Remember when I said we were about to hear a lot more about femtocells? Well In-Stat predicts there will be 101.5 million end-users worldwide within five years. You know once the analyst firms start putting out statistics that it’s just the start of the hype cycle.
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Operators who made a firm commitment to go all-digital in the near future got special consideration from the FCC on CableCARD waiver requests. But there’s another reason to push digital penetration rates to 100%. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is now floating a proposal to mandate that cable companies transmit so-called “must carry” channels in both [...]
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A pair of articles in yesterday’s CTAM SmartBrief illustrates how far video-on-demand has come and how far it still has to go. The first is a USA Today article that reports on how RHI Entertainment will produce 24 made-for-TV movies exclusively for a VOD audience through mid-2008. This isn’t quite as good as what Mark [...]
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New reports on the Torrent Freak site suggest that Comcast is inhibiting certain P2P activities with traffic-shaping technology. I don’t find this terribly surprising, but it does make me wonder when we’ll hit the tipping point where access to P2P applications becomes a large enough consumer issue that ISPs have to address the issue publicly. [...]
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I’ve been wondering about cable digital subscriber numbers in the wake of the Seven-Oh-Seven deadline. Comcast had a major promotional push going on prior to the deadline, presumably in the hopes of clearing out its inventory of non-CableCARD set-tops. Did it pay off in digital subscribers? Yes, it did. In spades. One year ago, Comcast [...]
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