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06/26/2012
Survey Sez
London-based Informa Telecoms & Media says small cells will outnumber all macrocells globally during the fourth quarter and that femtocells (aka residential small cells) alone will outnumber all macrocells shortly afterwards in 1Q13. Korea’s SK Telecom successfully started rolling out the world’s first LTE small-cell deployment, while AT&T, Sprint and China Mobile have committed to […]
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06/26/2012
AIR.U Focuses On TV White Spaces For Underserved Areas
A consortium of higher-education associations, public interest groups and high-tech companies today formed a partnership named AIR.U (Advanced Internet Regions) to deploy Super Wi-Fi networks to upgrade the broadband available to underserved campuses and their surrounding communities. By using unlicensed access to unused television channels (TV “white spaces”), universities and neighboring communities will be able […]
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06/25/2012
Inside The Beltway
On Wednesday, the Communications and Technology Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hear testimony regarding “The Future of Video.” Witnesses include Michael Powell (NCTA), Charlie Ergen (DISH), David Hyman (Netflix), Robert Johnson (Sky Angel), Jim Funk (Roku) and David Barrett (Hearst).
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06/25/2012
Money Matters
Verizon Investments LLC, a subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc., and Mesirow Financial Private Equity Inc. have led a $9.5 million investment in Carrier Ethernet developer CENX Inc. Current CENX investors DCM, Highland Capital Partners, and Wasatch also participated in the investment, which will be used to increase CENX’s system, engineering and support resources.
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06/25/2012
People Watch
NCTC hired former Starz director/strategic financing Shannon Sommers to serve in the newly created role of senior director/Programming Analysis. Sommers sports both law and CPA credentials. While still at Starz, she served as part of the team that crafted the renewal of that programmer’s agreement with NCTC…Digital presence management firm Limelight Networks hired Kirby Wadsworth […]
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06/25/2012
Survey Sez
Infonetics Research is on a roll, saying North America is the global home-networking leader, thanks to MoCA, with a 37-percent marketshare of all home-networked devices last year. Global sales of home networking devices grew 20 percent in 2011 from 2010, to $7.98 billion, and some $43 billion will be spent on home networking devices from […]