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: [...]
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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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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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