As a rabid college basketball fan, it warms my heart to see March Madness covered everywhere. Since the early days when we were limited to whatever games the networks chose to broadcast, our options have grown substantially. Online, CBS streams all tournament games for free via a March Madness on Demand portal. (Now available on [...]
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Comcast has a press release out today proudly stating its promotion to third largest phone company in the nation. I posted a note two years ago when the company hit 2 million digital voice subscribers, and now that number has more than tripled to 6.47 million. While cable has had tremendous success entering the residential [...]
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Bob Larribeau over at the TelecomView analyst firm has posted some new numbers on global IPTV activity. Including Verizon, which uses a hybrid QAM/IP network architecture, Larribeau lists five IPTV providers worldwide with one million subscribers or more. They include: Free in France Verizon China Telecom France Telecom AT&T Larribeau also estimates that there are [...]
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Leightman Research Group has come out with a report (via GigaOM) showing that the rate of broadband growth slowed in 2008 compared to 2007 and 2006. That makes sense. The industry is maturing and we entered a recession last year. However, it’s important to put the news in context. Even though the subscriber growth rate [...]
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This morning I had the good fortune to talk with Mark Bell, vice president of industry affairs at the NCTA, about the forthcoming Broadband Nation exhibit planned for this year’s Cable Show. Before getting to some of the details of the exhibit, we talked briefly about how the Cable Show ended up in Washington DC [...]
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