Copyright 2005 Gannett Company, Inc. USA TODAY August 23, 2005, Tuesday, FIRST EDITION By Leslie Cauley From Lexis Nexis NEW YORK — One little-noticed provision of the 1992 Cable Act could give the Federal Communications Commission the power to compel cities to let the regional Bells compete head-on with cable TV operators. And to do […]
Grande will concentrate on adding customers
Copyright 2005 San Antonio Express-News All Rights Reserved San Antonio Express-News August 16, 2005 Tuesday STATE&METRO Edition By Sanford Nowlin, Express-News Business Writer From Lexis Nexis Grande Communications Inc. — the San Marcos-based phone, Internet and cable provider — on Monday said it plans to put less effort into expanding its fiber-optic network and more […]
Broadband 50 – December 2004
2004 2003 2002 2001 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 Take your seats ringside, and welcome to the fourth edition of CED’s Broadband 50, our list of the broadband champs and top contenders–the companies, technologies and people who we think have shaped and influenced the broadband sector in 2004, and those who are challenging to do […]
Vendors line up CableLabs demos
A batch of vendors will show off a range of products and services at next week’s (Aug. 14-17) CableLabs Summer Conference in Keystone, Colo. • C-COR Inc. will demo three products: a Policy Server Manager for the PacketCable Multimedia (PCMM) architecture, the n5 video server and VoiceAssure, the latest app for its CableEdge suite. On […]
ntl matches speed and usage with 10-Meg upgrade
U.K.-based cable operator ntl is boosting its downstream speeds to 10 Mbps, but will match the upgrade with consumption-based tiering. Although current 3 Mbps customers will be the first to receive the upgrade, ntl said 10 Mbps will be the standard speed as it is offered across the board by year-end. Some customers will be […]
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CED, the premier monthly magazine of broadband communications, welcomes press releases on topics of interest to broadband communications industry professionals. Editorial focus is on the technological developments that are shaping existing broadband networks and the communications networks of the 21st century. CED's target audience is corporate and system management and engineering/technical management at cable TV, […]
Verizon keeps on building
Copyright 2005 TheStreet.com July 26, 2005 Tuesday 2:11 PM Eastern Time By Scott Moritz, Senior Writer From Lexis Nexis Verizon is paying a bigger tab to cover growth expenses. The New York phone giant says it will increase its 2005 capital spending budget to $15.3 billion, up from the $14.6 billion previously projected and $2 […]
Japan to test TV ‘recasting’
Copyright 2005 Kyodo News Service Japan Economic Newswire July 21, 2005 Thursday From Lexis Nexis Japan plans to test live-broadcast of terrestrial digital television programs on the Internet via fiber-optic cable networks starting this fall, government officials said Thursday. If successful, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications hopes to introduce the service in 2006. […]