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07/22/2009
Verizon, AT&T Discount EBIF, Promote Other Apps
TV programmers and advertisers won’t create interactive applications targeted at pay TV subscribers until tens of millions of advanced set-tops are deployed, executives at an IPTV World Forum conference said Wednesday. Content producers will begin to produce more interactive programming for U.S. subscribers when a critical mass of 20 million set-tops capable of running […]
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07/22/2009
Clearwire Launches 4G in Vegas
Yesterday Clearwire Communications rolled out its Clear WiMAX offering in Las Vegas to serve an area with 1.7 million residents across 638 square miles. This deployment follows Baltimore, MD; Portland, OR; and Atlanta. Clear WiMAX is Clearwire’s 4G mobile Internet offering designed to give Internet access anywhere in the coverage area, rather than having to […]
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07/21/2009
Shaw Likes Mountain’s Prospects
Without naming a purchase price, Shaw Communications President Peter Bissonnette confirmed that the planned acquisition of Ontario-based Mountain Cablevision was pricey. “There was a premium,” Bissonnette said. Assuming the $220 million (or more) in Canadian currency suggested by Greg O’Brien’s Web site cart.ca is accurate, one figures the deal translates at a minimum into U.S. […]
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07/15/2009
Long(er) Live QAM!
How much life is left in QAM technology? Some 20 months ago, at Paul Kagan’s “QAM Before the Storm” event that preceded the SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies (ET) in Los Angeles, one proponent of universal edge QAM devices noted “wistfully” (to borrow the bon mot used by Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Alan Breznick) that […]
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07/13/2009
News Hole
First it was Verizon filing a program access complaint against Cablevision over access to MSG HD . Now it's the CT atty genl asking the FCC to investigate agreements giving Cablevision the exclusive rights
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07/09/2009
Moto Divests FTTN, Follow-up
Yesterday Motorola announced it was divesting its fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) product family. The FTTN technology it has sold to Communications Test Design (CTDI) was part of the Multi-Service Access Platform (MSAP) that Motorola had partly acquired through its purchase in 2000 of cable equipment manufacturer General Instrument. It took additional investment for Motorola to gain control […]