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U-verse drives AT&T’s Q2 wireline operations
July 24, 2012 3:17 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsThe company continues to bleed DSL customers, and some of those are lost completely.
Cisco plans 1,300 layoffs in new cost-cutting round
July 24, 2012 3:15 pm | by Maisie Ramsay, Wireless Week | News | CommentsCisco is cutting more employees from its payroll as part of a restructuring effort aimed at refocusing the company on its core strengths.
Frontier deals for satellite broadband
July 24, 2012 3:14 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsThe company cuts a deal with Hughes Network Systems to provide its rural customers with service that might start to be offered no earlier than the end of this year.
NCTC names OpenVault approved vendor for broadband usage analytics
July 24, 2012 3:12 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsThe National Cable Television Cooperative has named OpenVault as an approved vendor for broadband usage data analytics and policy management
Time Warner Cable’s Gillman joins SeaWell Networks’ board
July 24, 2012 3:10 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsAdvanced advertising vendor SeaWell Networks announced that Time Warner Cable executive Joan Gillman has joined its board of directors as an independent member.
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.


