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| 04.28.2008 |
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Study: Rapid Shift in Residential Phone
According to an updated forecast from SNL Kagan, the cable industry is positioned to continue market share growth in the residential phone business, but the gains could prove tenuous. The study, titled "Cable Looks for Phone Share Gains Amid...
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| 04.23.2008 |
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Vapps Updates Skype Extra
Vapps, a provider of audioconferencing services, today announced an update of its Skype Extra, a plug-in that launches the full feature set of its High-Definition Conferencing (HD-C) service from within the Skype Internet...
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| 04.21.2008 |
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Skype Expands Unlimited Calling
Skype has expanded unlimited calling subscriptions for consumers in the United States and Canada, with a single, monthly flat rate subscription for unlimited...
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| 04.04.2008 |
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Cogeco Extends Phone Service
Cogeco Cable has launched its Digital Phone service in Ridgeway, Ontario. Since its initial launch, the Digital Phone...
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| 04.03.2008 |
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Vulnerabilities Found in Enterprise VoIP Systems
VoIPshield Laboratories, the research division of VoIPshield Systems, has discovered more than 100 security vulnerabilities in VoIP systems marketed by...
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| 03.10.2008 |
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Biz Tel: Real-World Wiring
As more operators offer business telephony in addition to a residential offering, operators are finding that supporting business communications differs from supporting the residential triple play. Just as important as the service dimensions of this support is...
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| 02.28.2008 |
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Finances, VoWi-Fi and Innovation
It's always a tricky business to get into telecommunications finances because they're more tangled than the wires behind your home entertainment center and harder to read than the instructions that came with that do-it-yourself bookshelf from Ikea. Still, a...
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| 02.11.2008 |
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Residential vs. Business Voice
As cable operators expand telephony offerings, they encounter both similarities and significant differences in delivery requirements for commercial and residential services. "We have two networks," said Charles Scarborough, director of product...
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| 02.07.2008 |
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360AM: Less Dirt on FX
Cable360AM — News briefing for Thursday, Feb. 7 » It’s February 7. One week to go before Valentines Day. Gentlemen, forget it and you’ll regret it. Good morning. The writers strike has claimed additional episodes of FX’s Dirt and...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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Watching the PacketCable Barometer
CableLabs' current activities may not be a foolproof indicator of cable's future service offerings, but history indicates that they correlate well with how we got to where we are today. DOCSIS-compliant plant and customer premises equipment (CPE)...
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| 01.31.2008 |
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360AM: TNS Mining DirecTV Set-Top Data
Cable360AM — News briefing for Thursday, Jan. 31 » TNS Media Research will be gathering set-top box usage data from 100,000 households that subscribe to DirecTV, the Wall Street Journal reports. The data gathered by the new TNS DirecTView service...
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| 01.23.2008 |
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360AM: Showbiz Reels From the 'R' Word
Cable360AM — News briefing for Wednesday, Jan. 23 » Cable360 tipster Brain Clark tells us that the surprising high demand for vintage rotary phones is not a good sign for the economy. Good morning. The tumbling stock market continues to damage...
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| 01.14.2008 |
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We're Number Four! We're Number Four!
Comcast stopped short of hiring the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders to announce that it is now the nation's fourth largest telephone company, although the way the top MSO embraced the showbiz atmosphere of CES, it wouldn't have been a huge surprise to see...
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| 01.14.2008 |
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Ad-Based Phone Service?
Now that traditional ad supported video is losing ground via DVR fast-forward, wouldn't it be great if the ad-supported model could be migrated to one of cable's new services? San Jose, CA-based Pudding Media believes its platform does exactly that trick for...
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| 01.14.2008 |
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360AM: Reality's Triumph Could Hurt Writers—and Broadcast's Bottom Line
Cable360AM — News briefing for Monday, Jan. 14 » Reality shows that have replaced classically scripted series on broadcast networks because of the writers’ strike have performed very well, in some cases besting the ratings of the originally...
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| 01.10.2008 |
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Cable’s Top 10 Causes of Insomnia in ’08
1. FCC. Need I say more? FCC chairman Kevin Martin is on a Cable Holy War of some sort—although we’re not sure what religion he’s defending. Regulationism? In any event, cable’s strategy of waiting out Martin over the next year in...
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| 01.09.2008 |
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Telcos Unsheathing Wireless Weapon
The telcos are starting to exploit their market-leading mobile wireless assets in their all-fronts competition with cable operators. This long-anticipated development coincides with the removal of internal organizational obstacles at each of the telcos. At...
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| 01.01.2008 |
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TELEPHONY:
Avoiding Telephony Gremlins
Square 1 The first rule of telephony troubleshooting is trouble avoidance. While it’s tempting to cut time per installation by doing a quick disconnect-reconnect from the other telephony service to yours without a check of all phone outlets, don’t...
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| 12.20.2007 |
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360AM: CableLabs Still Waiting for Motorola
Cable360AM — News briefing for Thursday, Dec. 20 » A Cable360 exclusive: The WGA has refused to grant Yule Log writers permission to return to work before Christmas. Good morning. Motorola may submit its DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem termination system...
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| 12.17.2007 |
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VoiP Providers Push New Pricing Models
Residential voice telephony has become an unlikely hotbed for clever new products and new pricing models. For example, several VoIP providers are now promoting unlimited calling for one-time or low annual upfront payments, notably Ooma (www.ooma.com) and...
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