Charter Communications is well on its way in achieving its goal of having 100 HD channels deployed across its footprint by mid-year. To wit: Charter will add 20 HD channels in Michigan next month. During the cable operator’s first-quarter earnings call earlier this month, Charter CEO Tom Rutledge said the original plan was to have […]
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TWC engineers IP workaround for Fleet Week in NYC
Time Warner Cable posted a blog and video yesterday about how the cable operator overcomes the frequency noise that is associated with Fleet Week in New York City. With Navy and Coast Guard ships, along with various military-related aircraft, on hand during the Fleet Week New York event, Time Warner Cable ran into problems with […]
Sprint sets hard stop for iDEN operations
Sprint plans to shut down its iDEN network as early as June 30, 2013, allowing it to reuse the service’s spectrum for LTE. The operator had previously said it planned to operate the service into next year but did not name a cutoff date. The Tuesday announcement set a hard date for the end of […]
FCC wireless chief Kaplan resigns
The head of the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau has resigned after a tumultuous one-year term. Rick Kaplan handled the Commission’s review of AT&T’s failed merger with T-Mobile and led the eventual decision to block the transaction. He is also leading the agency’s review of Verizon Wireless’ purchase of AWS spectrum from Comcast, Time Warner Cable, […]
Yale’s Horwich shares $1 million life science prize
Arthur Horwich of the Yale School of Medicine was named co-winner of the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine, announced the Shaw Prize Foundation in Hong Kong. Horwich, Sterling Professor of Genetics, professor of pediatrics, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, will share the $1 million prize with Franz-Ulrich Hartl of the Max […]
Flextronics Receives Service Supplier Of The Year Award From Ciena
Flextronics (NASDAQ: FLEX) today announced that it was honored as Ciena Corporation’s 2012 Service Supplier of the Year. The award was presented to Flextronics in recognition and appreciation of outstanding performance, innovation, collaboration and responsiveness to Ciena’s business objectives. “Flextronics plays a crucial role in supporting deliveries of time sensitive products to Ciena’s customers. Their […]
Sunrise Telecom appoints new directors
Sunrise Telecom has appointed two new board members, replacing two members who resigned. Peter Kamin and Alan Howe replace Henry Huff and Jennifer Walt. Kamin is currently the founder and managing partner of 3K Limited Partnership. For the previous 11 years, he was a founding member and managing partner of ValueAct Capital. Prior to founding […]
Comcast debuts app for on-demand streaming to Android devices
Comcast has added on-demand streaming capabilities to Android devices on its free Xfinity TV Player app. In March of last year, Comcast released an Xfinity TV app for Android devices, but at the time, it didn’t include streaming capabilities. With the latest update, Comcast said its subscribers could access “thousands” of Xfinity On Demand TV […]
Sprint gets $1B loan for Ericsson network gear
Sprint has landed a $1 billion credit facility that will provide extra cash for its network upgrade project. The money will be used to buy equipment from Ericsson, one of Sprint’s three vendors for the overhaul. Deutsche Bank and a group of other banks are providing the loan, due in March 2017. Separately, Sprint announced […]
Report: Residential gateways boost broadband revenue
Global penetration rates for broadband services may be reaching the saturation point, but residential gateways are allowing service providers to add incremental revenues via new services such as home automation and the distribution of video to multi-screens. “With residential gateway revenue dropping because of price declines and a saturated broadband subscriber base, operators are looking […]