As referenced yesterday, I sat down with a Motorola exec recently to get an update on the femtocell market. One of my big takeaways from the conversation was that the market varies widely from region to region. That shouldn’t be a surprise given the landscape of the mobile industry, but still the differences were far [...]
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Timed to coincide with a Motorola customer event in San Diego this week, Motorola announced today the availability of its new line of VDSL2 gateways. We saw a sample gateway back at CES, but three versions of the product have now been officially released into the wild. The line of gateways is called the Motorola [...]
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As part of the deal for its CableCARD waiver last year, Verizon promised to convert to all-digital video signals by the time of the official analog shut-off in 2009. To do that, the operator is looking at providing free digital set-tops to its analog holdovers, and today I confirmed those set-tops will be Motorola [...]
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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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It’s been difficult to sort through the debate over mobile WiMAX in my own mind. On the one hand, people who experience it walk away impressed. On the other hand, there has been significant skepticism since the break-up of Sprint and Clearwire and Verizon’s decision to move forward with LTE as a 4G [...]
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There’s more video and commentary to come, but to wrap up today I thought I’d plug in a few photos from the Motorola booth for anyone who’s not at this gargantuan show we call CES.
This is a photo of the cordless IP phone that goes with the SBV5422 announced last week. See screenshots further [...]
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L to R: Fred Wright (Motorola) Geoff Roman (Motorola) Craig Cuttner (HBO) John Burke (Motorola)
I promised to write more on the Motorola set-top announcement with BT, and after just sitting through a panel session with several Motorola executives and Dan Marks, the CEO of BT Vision, I feel more than equipped to provide additional context. [...]
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In my continuing quest for information pre-CES, I spoke with Motorola VP and GM Alan Lefkof a short while ago. Alan came over with Netopia (he was CEO) when Motorola acquired the company earlier this year, and today he’s in charge of the Motorola Broadband Solutions Group (BSG). The group includes broadband [...]
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There will be a lot of WiMAX technology on display from Motorola at CES, including the new CPEi 100 single-data-port modem announced today. From the press release, the CPEi 100 will be “one of the devices used during CES on a demonstration WiMAX network built by Motorola in conjunction with Intel and Clearwire.” [...]
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Last week’s conversation with Geoff Roman was good for more than the requisite prognostications that fill up blogs and news stories this time of year. The discussion also included the most succinct overview of Motorola’s acquisition strategy that I’ve heard yet. I’m referring specifically to the acquisitions made in the last 24 months [...]
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