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Comcast hires former Cisco exec as SVP of finance and strategic planning
February 3, 2012 1:42 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsInder Singh is responsible for Comcast Cable's forecasting, strategy, business trends, and long-range plan preparation.
ATX Networks buys Arcos Technologies
February 3, 2012 1:39 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsThe purchase price could total over $26 million; just less than half that amount is to be paid upfront, with much of the balance to be paid as royalties contingent on future sales.
MetroPCS Revives $40 LTE Plan
February 3, 2012 1:37 pm | by Maisie Ramsay | News | CommentsThe company brings back a popular plan that was suspended when the company stopped selling a specific handset.
Towns push back as Georgia tries to crush municipal broadband
February 3, 2012 1:36 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsThe state government is set to consider legislation that backers claim will make public broadband networks play by the same rules as private service providers.
Japanese Entrepreneurs Aim for Silicon Valley
February 3, 2012 1:34 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsFor an emerging generation of Japanese innovators, the dream isn't a job for life at a big company. They have new ambitions, and they're determined to go places.
Evolution on evolution
February 3, 2012 12:49 pm | by Brian Santo | Blogs | CommentsThe digital terminal adapter is one-way device, a limitation that both justifies its existence and bars it from being a long-term solution. From its introduction, the DTA has been considered a dead end – a very, very useful device – but a dead end. Evolution Digital thinks maybe not.
Comcast, Verizon's joint marketing effort docks in Bay Area
February 2, 2012 2:25 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsAmid increasing congressional scrutiny over their spectrum and reselling deal, Comcast and Verizon Wireless are now cross-promoting each other's products in San Francisco.
Time Warner Cable's bid to buy Insight passes FCC muster
February 2, 2012 2:23 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsThe Federal Communications Commission issued a memorandum order and opinion that gave its stamp of approval for Time Warner Cable to wrap up its purchase of Insight Communications.
Comcast extends contract with Amdocs
February 2, 2012 2:22 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsAmdocs said it is talking to Comcast about adopting additional products in its customer experience portfolio.
Kanouff leaves SeaChange
February 2, 2012 2:20 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsThe company said she will not be replaced and that the title of president will be eliminated as part of ongoing cost reduction measures.
Comcast's Coblitz to keynote SCTE's SEMI Forum
February 2, 2012 2:19 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsThe Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers has lined up a heavy-hitter for the keynote address at its upcoming SEMI Forum with Comcast's Mark Coblitz.
U.S. Cellular plans March LTE launch
February 2, 2012 2:17 pm | by Maisie Ramsay, Wireless Week | News | CommentsU.S. Cellular will light up its LTE network in six states, covering about a quarter of its customers in Iowa, Wisconsin, Maine, North Carolina, Texas and Oklahoma.
U.S. digital textbook proposal puts a premium on broadband
February 2, 2012 2:16 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsThe Department of Education and the FCC propose to phase out physical textbooks for electronic versions that can be easily revised and updated.
Suddenlink completes fiber network in Ark.
February 1, 2012 2:19 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsSuddenlink Communications has put the finishing touches on a new 162-mile fiber-optic network that was designed to better serve its customers in Arkansas.
FCC OKs Lifeline reforms
February 1, 2012 2:17 pm | by Maisie Ramsay, Wireless Week | News | CommentsThe FCC passed broad reforms of its Lifeline program at its open meeting, paving the way to overhaul a program that provides subsidized telephone service to low-income families.
