Clearwire has officially launched its second WiMAX market with today’s introduction of Clear mobile WiMAX service in Atlanta. Like its counterpart in Portland, the Clearwire network in Atlanta runs on Motorola radio infrastructure equipment – the Motorola WAP 400 and WAP 450 access points – and bundles service with consumer access devices from Motorola – [...]
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Here’s a piece of news a bit outside the norm for this blog. BT, the parent group for British Telecom, is trialing Motorola software for the upcoming Paralympic World Cup that will deliver highlight videos and other event content to consumer mobile handsets. It’s a services and software engagement, but there is a common thread [...]
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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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While The Cable Show is now over for another year, I’ve collected plenty of related content for an ongoing series of posts. First up: This video shows a demo of the Motorola MOVR, which is an evolution of the MCUBE concept device I wrote about last September. (Just discovered Motorola has [...]
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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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The first general session at The Cable Show was a Who’s Who of the industry. Moderated by William Kennard of the Carlyle Group, the panel consisted of Cox president Pat Esser, Suddenlink CEO Jerald Kent, Clearwire chairman Craig McCaw, and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts. Everyone was generally in agreement about cable’s issues and opportunities, except [...]
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The Cable Show announcements keep rolling. Motorola launched a new line of voice and data modems this morning with integrated Wi-Fi. In keeping with the trend of cable operators getting more involved in the home network, the introduction of embedded Wi-Fi squarely puts service providers in the business of wireless home connections. All of the [...]
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Home networks are growing increasingly complicated. In my own household we have set-tops, several PCs/netbooks, and an Internet-connected stereo system. Generally our network runs pretty smoothly, but the occasional hiccup leads to a reboot of the router, modem, one of the many CE devices, or some combination of all of the above. Not too mention [...]
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Until mobile data services went through the roof, cable had limited interest in the wireless aspect of the so-called quad play. But now that mobile broadband has evolved into an extension of the home Internet connection, every major MSO has a wireless strategy.
Today, Comcast launched a trial Wi-Fi service in conjunction with Cablevision in New [...]
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A new research report from Yankee Group points out interesting distinctions in broadband connectivity across different regions of the world. For example, in most places wireless broadband access has outpaced wired; the only exception being Latin America where operators have just started rolling out 3G services.
As someone living in the US, this surprises me. Other [...]
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