One of my questions leading up to the broadcast digital TV transition was how many OTA TV watchers would make the jump to cable, telco, or satellite service. According to an article by Todd Spangler, the answer is right around 653,000. Analyst Marci Ryvicker has estimates on how that number breaks down across categories too. [...]
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It’s a sign that the TV industry has changed when conversations from the Streaming Media East (SME) conference start sounding an awful lot like they could be transplanted directly from The Cable Show. Yesterday I sat in on an SME session entitled “Online Video and Set-Top Boxes”. With execs from Verizon, Motorola, TiVo and Showtime, [...]
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Even as we argue over how to fund more broadband in the US – particularly in rural, unserved and underserved areas – there appears to be renewed activity on the fiber network front. According to research firm TeleGeography (via GigaOM), more than 60% of US operators plan to light up more fiber in 2009, and [...]
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Here’s an interesting turn of events. Even as cable and telecom companies gear up with 4G wireless broadband strategies, Wi-Fi continues to grow in popularity, and more operators are starting to use it to their advantage. After news of Cablevision and Comcast offering free Wi-Fi at select hotspots to home broadband subscribers, it now turns [...]
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Amid all the talk about Verizon’s financial bet in choosing to deploy fiber to the home (FTTH), I thought I’d highlight another FTTH deployment, and why it’s been successful to date. Back in September, I posted about how a small telco called Hotwire Communications had chosen to use Motorola’s gigabit PON [...]
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Despite my focus on The Cable Show, there is quite a bit going on over at CTIA this week too. (Why do they schedule these things at the same time?) As analyst Paul Kapustka of Sidecut Reports leaked last week, Motorola is conducting live LTE drives around the conference area, mimicking [...]
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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 20 million IPTV subscribers globally. Given [...]
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Ever have to cycle your router when the home Wi-Fi network gets finicky? I do. But I also avoid the switch-off if at all possible. Though I could be using less energy by powering the router down when not in use, I’m irrationally convinced that fooling with it too much will break the thing. As [...]
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Here’s a bit of news that cable and telco TV providers can rejoice in together. According to Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett, online video watching is not causing a drop in pay-TV subscriptions. Despite recent articles touting the cord-cutting trend, and high-profile experiments in dropping subscription TV service from industry personalities like Daisy Whitney, the [...]
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Here’s the bad news for consumers: There’s no such thing as a free lunch, and Internet video won’t cost nothing forever.
As an analyst from Cowen and Company points out in his coverage of Netflix (link via EngadgetHD), “the more customers stream, the more Netflix (and other streamers) will have to pay studios for the content.” [...]
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