Cable companies expand free Wi-Fi
Marguerite Reardon, CNet News, 5/21/2012 The nation’s biggest cable operators are banding together to offer free Wi-Fi access to their broadband customers in more than 50,000 hotspots around the country. On Monday, Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications, and Time Warner Cable announced on the first day of the Cable Show here that they’d [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Comcast, FCC, Hotspot, Verizon, WiFi
Hedge Fund Manager Falcone’s Big Bet On Wireless Broadband
Tricia Duryee, MocoNews.net, 8/27/2010 Investors in the Harbinger’s hedge fund are increasingly uncomfortable with Philip Facone’s obsession with building a high-speed wireless broadband network. Falcone, who got rich by out-smarting the subprime housing bubble, has committed roughly $3 billion or 40 percent of the fund’s assets to LightSquared, making the telecom company the hedge fund’s [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 4G, AT&T, Clearwire, Comcast, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, Vodafone
AT&T, Verizon join Wi-Fi roaming group
Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service, 6/22/2010 Cisco and Comcast have also recently joined the WBA, which provides for easy roaming onto hot spots AT&T and Verizon Wireless, the two largest U.S. mobile operators, have joined an organization that ensures roaming among mobile operators’ Wi-Fi networks. The group, called the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), also announced [...]
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Deep packet inspection soon to be $1.5 billion business
Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 6/16/2010 Deep packet inspection (DPI) hardware continues to sell, with ABI Research now estimating that vendors will move $1.3 billion of the stuff in 2015, up from $207 million in 2008. According to Infonetics Research, DPI will be a $1.5 billion business—by 2013. What will DPI devices be used for? According to [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, Comcast, FCC, Skype
Sprint, Clearwire CEOs ponder LTE for future
Marguerite Reardon, CNET News, 3/25/2010 Sprint Nextel and Clearwire executives admitted Wednesday that they could follow the rest of the worldwide wireless network and adopt LTE for future network upgrades. Spring Nextel CEO Dan Hesse and Clearwire CEO Bill Morrow sat down separately and talked to CTIA CEO Steve Largent during the keynote session on [...]
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Making the most of 4G networks
Sue Marek, FierceWireless, 3/8/2010 It’s no longer a question of which technology U.S. wireless carriers will use for their next-generation network technology, but a question of when they’ll use it. With the exception of Clearwire and its wholesale network partners like Sprint Nextel, Comcast and Time Warner, service providers in the U.S. have charted a migration path that [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 4G, AT&T, Clearwire, Comcast, Femtocell, LTE, Sprint, Verizon, WiFi
AT&T Says Metered Internet is Incoming, is Only Carrier With no 4G in 2010
Jason Mick, Daily Tech Gadgets, 3/3/2010 AT&T risks falling behind yet again in the cell phone technology race Metered internet pricing is a controversial suggestion. Basically, most iterations of the plan boil down to low-usage users’ costs remaining similar to current costs, but high usage users having to pay much more than their current rates. [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, Comcast, LTE, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, WiFi
Clearwire may consider 4G alternatives to WiMax
Marguerite Reardon, CNet News, 1/15/2010 WiMax may be Clearwire’s technology of choice today as it builds out its nationwide 4G wireless network, but the upstart carrier may eventually migrate to a competing technology that’s expected to be used by most of the world’s major wireless operators. Clearwire’s willingness to add additional 4G technologies to its [...]
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Will cable’s wireless gamble pay off?
Phil Goldstein, FierceWireless, 1/13/2010 All eyes will be on the cable operators to see whether their wireless offerings take flight in 2010. Several of the major cable companies have wireless efforts in progress. Cox Communications is launching wireless via Sprint Nextel’s CDMA network, while Comcast and Time Warner Cable are offering WiMAX via Clearwire’s network. [...]
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Beware of Comcast’s Growing Power
Ron Miller, DaniWeb, 12/20/2009 I write a lot of about the battle among large technology corporations in this space and the importance of competitive checks and balances. Yet Comcast seems to be growing into a super power with control over the very pipes that provide many of us with internet access, but without any real [...]
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