My good friend Dave Zatz is broadcasting with Qik from his cell phone at CTIA right now. Check out his live stuff and his video from the Motorola booth at Showstoppers.
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One of the Motorola news announcements I didn’t cover last week was the introduction of the company’s CDMA femtocell. Femtocells keep getting buzz, and the latest stats out of ABI Research suggest there will be 70 million femtocells in the world by 2012 and roughly 200 people using them. (That’s up from [...]
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The latest out of IMS Research shows that nearly 8.4 million IP set-tops shipped worldwide in 2007, and the research firm predicts IPTV households to grow 52.2% annually through 2012. Primary markets include Asia (China and South Korea) and Europe. However, AT&T is on target to hit one million IPTV households by the [...]
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Taking a break for the moment from the highly technical posts, here’s some news that was somewhat obscured by yesterday’s corporate announcement that Motorola will split into two parts. (There, I’ve said it. No, I don’t have any more information. No, I can’t speculate on how the split will occur.) In [...]
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Get ready for a flood of wireless news and analysis in the run-up to CTIA. Among the topics of discussion will be fierce debate on the current state of WiMAX, and in fact it’s begun already. I opened up TechMeme this morning and was greeted by the news that several cable companies are [...]
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Back in the cable modem termination system (CMTS) lab a couple of weeks ago I had several colleagues wandering around with video cameras capturing conversations and lab shots throughout the day. Above is a snippet of Kevin Sullivan, senior director of engineering at Motorola, talking about integrated CMTS versus modular CMTS. (Amateur editing [...]
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The lunchtime speaker at last week’s Policy Symposium was Meredith Baker, acting administrator for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). And although the session didn’t have much to do with the rest of the conference, Ms. Baker was chock full of updates on the federal DTV converter box coupon program.
First, the [...]
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Even though Comcast has placed money on the Internet side of on-demand video delivery, it’s still banking on the success of traditional VOD. After promising at CES to offer more than 6,000 movies on demand by the end of the year, the operator just this past week announced some impressive stats to date:
Seven billion [...]
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While I was off playing in DC, Motorola officially added to its tally of WiMAX deals. Yesterday came news of a trial in Thailand, the first successful mobile WiMAX trial in the country. Today came word of a WiMAX infrastructure contract in Saudi Arabia.
LTE may be the media darling of wireless technologies at [...]
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I spent yesterday at Cynthia Brumfield’s phenomenal, closed-to-the-press Internet Video Policy Symposium. There were quite a few FCC economists present (current and former) and a number of lawyers and academics. Much of what was discussed was outside the scope of this particular blog, but it was all good food for thought, and you [...]
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