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| 12.23.2011 |
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AT&T Receives Approval for Purchase of Qualcomm Spectrum
AT&T has received all required regulatory approvals for its acquisition of spectrum from Qualcomm. AT&T is purchasing 700 MHz spectrum licenses covering more than 300 million people for approximately $1.9 billion. "This spectrum will help AT&T...
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| 12.22.2011 |
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Akamai to Acquire Cloud-Based Tech Company for $268 Million
Akamai Technologies and Cotendo have signed a definitive agreement for Akamai to purchase Cotendo. The combination of the two companies' technologies and teams is expected to increase the pace of innovation in the areas of cloud and mobile optimization...
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| 12.21.2011 |
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TV Manufacturers Create Secure Memory Solution for Multiscreen Video
Panasonic, Samsung, SanDisk, Sony and Toshiba have reached an agreement in principle to collaborate on a new content protection technology for flash memory cards such as SD Cards and various storage devices. Under the "Next Generation Secure Memory...
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| 12.20.2011 |
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AT&T and T-Mobile USA: The Fat Lady Sang
The deal that began with a bang ended with a whimper yesterday evening as AT&T finally threw in the towel and gave up on its proposed takeover of T-Mobile USA. While T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom walks away with a $4 billion Christmas gift and a...
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| 12.19.2011 |
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SureWest Boosts Internet Speeds for Businesses in Kansas City
SureWest Communications is giving free speed upgrades for its commercial Internet customers in the Kansas City market who are served over its hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) network. The speed increases were made possible due to a DOCSIS 3.0 network upgrade...
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| 12.19.2011 |
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Time Warner Cable Offers HBO, Cinemax Online Programming
Time Warner Cable will launch HBO’s authenticated online video destinations, HBO GO and MAX GO. The companies will run a brief beta trial and then the service is expected to launch to all Time Warner Cable customers who subscribe to HBO in the next...
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| 12.19.2011 |
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Optimum Lightpath Reaches Building-Connection Milestone
Optimum Lightpath, a division of Cablevision Systems, says it has connected more than 5,000 buildings to its all-fiber network that now spans more than 4,700 fiber route miles. The new milestone is a result of ongoing network investment to increase...
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| 12.16.2011 |
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Following the Pack, Cox Sells AWS Spectrum to Verizon Wireless
When it comes to wireless strategy, Cox Communications always has marched to the beat of its own drummer. However, today, the MSO announced it was following the lead of Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks by selling its Advanced Wireless...
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| 12.13.2011 |
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Cable Networks Are Doing Just Fine, Thank You Very Much
A recent report from SNL Kagan was all sunshine and roses for cable networks. The "Economics of Basic Cable Networks, 2011 Edition" report illustrates that a big part of that good news derives from the networks’ ever-increasing revenues from...
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| 12.13.2011 |
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Tampa Bay Advertising Interconnect is Operator Agnostic
Bright House Media Strategies, the advertising division of Bright House Networks, has signed agreements with Verizon FiOS TV, Comcast Spotlight and Viamedia/Knology that will help make it more convenient for regional and national spot television advertisers...
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| 12.07.2011 |
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Cablevision Sues Verizon Over High-Speed Internet Ads
Cablevision Systems has filed a lawsuit in Federal Court seeking an end to a Verizon
 advertising campaign, which it claims makes intentionally false and misleading statements 
related to Cablevision's high-speed Internet service. Cablevision issued the...
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| 12.05.2011 |
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Canoe Finds That RFIs Improve Brand Awareness
A white paper released by Canoe Ventures, “Understanding the Brand Efficacy of RFI,” features the aggregate results from a series of brand-research studies accompanying in-market Request for Information (RFI) ITV campaigns that Canoe has enabled...
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| 12.02.2011 |
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Cable Troika Aligns With Verizon Wireless For Spectrum, Sales
In a stunning announcement, Clearwire investors Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks said they will sell 122 Advanced Wireless Service (AWS) spectrum licenses covering 529 million POPs for $3.6 billion to Verizon Wireless. The news comes just...
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| 12.02.2011 |
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CenturyLink to Institute Excessive Internet Use Policy
CenturyLink has posted an Excessive Usage Policy (EUP) on its Website, which it says will become effective in February 2012. CenturyLink's EUP applies to all residential high speed Internet customers and is only enforced in the downstream (from Internet to...
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| 11.29.2011 |
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Nokia Siemens Sells WiMAX Business
NewNet Communication Technologies plans to acquire the former Motorola Solutions’ WiMAX business from Nokia Siemens Networks. Under the terms of the agreement, NewNet will acquire the complete WiMAX product portfolio, the related employees and assets...
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| 11.28.2011 |
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Survey Sez: Consumers Don't Fast-Forward Through VOD Ads
Video on demand (VOD) advertising is viewed as a revenue growth opportunity for pay-TV providers. Approximately $65 billion is spent annually on linear ads, compared with about $1 billion for VOD. However, operators are beefing up their VOD offerings and are...
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| 11.28.2011 |
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Court Sets Deadline for Verizon To Stop Use of ActiveVideo Patents
In the continuing legal saga starring Verizon and ActiveVideo Networks, a judge has issued an injunction against Verizon, ordering the company to “cease and desist” from the "continued, unlawful use of intellectual property belonging to...
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| 11.28.2011 |
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RCN Equips New York Enterprises with Triple Play
RCN New York has released details of its featured enterprise products. In addition to its New York business cable-TV services, RCN offers Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Trunking; and Ethernet Point-to-Point and Managed Router Services...
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| 11.28.2011 |
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Cablecos Increase Broadband Subscribers in Third Quarter
Leichtman Research Group (LRG) found the 18 largest cable and telephone providers in the United States, representing about 93 percent of the market, acquired about 635,000 net additional high-speed Internet subscribers in the third quarter of 2011, but that...
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| 11.23.2011 |
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Nokia Siemens Trims Work Force, Suppliers
Nokia Siemens Networks is eliminating 17,000 jobs worldwide by 2013, approximately 23 percent of its work force, with a goal to cut costs by Euro $1 billion by the end of 2013, compared to the end of 2011. The Finnish-German joint venture also plans to...
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