Comcast, Google On Even ARRIS Footing
ARRIS Group is selling some 10.6 million shares to Comcast, which will bring the MSO into parity with Google, with each owning approximately 7.85 percent of the outstanding ARRIS stock. The $150 million sale is part of the ARRIS/Motorola Home Business acquisition and was designed to reduce, on a share-for-share basis, the number of shares of ARRIS stock to be issued to Google while financing the Motorola Home deal. It also gives Comcast a piece of the home automation/set-top-box vendor action, important pieces of any future cableco business plan.
 
Psssst…Wanna Buy Some IPv4 Addresses?
With IPv6 transition time counting down and IPv4 numbers pretty much gone, many operators are looking to forestall disaster by purchasing additional IPv4 addresses on the open market rather than mounting a full-scale changeout. “Telecom and cloud CEOs should be concerned about how critically important something as historically insignificant as IP addresses will become when none are left,” says Gregory Nachtwey, a director at Berkeley Research Group LLC, a provider of intellectual-property and technology-asset valuation services. BRG has been touting secure migration services. One thing to keep in mind: Those addresses aren’t cheap; Microsoft reportedly offered to pay more than $11 per IPv4 address nearly two years ago.

The Daily

Subscribe
Friday–June 27

USF Prevails: Supreme Court Upholds FCC Subsidy Program

The FCC’s Universal Service Fund survived a legal challenge that claimed the $8 billion subsidy program is unconstitutional as currently constructed.

Read the Full Issue
The Skinny is delivered on Tuesday and focuses on the cable profession. You'll stay in the know on the headlines, topics and special issues you value most. Sign Up

Calendar

Sep 11
2025 Faxies Awards Faxies Nominations Open! Final deadline: 4/4/25
Full Calendar

Jobs

Seeking an INDUSTRY JOB or hiring for one?
VIEW JOBS

In conjunction with our sister brand, Cynopsis, we are offering hiring managers a deep pool of media-savvy, skilled candidates at a range of experience levels and sectors. The result will be an even more robust industry job board, to help both employers and job seekers.

Contact Carley Ashley, [email protected], for more information about posting a job on the website and our Jobs newsletter, sent twice weekly to 85,000 media professionals.