Edge QAMs have been getting a fair bit of industry attention recently, not least of all because of the recent Kagan conference, “QAM Before the Storm”. (Still my favorite name for an event ever…) Some at the Kagan conference were predicting the near-term end of edge QAM devices given the coming shift from RF technology [...]
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I haven’t done a stat round-up in a while, so here’s a list of some of the interesting ones I’ve run across recently. They reflect quite a range of video and TV trends. ABI Research predicts 215 million video downloads this year and 2.4 billion video downloads in 2012 Pew research found that 14% of [...]
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Part 1 of WiMAX at CES focused on the themes I heard in a panel with Sprint, Motorola, Intel and others. Part 2 is based on a sit-down session I had with Motorola’s Fred Wright, an SVP for cellular networks and broadband. Not surprisingly, Part 2 is more Motorola-specific. Here is what Fred Wright had [...]
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I promise I will get to Part 2 of the WiMAX at CES series, but in the meantime there’s news out today that Wateen Telecom out of Pakistan is purchasing 198,000 WiMAX consumer premise equipment (CPE) devices from Motorola. That’s not even on the same scale as Motorola cable modem shipments, but for a new [...]
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I enjoy the Super Bowl as much as the next person (particularly now that the Cowboys have been demoralized), but I’ve always thought it a bit absurd to buy a new TV for one game. Apparently so do more than 85% of the readers over on EngadgetHD. In a pre-Super-Bowl poll, respondents showed they are [...]
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