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06/01/2004
Action at the Edge
Competition for edge-QAM devices is growing, as operators continue to scale up video-on-demand streams. The reason is pretty straightforward.
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02/16/2004
Fighting Telcos With Killer Speed
Paul Bruno is a longtime Charter cable modem customer. But after seeing ads for the SBC Yahoo-branded DSL service last fall, the New Fairfield, Conn., computer programmer decided to go for the 30-day trial offer and compare the two services to see which he liked better. “I went to some lengths to bring in DSL,” […]
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09/22/2003
ALPHABET SOUP
BY SHIRLEY BRADY The final top 20 cable market now has HDTV service with last week’s launch in Comcast’s Denver/Boulder system. HDTV programming from HBO, Showtime, ESPN HD, INHD, INHD2 plus local NBC, PBS and wide-screen Fox signals is now available to more than 830,000 households in the area; the market is waiving the additional […]
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07/21/2003
K.C. and Mr. ME at the Ads
The assignment was simple enough. Find someone who could critique CTAM’s Mark Award winners and the industry’s efforts to sell itself. I knew exactly who to go to. I called the guy, and he was game. But when I got to his office a few days later, he was reticent. Several factors were preventing him […]
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05/01/2003
How to Plan and Manage a Rollout
As services like HDTV clamor for ever-scarcer bandwidth, much attention is being directed toward switched broadcast services.