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04/02/2012
NEW! CT Webcast Addresses Building Customer-Experience-Driven Cable Cash
Cable operators today face a dual challenge: finding ways to maximize revenue while driving costs out of operations. On Thursday, April 26, Communications Technology will present a Webcast focusing on ways cable operators can meet and beat these challenges. “Maximizing Profitability Through Optimum Customer Experience & Operational Excellence,” scheduled from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. […]
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04/02/2012
Mobile Backhaul: Keeping The Mobile Industry Awake At Night
In the last few years, I have had the pleasure of interviewing many network executives from many mobile operators, both large and small. I always end my interviews with the same question: “What keeps you awake at night?” The answer for the last few years has invariably been the same: Backhaul. Another popular answer is […]
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03/30/2012
State Agencies, Staff Get One-Stop Wireless Shopping
The Western States Contracting Alliance (WSCA), a state purchasing cooperative association, gave Md.-based TESSCO a five-year contract to provide mobile-device accessories to state agencies nationwide. All 50 states, their agencies and their employees are eligible to participate. This contract allows WSCA members to reduce spend by taking advantage of volume pricing, thus cutting administrative costs […]
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03/30/2012
Stimulus Fund Update
TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS) is 75-percent finished with its pre-bid meetings during which the carrier has outlined its stimulus-funded projects that will expand broadband Internet access to more than 27,000 rural customers across the country. Since mid-January, TDS has hosted pre-bid meetings for 30 of its 44 projects. This month, TDS hosted meetings in Alabama, […]
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03/30/2012
LTE Small Cells Top Macro Base Stations By 2014
Changing wireless network paradigms are driving a shift in the architecture of base stations from traditional macrocells to distributed base stations and toward the growing use of small cell base stations (for more information, click here). The primary drivers for this transition, according to ABI Research, are the increasing data traffic demand and the opex/capex […]
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03/30/2012
FCC Takes Another Step Closer To White Spaces
The good news is, the Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) at the Federal Communications Commission vetted an application submitted by Telcordia Technologies Inc. to operate its “TV bands database system” commercially. The bad news is that Telcordia has to wait until the commission completes and activates its system for approving registrations to protect wireless […]