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02/26/2009
Small Op Aims to Shut Off Analog
Coaxial Cable Television Corp. is planning an April 1 (no joke) shut-off of analog video as the final part of converting to all-digital delivery. The northwest Pennsylvania-based operator has worked with Transparent Video Systems on this project for two years, buying TVS multiplexers and other headend equipment, along with 10,000 digital boxes for its 4,000 […]
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02/24/2009
Looking Beyond DOCSIS 3.0
DOCSIS 3.0 won’t be nirvana for the cable industry, according to the opening keynote speaker today at a Light Reading DOCSIS 3.0 conference in Denver. "We’re still limited in the upstream channel," said Rouzbeh Yassini, CEO of YAS Broadband Ventures. "Good job, but no cigar yet. Even 35 Mbps upstream is still not enough." Yassini […]
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02/24/2009
NCTC Ops Switch, Pull and Reclaim
Three small cable operators offered status reports on their respective spectrum management plans at the National Cable Television Cooperative’s annual Winter Educational Conference in Charlotte, NC, yesterday (Feb. 23.) The three executives addressed three separate technologies. Massillon Cable President Bob Gessner discussed analog reclamation; Troy Cablevision Chief Engineer Ken Jordan, fiber-to-the-home (FTTH); and Buckeye Cablevision […]
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02/23/2009
EBIF Testing Gains Momentum
The Comcast Media Center has partnered with three additional cable companies to beta-test interactive TV applications on its HITS Axis platform. BendBroadband, Sunflower Broadband and Metrocast Communications will join Buckeye CableSystem as beta sites to test enhanced binary interchange format (EBIF) applications. Hopes are pinned on EBIF as a way to offer two-way TV applications […]
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02/19/2009
The Buzz in Barcelona: LTE
Many of the press releases spewing out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, this week mentioned Long Term Evolution (LTE). Then Verizon’s EVP and CTO Dick Lynch made the announcement that the wireless company plans to build America’s first LTE network. Lynch said during his keynote speech that Verizon Wireless had selected Ericsson […]
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02/17/2009
Customer Loyalty Shifts from Provider to Device
Consumers are becoming more loyal to their telecommunications devices than to their network service providers, according to a 2009 Telecommunications Industry Issues Index released today. The report was commissioned by Jajah, an IP telephony company, to evaluate how carriers view the IP communications market. It is compiled through interviews with C-Level executives at U.S. and […]