At CES this year Motorola announced a new rechargeable IPTV remote control complete with “find” feature, USB port, and digital clock. Now there’s word that Motorola is tinkering further with the gadget to add Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony. Todd Spangler at Multichannel News got the scoop, including this quote from product manager Mostafa Reza:
If [...]
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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 phone [...]
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In the world’s developed countries, the expectation for guaranteed, traditional phone service is slowly receding. Great Britain is the latest country to propose exchanging the requirement of guaranteed home phone access for delivery of a basic broadband connection to every home. In other words, get ready to say goodbye to some of British Telecom’s copper [...]
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Jeff Baumgartner has a great post up on cable commercial services today. He’s collected data on several different MSOs and combined it with operator quotes and analysis from Heavy Reading’s Alan Breznick. Interestingly, Jeff’s findings seem to confirm something I wrote back in July, namely that there’s no known sweet spot for the number of [...]
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Now this surprised me. In a study conducted by Motorola in Europe and the Middle East, 32% of Millennials (ages 16-27) said they prefer to watch programming on a PC rather than a TV set. At first glance, the statistic makes no sense. If you could watch video on a big-screen, potentially high-definition television, why [...]
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Despite the fact that my wireless coverage on this blog has been entirely dedicated to WiMAX and LTE, there are other wireless technologies that deserve attention as well. Motorola launched its next generation push-to-talk (PTT) solution for CDMA networks today, and I had a chance to sit down with Motorola’s Jacqueline Majka, Senior Product Marketing [...]
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Back in May when Motorola announced the new Modular embedded Multimedia Terminal Adapter (M-eMTA), I made a mental note to go back and study the product in more detail. DOCSIS 3.0 devices have grabbed a lot of the media attention, but the M-eMTA Motorola announced (currently DOCSIS 2.0-based) is interesting because it gives cable operators [...]
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Inevitably at trade shows I pile up notes and photos of things I’d like to cover, and yet I never get around to posting on everything. With that in mind, here are a few of the items that slipped through the cracks at The Cable Show.
Motorola Digital Transport Adapter
This puppy got a lot of [...]
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As I’m still wrapping up coverage of the products and demos from CES, here’s a quick look at Motorola’s VDSL2+ gateway. Per my earlier conversation with Alan Lefkof, it looks like this will be a big year for upgrades from ADSL to VDSL. The gateway shown here (Motorola Netopia 7000 series) can [...]
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In a parade of pre-CES press releases (more info to come), Motorola announced the Surfboard SBV5422 IP phone-plus-modem today. As a veteran of earlier cordless phone endeavors (it’s a margin-eating business), I was skeptical when I first heard about this product, but it does combine a home phone with something Motorola is very good [...]
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