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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 […]
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02/12/2009
More HSD: Cox Explains Network Trial
Cox Communications’ high speed data network congestion trial began this week in Kansas and Arkansas. But the trial itself has been on trial since being announced three weeks ago. The battle lines formed quickly. In a January 28 post on DSL Reports, Karl Bode at DSL Reports leaned on comments from the FreePress, a group […]
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02/12/2009
High-Speed Data Dump
Here’s an HD/HSD metric, a top-12 DOCSIS 3.0 list from Comcast, and some numbers from ARRIS. First, back to Toronto at last week’s SCTE Canada Summit. (For previous reports, click here.) During the opening session, moderator Leslie Ellis asked the panelists about their heaviest high-speed data users. (Whether these were their best or worst subscribers […]