services: Ethernet Makes Sense
Businesses seeking to cut costs while satisfying needs for faster data rates are driving demand for carrier Ethernet. Bolstering the technology are advanced specifications, increasing its appeal among some wireless carriers. But while cell backhaul is a major...
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| 09.01.2009 |
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Bullpen: The Big Gun Idea
The cable industry’s narrowcast-generated services coupled with strategic implementation of time and frequency division multiplexing (TDM and FDM) has created an unrivaled and sustainable network. Yet this current converged network of voice, video and...
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| 09.01.2009 |
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IPTV: A Cable Perspective
Key drivers, three scenarios and elementary architecture...
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