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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.
Google's Q2 earnings rise as clicks on ads soar
July 20, 2012 1:15 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsGoogle is getting even better at showing online ads to the right people at the right time. That enabled the Internet search leader to hit analysts' earnings target for the second quarter.


