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08/09/2010
FCC Fronts Loosening Wireless Backhaul Microwave Regs
Taking its cue from its own National Broadband Plan, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing to remove regulatory barriers to the use of microwave spectrum for wireless backhaul. “By enabling more flexible, cost-effective and high-capacity microwave services, the commission can help increase deployment of fourth-generation (4G) mobile broadband networks across America,” an […]
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08/05/2010
LightSquared Defines Wholesale Model, Jumps Into 4G Space
LightSquared’s $7 billion decision to build a 4G network and then wholesale its spectrum and services to wireless carriers and other service providers (including cable) now is in play and could mean a quicker time-to-market business model for a variety of carriers. Using the accumulated spectrum acquired by the private investment firm Harbinger Capital Partners, […]
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08/05/2010
Revving Revs: Charter Grows Revenue, Narrows Loss, Loses Basics
Like Comcast , Charter shed subs in 2Q but still grew revenue. Revenue rose 4.8% to $1.77bln, with video rev up 0.4%, HSD rev increasing 9.5% and telephone rev up 11%. Even local ad revenue grew 16%. Over the
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08/01/2010
Home Networking: Hooking Cable Up With The ‘Connected House’
Home Networking The number of Web-enabled consumer-electronics (CE) devices continues to skyrocket.
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08/01/2010
Total Power And Channel Bonding: A Follow-Up Lesson
My April 2010 column provided an overview of the concept of total power and how it applies to the world of DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding. In particular, I looked at the impact on upstream per-channel maximum RF levels as the number of transmitted channels is increased beyond one. But what happens when a cable modem […]
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08/01/2010
Channeling Dire Straits: I Want My Home-Networked TV
As I’ve mentioned before, I have a strange and wonderful love affair with TV. In fact, there’s a TV hooked up to a digital cable box in nearly every room in my house (one of the things I really like about being on the road for business is TV in the bathroom in the better-equipped […]