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07/20/2012
Deals Of the Day 07/20/12
In a boost for TV Everywhere, the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) says it’s successfully enabled more than 80 member companies with its Watch TV Everywhere (WTVE) authentication solution developed collaboratively with several key NCTC members (including Massillon). The group says most of the major programmers offering TVE content have been integrated onto the platform, […]
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07/20/2012
FCC Band Plan Forum (Part 2): Duplex Gaps, Asymmetric Bands, Global Harmonization
At a forum earlier this week in Washington, D.C., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gathered experts from mobile device manufacturers, wireless carriers and industry organizations to discuss different options regarding band-plan designs for upcoming auctions of wireless spectrum. While the options vary, it seems likely that spectrum will be made available in smaller blocks than […]
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07/19/2012
Survey Sez 07/19/12
Wireless infrastructure equipment revenues hit a 8.5-year low in 1Q12 (only $11.4 billion), and the second quarter isn’t looking much better, notes ABI Research. Ericsson’s 2Q results reported a 9-percent increase from the first quarter; and preliminary results this week from Alcatel-Lucent and ZTE also predict slight increases in revenues, but they fall short of […]
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07/19/2012
New Stuff 07/19/12
Look out, Flo; Sprint is offering integrated, end-to-end usage-based insurance (UBI) services designed specifically for the auto-insurance industry. The company claims to be the first wireless carrier to offer a low-cost turnkey trial program that would let insurance carriers offer their customers such programs as personalized discounts based on their driving habits. Here’s how it […]
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07/19/2012
Inside The Beltway 07/19/12
ATIS kicked off an initiative aimed at identifying technologies that could provide a backup to the Global Positioning System (GPS) for time-and-frequency transport and delivery in an effort to “free North American communications networks from their critical dependence on GPS-derived timing.” ATIS’ Copper/Optical Access, Synchronization, and Transport Committee (COAST) will consider such alternatives as fiber-based […]
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07/19/2012
To Market, To Market 07/19/12
Starting today, Verizon Wireless cuts over 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) service in 33 new U.S. markets and it plans to cover more than 400 by year’s end…Chicago-based Clearstream has a new platform it says provides “more efficiently priced” access to “millions” of video streams direct from publishers, major ad exchanges, video ad exchanges, YouTube, […]