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08/15/2012
Chicago Tops U.S. ‘Internet Essentials’ Take-Up
Earlier today, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Comcast Executive Vice President David L. Cohen, and civic and community leaders kicked off the second year of Comcast’s “Internet Essentials” broadband program designed to help close the digital divide among low-income Americans. In its first full year of availability, nearly 100,000 families (400,000 individuals) signed up for the […]
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08/14/2012
To Market, To Market 08/14/12
San Francisco-based independent ad network InMobi says mobile ranks first in media consumption among Americans, at 2.4 hours of the 9 hours spent consuming media on mobile devices and outpacing TV (2.35 hours), PCs (1.6 hours) and any other channel. In addition, U.S. mobile users are acclimating to mobile ads; they now have the largest […]
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08/14/2012
Survey Sez 08/14/12
Corning MobileAccess has been ranked Number One in the latest Distributed Antenna System (DAS) equipment vendor matrix released by ABI Research, followed by Commscope and TE Connectivity. The top three companies on ABI’s “innovation scale” include Corning MobileAccess, Zinwave and Alvarion, while the top three companies on it “implementation scale” are Commscope, Corning MobileAccess and […]
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08/14/2012
Global Connections 08/14/12
Mobile-messaging provider Clickatell says it will continue to work with InSTEDD (Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases and Disasters) to leverage wireless communication tools to help “solve the world’s greatest humanitarian challenges,” adding, “When it absolutely has to be there, regardless of device, time of day, type of network, people turn to SMS. This is why […]
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08/14/2012
New Stuff 08/14/12
ip.access in the U.K. already has shipped a LTE-only version of its new E-100 dual-mode, small-cell access point to five customers for lab and field trials. The device reportedly provides simultaneous 4G and 3G mobile-phone signals with data speeds to 150 Mbps and 42 Mbps, respectively and will also be able to support Wi-Fi as an […]
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08/14/2012
Deals Of The Day 08/14/12
TELUS filed with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to oppose Bell’s potential acquisition of Astral Media, specifically mentioning the impact that “an unprecedented concentration of market power in the broadcasting sector would have on Canadian consumers.” TELUS said it supports the views expressed last week by the Say No to Bell coalition, comprised […]