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03/21/2012
Consumer M2M Services Could Boost Operator Revenues
As machine-to-machine (M2M) applications widen in an increasingly connected society, communications companies are looking to diversify their M2M offerings beyond what can easily become a commoditized connectivity. Consumer M2M applications – centered on such small/portable consumer-electronics devices as e-readers and digital connected photo-frames – are the closest to telcos’ core capabilities of providing digital lifestyle […]
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03/21/2012
XOR Media Will Continue SeaChange Ties
A group of financial investors, led by a U.S.-based venture firm, is buying SeaChange’s broadcast server and storage business for an undisclosed amount. The new, independent company will be named XOR Media, headed by Zheng Gao, president of SeaChange Storage and Servers, who was named CEO.? VantagePoint Capital Partners’ Terry Chen, whose portfolio companies have […]
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03/21/2012
Untangling Some Of The Confusion
By Ron Hranac, senior technology editor Do you know which channel plan is used by North American cable operators? Is it IS-6? The NCTA channel plan? How about the NCTA/EIA channel plan? Or is it simply the EIA channel plan? Perhaps it’s the EIA/CEA channel plan? The answer is none of these – well, not […]
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03/20/2012
On The Hill: FCC's McDowell Addresses 3 Hot-Button Issues
Speaking before the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government of the House Committee on Appropriations yesterday, Republican FCC Commissioner Robert M. McDowell laid out his agency’s plans for three different initiatives this year: spectrum policy, Universal Service Fund reform and the spectre of international governance over the Internet. The following are snippets of his […]
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03/20/2012
Unions Blast Verizon/SpectrumCo Deal
A joint press release from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) warns what will happen if Verizon Wireless eventually is permitted to purchase spectrum from several cable operators under the blanket name SpectrumCo (click here for more information). “As the Senate Judiciary Committee antitrust subcommittee plans to […]
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03/20/2012
Annual TIA Predictions Focus On Wireless Growth
The annual Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Market Review & Forecast (MR&F), published by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), this year spends a lot of time on the impact of the growth of smartphones and tablets, cloud-related services and video streaming. The MR&F identifies 2013 as “pivotal” in the evolution of wireless communications –predicting that, […]