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| 02.09.2012 |
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From The FCC: Expanding Broadband, Protecting Voice Service In Rural America
Improving communications in rural America has always been a focus for the FCC, and the primary vehicle to achieve that goal has been the Universal Service Fund. Despite great strides in this arena, one area where rural America still lagged the rest of the...
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| 02.08.2012 |
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In 2012, Network Testing Rules
According to a wide-ranging spate of predictions for the coming year from IP test solutions provider Ixia, network operators will need to compete and live up to their reliability commitments, maintaining customers by helping to ensure all types of customer...
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| 02.07.2012 |
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Satellite Industry Set For 10-Year Growth Spurt
Prospects for the satellite industry remain favorable during the decade in a variety of areas, including continued growth for commercial markets, and its value is on the rise. According to satellite consulting/analyst firm Euroconsult, bandwidth used for...
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| 02.06.2012 |
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Global Attention To Broadband Speeds Reaps Benefits
The results of 52 million end-user speed tests have shown Canada is a global contender in broadband Internet performance, ranking often in the top 10 international countries, notes a new report from Lemay-Yates Associates. LYA benchmarked six key broadband...
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| 02.02.2012 |
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Virtual MSOs: In The Near Future?
Disruption in the cable space due to disintermediation and fragmentation is undeniably real. You only have to look at Time Warner Cable’s plan to bring live, in-home, IP video to a raft of new devices this year, including PCs and gaming consoles, as...
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| 02.01.2012 |
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Does Unlicensed Spectrum Have a Future?
Will Congress set aside additional wireless spectrum for unlicensed use? Not if the House of Representatives has its way. House legislation authorizing wireless spectrum auctions has been rolled into the payroll tax extension measure currently being debated...
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| 01.31.2012 |
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Survey Sez: Networks Control Mobile Video Quality
According to a recent survey of mobile phone users, 74 percent of respondents hold operators “most responsible” if video stalls, buffers or takes too long to start when streaming over their mobile networks. The survey, conducted for Mobixell...
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| 01.30.2012 |
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Ethernet Fabrics: Coming To A Data Center Near You
Broadband data centers are poised for change. Pressures to reduce costs, to improve availability, to increase scalability and to simplify configuration make a compelling case for moving to Ethernet fabrics in the data center. Unlike traditional Ethernet...
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| 01.27.2012 |
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Systems Vendors Consider Next-Gen Interconnects
At the recent Optical Internetworking Forum workshop in Santa Clara, Calif., a variety of optical systems vendors discussed the challenges and opportunities in building next generation optical interconnects. Developing common standards for connecting boxes...
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| 01.25.2012 |
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LTE Active Antenna Field Trial Yields Successful Results
The recent 700 MHz LTE active antenna system field trial is certainly a memorable moment for closing out 2011. This was a successful opportunity for CommScope to demonstrate the features of active antennas in a true multi-site field trial and provide a...
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| 01.24.2012 |
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Spectrum Sudoku: Feds Have Verizon's, AT&T's Numbers
With prospects alive this year for congressional approval of incentive auctions, which would enable the U.S. government to compensate TV broadcasters for returned airwaves repurposed for mobile broadband, the debate has shifted to how much authority the...
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| 01.23.2012 |
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Assigning More Olympic Spectrum: A Herculean Task
Just as the athletes have been in training for their events, the U.K. is doing everything it can to prepare for the toll that will be taken on its spectrum during the London 2012 Olympic Summer Games. Some 26,000 members of the world’s media will base...
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| 01.20.2012 |
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Why Rural Broadband Adoption Matters
High-speed, online access is no longer a luxury; it is a necessity. And for those who live
in rural areas, it can make a significant difference with respect to educational and employment opportunities. Health care can be provided in the most...
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| 01.18.2012 |
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Stimulus Success Story: ‘Middle Mile’ Broadband In Alaska
While many recipients of stimulus cash distributed last year have either given it back or continue to build out their broadband projects, last week, Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (R) hosted the first live terrestrial videoconference between Juneau and Bethel's...
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| 01.17.2012 |
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Denial Time Is Over: Most Video Will Be Online
Surprise, surprise: People aren’t watching as much live TV as they used to. During a CES keynote address last week, Robert Kyncl, vice president/Global Content Partnerships at YouTube, said he believes it’s likely 75 percent of all channels (TV...
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| 01.12.2012 |
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Home-Dec Mag, Glidden Paint A Whole New Mobile Ad Campaign
House Beautiful magazine is a leading authority on American home design and decoration, reaching more than seven million readers every month. Predominantly consumed on paper, the Hearst publication now is looking to go a little more broad brush when it comes...
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| 01.12.2012 |
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Election-Year Opportunities For Wireless M&As?
Given the mixed outlook for scarce spectrum in the face of growing consumer/enterprise wireless-data demand accompanying increased adoption of smartphones, tablets, e-readers and other spectrum-dependent/Web-connected devices, the Obama administration could...
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| 01.11.2012 |
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It’s Crunch Time For LightSquared
LightSquared, the wholesale wireless startup backed by Phil Falcone's Harbinger Capital Partners, finds itself at a critical crossroads (click here for more information). Regulatory, financial and potentially legal headwinds facing LightSquared early in the...
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| 01.10.2012 |
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DTH Markets In 2012: The Year Of Convergence?
As Northern Sky Research (NSR) stated in its Global Direct-to-Home Markets, 4th Edition report, over-the-top (OTT) services are coming to direct-to-home (DTH) markets around the world. This year, the Super Bowl (the largest TV event in the United States) will...
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| 01.06.2012 |
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Apple, Google Learn Content Still Is King
Rumors swirling around Apple’s perennial lack of presence the annual Consumer Electronics Show, about to take place in Las Vegas, and around an Apple press conference now set for late January all are indicating AppleTV is going to, at best, limp along...
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