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11/19/2009
Suddenlink Builds on Strengths
St. Louis-based Suddenlink Communications, with 1.2 million basic video subscribers, has had a strong year. It also posted strong third quarter results today, with overall revenue rising 7 percent. The MSO reported a net loss of $7.7 million, half as much as in the prior year period. Last month, CT reviewed network and service developments at […]
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11/04/2009
Earnings up at Cablevision and Comcast
Cablevision reported a third-quarter tripling of profit on Tuesday, while Comcast reported a 22 percent increase in profit in an earnings report today. Driven by a surprising boost in advertising revenue and subscriber additions to high-speed data (+19,000) and telephony (+34,000) subscribers, Cablevision posted a quarterly profit of $98.9 million, three times its earnings in […]
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11/01/2009
Telephony Calls Opportunities: Reinventing Voice
Discussions of leading-edge voice technology might include a myriad of topics from session initiation protocol (SIP) to WiMAX vs. LTE, to sophisticated telepresence systems. In October, Comcast announced a new product in the telephony space: cordless phones. Wait, isn’t that more 1980s than 2009? Apparently, it’s a bit of the glass half-empty as opposed to […]
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11/01/2009
Faster Down, Faster Up: Can’t Have One Without the Other
The return path, long the poor cousin to downstream in terms of throughput and spectrum allocation, is beginning to demand its due. Consumer behavior is driving the attention, with the explosion in popularity of video-rich, two-way applications now impacting Internet usage patterns. Service providers are responding. Cablevision grabbed headlines in May by offering up to […]
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11/01/2009
System of the Year: Comcast Oregon/SW Washington
It’s hard to discount the significance of Project Cavalry, Comcast’s two-year, $1 billion analog reclamation project that began in November 2008. The massive undertaking is a bona fide game changer. In a May 5, 2009 note, Bernstein Research Senior Analyst Craig Moffett called it "the most important capacity expansion project in Cable’s history." It is […]
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11/01/2009
Broadband: What is a Micro-Reflection?
The study of transmission lines often begins with the assumption that a signal source, a lossless transmission line, and load have equal impedances. Under that scenario, all of an incident wave’s power transmitted from the source is absorbed by the load. In the real world, the impedances of the source, transmission line, and load are […]