In the continuation of our series of executive interviews, I spoke with Motorola’s Fred Wright last week on WiMAX milestones in 2008, and the prospects for WiMAX in 2009. (Scroll down for podcast) In the US, we saw the launch of Sprint’s Xohm service in Baltimore in October, the approval of the Sprint/Clearwire merger, and [...]
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After months of watching news on Comcast’s DOCSIS 3.0 deployments, it finally occurred to me to troll around online to see how subscribers are responding to the new higher-speed service tiers. I didn’t find much, but what I did find was promising. Check out this post from a Broadband Reports forum: I called up to [...]
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Bargains are the one upside of a down economy, and it looks like we’ll see low prices beyond just the Black Friday gadget deals this year. Cable and telco providers have a lot of reasons to entice video subscribers this season. First, even though pay TV is essentially a luxury service, it’s the type of [...]
Multichannel News reports that the Senate passed a bill today to keep some analog stations on the air for 30 days beyond the fixed February 17th transition date. The idea is to provide a “nightlight” period before complete analog darkness that allows stations to broadcast public safety announcements and information about the DTV transition. While [...]
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About this time last year I started doing a series of interviews on the blog with executives leading up to CES. This year I lucked out and had a chance to meet face to face with CTO Ray Sokola for his take on what we’ll see in 2009 and beyond. The video above (about three [...]
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