Business

Mediacom cuts install window to half-hour

March 19, 2012 2:49 pm | by Brian Santo | News | Comments

Survey after survey over decades have made it crystal clear that customers hate being kept waiting and hate having to take off entire days of work to accommodate an installer or repair technician.

Witnesses set for Senate hearing on Verizon, cable AWS sale

March 19, 2012 2:48 pm | by Maisie Ramsay, Wireless Week | News | Comments

Executives from Verizon and Comcast will square off against the Rural Cellular Association and Free Press at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Verizon Wireless' $3.9 billion acquisition of nationwide AWS spectrum from four cable operators.

Comcast Business Services’ Metro Ethernet passes test with school district

March 19, 2012 2:44 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | Comments

Comcast Business Services is providing its Metro Ethernet services to the Farmington, Conn., Public School District in order to help the district’s 4,000 students meet a statewide online test-taking initiative ahead of schedule.

Cox Business, IO Data Center connect on disaster recovery

March 19, 2012 2:41 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | Comments

Cox Business has teamed up with IO Data Center to provide a robust data recovery solution for the International Genomics Consortium in Phoenix.

Nielsen launches cross-platform ad measurement tool with GroupM

March 19, 2012 2:39 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | Comments

Advertisers and ad agencies have long yearned for a system that standardizes ratings across both TV and Internet ads, and Nielsen has launched its cross-platform advertising measurement service with GroupM.

NetZero launches WiMAX mobile broadband product in 80 cities

March 19, 2012 2:37 pm | by Andrew Berg, Wireless Week | News | Comments

NetZero Wireless, a subsidiary of United Online, announced the launch of NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband in more than 80 cities.

LightSquared: 'There's too much at stake to walk away'

March 19, 2012 2:35 pm | by Maisie Ramsay, Wireless Week | News | Comments

The FCC's decision to stop it from launching its wireless network violated its constitutional rights, it said, vowing to find a way to move forward.

Study: U.S. business fiber penetration increases to 32%

March 19, 2012 2:33 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | Comments

The penetration of fiber-optic services to businesses across the nation continued to increase last year.

Application performance management for enterprise WANs

March 16, 2012 5:06 pm | by Alcatel-Lucent | White Papers | Comments

Exponential-e is the first U.K. provider to offer its business customers an application performance management capability delivered from within its own network. This technical paper details the benefits available to Exponential-e's customers, as well as how the capability is deployed.

Comcast ready to jolt electronics industry on energy awareness

March 16, 2012 3:28 pm | by Special to CED | News | Comments

Cognizant of its new size and expanded influence, Comcast intends to push for better management of energy consumption in both network infrastructure and in the home.

It's over: Sprint ends LightSquared LTE deal

March 16, 2012 3:25 pm | by Maisie Ramsay, Wireless Week | News | Comments

Sprint walked away from a multi-billion-dollar deal to host LightSquared's spectrum on its network and has returned $65 million in prepayments to the foundering company, whose wireless plans are on the rocks because of problems with GPS interference.

Avaya acquires Radvision for $230M

March 16, 2012 3:20 pm | by Andrew Berg, Wireless Week | News | Comments

Avaya announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Radvision, a provider of videoconferencing and telepresence technologies over IP and wireless networks, for $230 million.