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 [...]
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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 Americans [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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It’s got to be rare that a financial analyst is proud to predict an event that only has a 2% chance of occurring, but my friend and occasional sounding board Arnie Berman is quite pleased to do just that. His firm Cowen and Company published a report earlier this month titled Top 10 Potential [...]
Broadband Reports has a post up about AT&T’s new 10 Mbps service dropping on February 1st, and I have a nice little chart to go along with Karl Bode’s analysis of the throughput numbers. (See above) With VDSL2, AT&T can deliver roughly 50 Mbps with copper loop lengths of 1,000 feet, and roughly [...]
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I’ve watched closely over the last 12-18 months as Comcast has adjusted its approach to online video, and I believe folks have underestimated the company’s strategy and foresight. Just as the Web video craze is exploding into the mainstream, Comcast has launched a hit with Fancast. Unlike its video attempts on the Comcast.net [...]
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The news that HBO (a Time Warner company) will offer its programming for free online to HBO subscribers is all over the tech blogs today, with an interesting range of commentary. Most interesting to me is Cynthia Brumfield’s argument on whether or not the news goes against Time Warner’s planned initiative to test metered [...]
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The Pew Internet and American Life Project put out a report last month stating that 64% of online teens were “Content Creators” in 2007. This means that nearly two thirds of the teenage population created and shared original content on the Web. I can’t think of a more revealing statistic with regard to [...]
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