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03/14/2012
Global LTE Progress Report
At the end of 4Q11, the worldwide Long Term Evolution (LTE) subscriber base nearly doubled in size compared with the previous quarter to reach 12.02 million subscribers worldwide, showing a rapid adoption of LTE at the expense of WiMAX. According to research firm Maravedis, this quarter-over-quarter subscriber increase for LTE and WiMAX was 92 percent […]
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03/14/2012
Platform Upgrade Targets IPTV Providers
San Diego-based Imagine Communications, a provider of advanced digital video solutions and a member of the newly formed DASH Promoters Group, cut over a system upgrade to its ICE Video Platform that gives system operators a single unified appliance for processing HD and SD IPTV streams as well as Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) streams for […]
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03/14/2012
Usage-Based Billing Is Acceptable, If The Price Is Right
After learning from an unsuccessful rollout of usage-based pricing a few years back, Time Warner Cable last month announced it would make another foray into broadband caps. Introducing a discount plan that rewards a 5 GB cap with $5 in monthly savings, the operator has once again stirred up conversation regarding the future of unlimited […]
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03/13/2012
Hyatt Upgrades In-Room iTV Services
Hospitality interactive-TV provider Roomlinx Inc. signed a master service agreement with an affiliate of Hyatt Hotels Corporation that will allow it to offer such integrated ?hotel technologies as in-room entertainment, high-speed Internet, video on demand and HDTV programming for participating Hyatt hotels and resorts in North America and the Caribbean. The roll out will begin […]
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03/13/2012
Get Ready To Click To Contribute
Well, it is an election year, after all. Strategy & Technology (S&T), which deals in technologies for interactive-TV deployment, teamed with interactive-TV-fulfillment platform provider icueTV to integrate the S&T TSBroadcaster carousel streamer and the icueTV fulfillment platform that features the "Click to Text" political campaign donation application. The two will demonstrate the finished integration […]
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03/13/2012
With Advent Of MPEG-4, MPEGIF Goes OIPF
Coming soon: The MPEG Industry Forum (MPEGIF) will merge with the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF), now that its work to promote MPEG-4 Part 10 (aka H.264) as the dominant codec in next-generation video technology and the successor to MPEG-2 is done. ? Such a merger is not unknown. In 2011, the Broadcast Mobile Convergence Forum […]