Time Warner Cable MoviePass subscribers now have access to Vutopia’s movie service on their PC and Mac computers and laptops across the cable operator’s entire footprint. The Vutopia service gives Time Warner Cable MoviePass customers instant access to hundreds of movies and trailers on either the set-top boxes in their homes or online anywhere in […]
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Cox, AT&T, T-Mobile among new spectrum swaps
Five wireless operators and one cable provider filed yesterday to swap various swaths of spectrum, reflecting larger moves within the industry to secure additional licenses for overburdened legacy networks and new LTE service. AT&T, U.S. Cellular, Cox Communications, Peoples Telephone Cooperative, T-Mobile USA and Cricket Communications all filed various applications with the FCC on Tuesday […]
SeaChange, Tellabs cue up OTT ad targeting demo at Cable Show
At next week’s Cable Show in Boston, SeaChange International and Tellabs will jointly demonstrate a new ad-targeting technology for over-the-top video that is based on Web browser activity. With the goal of monetizing ads that are inserted into over-the-top (OTT) streams, the companies will show ad insertion into live program streams on an iPad. SeaChange […]
Unity Telecom preparing another OTT challenger
Unity Telecom is preparing to roll out a hybrid TV service, based on Entone’s FusionTV platform, that Unity Telecom argues will entirely avoid retransmission regulations. The start-up plans to combine free-to-air (FTA) programming with Web-based services. The Web-based content is standard stuff; the issue is the broadcast channels. Other alternative services delivering broadcast TV through […]
Prusch: Clearwire TD-LTE a competitive must-have
Clearwire’s top executive made bold claims at an investor conference today when he said carriers who don’t sign up for its wholesale TD-LTE network will be at a competitive disadvantage to those who do decide to use the service. Operators using Clearwire’s still-un-built TD-LTE network to supplement their own mobile broadband service will “leapfrog other […]
Verizon: Data sharing will end ARPU metric
Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo today revealed more than had previously been released about the company’s plans to launch data sharing plans this summer. Such plans would allow users to connect multiple devices to one data plan. Shammo, speaking at J.P. Morgan’s investor conference, said that the move to shared data plans would push the […]
Yale team discovers unexpected source of diabetic neuropathy pain
Nearly half of all diabetics suffer from neuropathic pain, an intractable, agonizing and still mysterious companion of the disease. Now Yale researchers have identified an unexpected source of the pain and a potential target to alleviate it. A team of researchers from Yale and the West Haven Veterans Affairs Medical Center describes in the May […]
Cox, Verizon Wireless debut cross-promotion in Oklahoma
After previous deployments by Comcast and Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications is on the scoreboard now that it has rolled out its cross-promotional effort with Verizon Wireless in Oklahoma. Starting today, customers in the Oklahoma City and Tulsa vicinities can purchase packages of Cox video, Internet and voice services and Verizon Wireless smartphones and tablets […]
Verizon AWS deal opponents form alliance
Sprint, T-Mobile USA and a number of other groups have come together to put added pressure on the FCC as it reviews Verizon Wireless’ purchase of a nationwide block of AWS spectrum from four cable operators. The Alliance for Broadband Competition describes itself as “a collection of like-minded businesses, trade associations and public interest groups […]
Shaw Business inks deal with city of Winnipeg
Shaw business has signed a multi-year deal to provide the city of Winnipeg with data networking, Internet and Wi-Fi services. Shaw Business will improve the city’s network access and connectivity by providing a virtual private local area network service (VPLS). Shaw Business will create separate VPLS domain names for each of the city’s business units […]