Clearwire today announced a wholesale agreement that will enable EarthLink to offer its customers high-speed fixed and mobile broadband service using Clearwire’s WiMAX network. EarthLink’s wireless service will initially target consumers for in-home use and is expected to launch in early 2013. Future product offerings will include mobile devices and new services for small business […]
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C Spire lights up LTE in Mississippi
Regional provider C Spire Wireless has switched on its LTE network in Mississippi after problems getting equipment compatible with its 700 MHz A-block spectrum caused a nine-month delay in the service’s launch. The network went live today in Greenville, Miss., and will expand to 30 more markets in the state by the end of October, […]
Cable doubles down on Wi-Fi
The U.S. cable industry appears to have decided what its wireless strategy is: It is going to create a vast public Wi-Fi network that requisitions bandwidth from all the home routers it has installed and allocate it to public access. Broadcom, whose chips are the heart of so much cable customer premises equipment (CPE), is […]
Liberty Global out of the starting blocks with Horizon TV service
It has taken a village of vendors, but Liberty Global’s Horizon TV platform, which enables home networking, TV Everywhere services, personal recommendations and Internet applications to TVs, is now available to subscribers in the Netherlands. Following on the heels of the launch by Liberty Global’s UPC Netherlands, Horizon TV will be rolled out in Switzerland, […]
Rovi updates DivX for streaming
Rovi has been very, very busy recently. It has revised its DivX codec, which was written for file-based transfer, to support streaming, and it has arranged for Broadcom to support the upgraded DivX Plus Streaming in one of its major set-top box chips, the BCM7241. DivX is historically associated with Blu-ray discs, Rovi noted, but […]
Studying sex differences in autism focus of $15 million NIH award to Yale center
The reasons why autism spectrum disorders are almost five times more common among boys than among girls may soon be revealed, thanks to a five-year, $15 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant awarded to Yale School of Medicine for the Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) research program. Led by principal investigator Kevin Pelphrey of […]
SCTE picks Comcast Business Services for scalable Ethernet bandwidth
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers has upgraded its training and inter-office capabilities with Ethernet services from Comcast Business Services. SCTE makes its headquarters in Exton, Pa., which is part of Comcast’s Freedom Region. The SCTE is using Comcast Business Class Ethernet and Business Class Trunks to provision advanced data and voice capabilities across multiple […]
AT&T boasts 7 new LTE markets
AT&T is going full throttle with the rollout of its LTE network with today’s launch of seven new markets and expansion in two others, bringing its total LTE markets to 60. The carrier lit up LTE in Anchorage, Ala.; Bakersfield, Calif.; Bridgeport, Conn.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Modesto, Calif.; Omaha, Neb.; and Syracuse, N.Y. The company expanded […]
VoLTE’s No. 1 objective: Efficiency
When MetroPCS rolled out the country’s first smartphone to route voice calls over an LTE network in August, its primary objective wasn’t finding a new way to compete with the big guys. Instead, its top priority was making the most efficient use of its scarce spectrum resources. “The initial value proposition … is really about […]
Tough gel stretches to 21 times its length, recoils, and heals itself
Cambridge, Mass. – September 5, 2012 – A team of experts in mechanics, materials science, and tissue engineering at Harvard have created an extremely stretchy and tough gel that may pave the way to replacing damaged cartilage in human joints. Called a hydrogel, because its main ingredient is water, the new material is a hybrid […]