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10/05/2011
Delta Boosts In-Flight Wi-Fi to 800 Aircraft
Delta Air Lines launched new in-flight entertainment options, including Delta Connect, an in-flight portal for all customers using Wi-Fi on Delta aircraft; wireless movies and television on demand on Boeing 757-300 aircraft; and a more user-friendly design for Airbus A330 in-flight entertainment systems that include more content choices. "Whether through our mobile apps, Wi-Fi […]
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10/05/2011
Frontier Names Its MetroE Markets
Frontier Communications is expanding its Metro Ethernet (MetroE) service to more than 55 markets. The expansion addresses the increasingly bandwidth-heavy needs of Frontier’s mid-size and large business customers. Frontier MetroE offers business customers solutions that include next-generation Internet access and wide area networking. The following now have Frontier MetroE service: Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Bloomington, Carbondale, […]
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10/05/2011
Midcontinent Builds Connection to Former US Cable Franchises
Midcontinent Communications completed its acquisition of 113 Minnesota and Wisconsin franchises from US Cable. The area includes approximately 86,000 homes and approximately 33,000 customers. Ninety percent of the customers are served by a fiber network fed from a single cable headend, delivering cable TV, broadband and digital telephone services to residential and business customers. Construction […]
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10/05/2011
Xbox 360 Gets Foot In the Door At Cable Operations
Two cable providers – Comcast and Verizon FiOS – will integrate Microsoft’s Xbox 360 into their video services. In a posting on Comcast’s corporate blog today, Tony Werner, executive vice president/CTO at Comcast, wrote, "We’re excited to be working with Microsoft to bring our Xfinity On Demand service to the Xbox 360 and continue delivering […]
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10/05/2011
Raging Battle Continues Between ‘ABC Plan’ Friends, Foes
A Washington, D.C.-based think tank believes U.S. customers could pay approximately $14 less per year in communications access charges if the American Broadband Connectivity Plan’s (the ABC Plan’s) proposed reductions are fully implemented as part of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) reforms. The ABC Plan proposes, among other things, to cut switched access rates to […]
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