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12/22/2010
CLEC TelePacific Buys Covad Wireless
California CLEC TelePacific Communications, which serves the small and medium-sized business (SMB) segment in California and Nevada, is buying MegaPath Inc.’s NextWeb Inc. subsidiary dba Covad Wireless, a broadband, fixed-wireless carrier operating in TelePacifica area. Under terms of the agreement, TelePacific adds some 3,500 profitable broadband fixed wireless business customers in the two western states […]
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12/21/2010
Breaking News: Genachowski Wins Net Neutrality Fight, But Court Battle Looms
The Federal Communications Commission today finally voted in favor of Internet access regulation, with the vote split between party lines. This “network neutrality” ruling, which has been championed for a year by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, is the federal government’s first move to regulate broadband access. Earlier this month, the chairman outlined what he called […]
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12/21/2010
Report Explains Cognitive Radio’s Place In Future Buildouts
Earlier today, the Washington, D.C.-based Wireless Innovation Forum approved the report Quantifying the Benefits of Cognitive Radio that presents the results of an extensive survey performed by the group’s Cognitive Radio Work Group (CRWG) on open and public Cognitive Radio (CR) literature. The intent of the report is to summarize the “hard numbers” required to […]
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12/21/2010
EC Okays News Corp. Purchase Of BSkyB
The European Commission (EC) gave the final nod to the proposed acquisition of British and Irish pay-TV operator BSkyB by U.S.-based News Corporation, ruling the deal would not chill competition in the European Economic Area. However, the decision does not stand in the way of the U.K. continuing to look into whether the proposed transaction […]
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12/21/2010
1 Million Apple TVs Sold By End Of This Week
Sales of its new Apple TV device will top 1 million units later this week, Apple says, with a price point of $99. According to the house that Jobs built, iTunes users now are renting and purchasing more than 400,000 TV episodes and more than 150,000 movies per day. And with the addition of the […]
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12/21/2010
Wireless Providers Set To Cash In On Smart Grids
Colo.-based Pike Research forecasts that, while private networks will continue to represent the majority of the smart-grid communications market, the revenue opportunity for service providers could rise from $2.2 billion in 2009 to $4.9 billion by 2016, with much of this growth benefiting wireless operators, which could see a six-fold increase in smart-grid revenues during […]