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| 05.01.2007 |
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Telephony: Clearing Some Fog and Noise
Just when I thought I was clear on fixed-mobile convergence (FMC), I got two new press releases that started another train of thought. They made me think that from the consumer's point of view, the choices to be made as service providers offer the quad play...
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| 05.01.2007 |
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WiMAX and FMC:
Our fastidious contributing editor sticks a thermometer into the WiMAX and fixed mobile convergence categories to see if they're anywhere near done yet....
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| 03.30.2007 |
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FMC: The Men and the Myth
There's been a lot of talk - and not just at the CTIA Wireless Show - about fixed-mobile convergence (FMC), the telecommunications nirvana where you can access every bit of data you've acquired since you were born wherever you are and whenever you want...
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| 03.22.2007 |
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Cell Block
There's a new device floating around the broadband mobile wireless space - if mobile broadband is not an oxymoron - that will impact cable, home networking and the emerging fixed-mobile convergence (FMC). Femtocells, small in-building base stations that...
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| 03.01.2007 |
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Getting a Fix on FMC
The telecommunications space can be a challenging thing to understand. Information provided to and in consumer media via news releases from both vendors and operators and especially during earnings conference calls can deviate sharply from reality. Press...
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| 02.15.2007 |
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Unlocking the Video Treasure Chest
Cable operators have buried treasure – aka recorded media – in DVR-enabled set-top boxes in their consumers' homes, and they should give consumers the keys to retrieve it and do with it what they'd like, including carrying it out of the house...
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| 02.15.2007 |
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Digital Signals: Breaking Up Better Be Hard to Do
For those of you who may have missed it while fighting winter storms and sundry strains of influenza, competition has arrived. The hype's over: Verizon is serious about television, and cable is serious about telephony, and the satellite guys know that HD is...
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| 01.12.2007 |
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JV Rolls a SEVEN
Appropriately enough, during a week when CES had the world's eyes riveted on Las Vegas, the cable-Sprint Nextel joint venture rolled a SEVEN for mobile email services. The decision to use email software from Redwood City, CA-based SEVEN isn't a gamble for the...
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| 01.12.2007 |
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A Switch in Time of Flux
While the cable industry is understandably excited about its joint venture with Sprint Nextel and how that will facilitate the quadruple play, some people insist on throwing in a reality blanket. One them is Jenny Fielding, COO of Switch-Mobile, whose company...
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| 01.12.2007 |
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Telephone on TV
If there's any certainty about what's going to happen in 2007, it's the thought that talking is only going to be one minor function of what a telephone is all about, as even the carriers are demonstrating. "I see an opportunity for us to evolve the...
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| 01.08.2007 |
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JDSU Scoops Up Casabyte
The much-ballyhooed quad play seems to be heating up this year. Last week JDSU announced it had nabbed Casabyte, which provides service quality monitoring for mobile network operators, for an undisclosed sum. Casabyte's customer base includes major tier 1...
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| 01.05.2007 |
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Beyond Home Networking
The CES will also usher in a new company – 4HomeMedia – that doesn't really care whether it gets its signal from IPTV or RF or wireless. "You need broadband access to connect back to our portal," said Brad Kayton, the company's marketing...
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| 01.03.2007 |
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Cox's Smithpeters on Sprint JV
Last month, we profiled Cox's Craig Smithpeters, manager, advanced technology and standards, in CT's Pipeline, but ran out of room to include his thoughts on the cable operators' joint venture with Sprint Nextel. Here's what Smithpeters had to say: Is the...
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| 01.01.2007 |
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Telephony: Cleanup Time
Last year, many operators achieved respectable penetrations levels for public switched telephone network (PSTN) quality plain old telephone service (POTS) and this year will be looking at new offerings to continue expanding their telephony base. Converged...
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| 01.01.2007 |
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Seamless Content on Demand
Making it happen means aligning network-based media centers, metadata translators, transcoding extensions to system resource managers, IMS and PacketCable adoption paths, new conditional access and licensing systems, and more....
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| 12.14.2006 |
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Just Call Him 'Sir Speedy'
Bill DeMuth, CTO at SureWest Communications, doesn't have any worries about bandwidth. He's delivering an unholy 100 Mbps to every residence in the company's 100,000-home fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) serving area in Roseville, CA. That's enough speed that the...
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| 12.07.2006 |
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Cisco Pulling Together the Pieces of its IP Dream
For the nostalgic among us (or those whose brains just don't sort out the good from the bad), this used to be the time of year the cable industry would gather among browning Christmas trees withering under yellow skies at the Western Cable Show in Anaheim...
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| 12.07.2006 |
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Microsoft TV: BT Thinks It's Real
Another early season gift for the cable industry was this week's announcement that the much-maligned Microsoft TV has new life in the Old World. BT (that's British Telecom to the non-telco types out there) launched its new TV and entertainment service, BT...
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| 12.01.2006 |
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CDMA Test System
Product name: IS-41 and IOS A1 CDMA2000 simulators Company: Sunrise Telecom Features/what it does: Provides concurrent CDMA2000 simulation and monitoring in one unit; designed for...
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| 11.16.2006 |
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Who Controls the Content?
Web-developed content is reminiscent of the early days of cable when 38 networks were pushing for space within a 36-channel universe. In those days, of course, cable operators had ready answers for subs screaming "I want my MTV" … a headshake...
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