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Wi-Fi offload rising amid soaring data traffic
July 24, 2012 3:07 pm | by Maisie Ramsay, Wireless Week | News | CommentsHow important is Wi-Fi offload to solving the capacity crunch? Extremely important, if new numbers from iGR are any indication.
Comcast, Time Warner Cable add wireless markets
July 23, 2012 2:51 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsThe two MSOs continue their ongoing rollouts of their bundles with Verizon Wireless.
BendBroadband adopts Evolution’s DTAs
July 23, 2012 2:49 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsThe Evolution DTAs are “universal” inasmuch as they work on both Motorola and Cisco systems.
GLDS debuts TV Everywhere authorization
July 23, 2012 2:48 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsThe system links to the company’s Web-based self-care portal, so subscribers can manage all of their services with a single account.
NCTC, ACA announce board elections
July 23, 2012 2:46 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsWOW’s Abdoulah to chair ACA board; NCTC elects five board directors.
Hood Canal adopts RGB infrastructure
July 23, 2012 2:44 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsThe service provider is initially using the set-up to reclaim analog bandwidth and introduce more high-definition channels.
TWC pumps $850,000 into new state-of-the-art hub in S.C.
July 23, 2012 1:58 pm | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsTime Warner Cable engineers took an innovative approach to a new hub in Summerville, S.C., by grouping services together into pods.
Buckeye CableSystem tunes up TV Everywhere with Azuki
July 23, 2012 1:57 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsThe Azuki Media Platform includes adaptive streaming, entitlement and digital rights management (DRM).
Plans to share federal spectrum met with skepticism
July 23, 2012 1:55 pm | by Maisie Ramsay, Wireless Week | News | CommentsA plan to make the federal government share its spectrum with the wireless industry is being met with skepticism by an FCC commissioner and the wireless industry.
Survey: 50% of operators to deploy caching, CDNs by 2014
July 23, 2012 1:52 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsService providers rated Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent and Juniper as the top service provider edge router and/or carrier Ethernet switch vendors.
Marvell, Wilocity partner on tri-band Wi-Fi
July 23, 2012 1:50 pm | by Andrew Berg, Wireless Week | News | CommentsMarvell and Wilocity announced a new partnership to bring tri-band Wi-Fi solutions enabled with 802.11ad to market.
Lake County's broadband effort in Minn. rankles private co.
July 23, 2012 1:48 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsThe project can't succeed without taking the majority of Mediacom's customers.
DirecTV customers: Sponge Bob is back
July 20, 2012 1:21 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsViacom and the satellite TV service provider have settled a dispute that had cut off access to 17 Viacom channels for DirecTV subscribers.
Hearst TV service continuing in New England
July 20, 2012 1:19 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsNew England viewers of Hearst television stations will continue to see their programs after the media company announced it has reached a retransmission consent agreement with Time Warner Cable.
Dish’s Q2 subscriber loss smaller than expected
July 20, 2012 1:17 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsDish Network lost 10,000 net subscribers in the quarter, which was smaller than analysts predicted in a typically weak quarter for pay-TV operators.
