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06/27/2011
Picochip, InterDigital Demo Gateway at Femtocells World Summit
Picochip and InterDigital are collaborating on delivering advanced broadband traffic management solutions across cellular femtocells with embedded Wi-Fi access. During the Femtocells World Summit 2011 in London both companies successfully demonstrated how InterDigital’s converged gateway technology, integrated on Picochip’s 3G femtocell with Wi-Fi, delivers offloading solutions by managing data flows across multiple physical transports or […]
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06/27/2011
High-Speed Broadband Expansion Begins in Washington
Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet) has begun construction on an expansion of broadband that will bring nearly a thousand miles of high-speed broadband Internet service to unserved communities in Washington State. NoaNet is initiating construction on two federal American Reinvestment and Recovery Act grants totaling $140 million to bring high-speed Internet access to hundreds of […]
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06/27/2011
LightSquared Proposes Solution to GPS Interference
LightSquared has outlined a solution to the problem of interference with Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. This solution will permit LightSquared to proceed with its business plan. Early test results indicated that one of LightSquared’s 10MHz blocks of frequencies poses interference to many GPS receivers. This block happens to be the specific set of frequencies […]
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06/27/2011
High-Income Households Are Most Likely To Subscribe To Pay-TV
New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) finds that 87 percent of households nationwide subscribe to some form of multi-channel video service. The percentage of households that subscribe to a multi-channel video service is similar to last year, and up from 80 percent in 2004. Non-subscribers to multi-channel services tend to have lower household […]
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06/27/2011
Charter to Acquire Some US Cable Systems
Charter Communications has signed a definitive agreement to acquire cable television systems from US Cable of Coastal Texas serving, in aggregate, approximately 16,000 customers in Missouri, including the communities of Hannibal, Mexico and Moberly. Charter President, Operations, Steven Apodaca said, "Charter has a major presence in Missouri, serving customers in 25 counties, so these acquired […]
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06/27/2011
Technology Matters in Content-Distribution Disputes
Just one day after Viacom and Time Warner Cable (TWC) announced they were attempting to resolve their iPad app dispute outside of litigation, Viacom filed a lawsuit against Cablevision for its iPad app. The advent of "TV Everywhere" is causing some major strains between programmers and operators, with relationships a bit schizophrenic of late. Last […]