Verizon added 193,000 FiOS Internet and 180,000 FiOS video net additions in its first quarter. Minus cancellations of mostly DSL customers, Verizon reported an overall net increase of 104,000 broadband connections from Q4 2011. All of those results were very close to what Verizon reported in its immediately preceding fourth quarter. The company said it […]
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Cox invests in cell tower company
Cox Enterprises (and subsidiary Cox Communications) said it has invested in InSite Wireless Group, a company that owns, operates and manages wireless communication tower site facilities and distributed antenna systems (DAS) across the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The deal wraps one of the last remaining details of Cox’s failed attempt […]
Google CEO Page gets grilled in Oracle trial
Google CEO Larry Page spent nearly an hour in a federal courtroom Wednesday deflecting questions about his role in a copyright dispute over some of the technology in his company’s Android software for smartphones. The taciturn Page often looked uncomfortable on the witness stand as he sparred with David Boies, a tenacious lawyer who made […]
Hiawatha Broadband experiments with Amino hybrid box
Hiawatha Broadband Communications (HBC) is trying out Amino’s Freedom Jump over-the-top (OTT) media center, the box vendor said. Working with platform partner aioTv, Amino’s Freedom Jump provides blended access to HBC’s traditional video services and additional OTT content, such as movie-on-demand services, catch-up TV, Internet music services and social networking alongside traditional broadcast entertainment. HBC’s […]
Qualcomm’s Q2 income more than doubles
Mobile phone chipmaker Qualcomm said Wednesday that its fiscal second-quarter profit more than doubled as strong demand for smartphones boosted its sales; its revenue and adjusted profit beat Wall Street’s expectations. But the company said it expects its costs to increase as it makes more chips, and it predicted third-quarter and full-year earnings below the […]
Cox slams Sprint with patent countersuit
Cox Communications is suing former business partner Sprint for patent infringement, a countersuit aimed at deflating a patent suit Sprint filed against Cox and three other companies last December. The cable company claimed in a complaint filed in a Delaware district court on Monday that Sprint had violated two of its patents related to encoding […]
Time Warner Cable streaming live to some Android devices
Time Warner Cable has followed through on its promise to deliver live streaming video content to Android-based smartphones and tablets, but the catch is that those devices need to be running the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. TWC TV 2.0, which is now available on Google Play, lets Time Warner Cable subscribers watch live cable […]
Verizon to sell A-block, B-block spectrum licenses
Verizon Wireless today announced plans to sell off its 700 MHz A-block and B-block spectrum licenses but said it’s all contingent on approval of its bid to purchase AWS licenses from the likes of SpectrumCo, Cox Communications and Leap Wireless, which is currently under close scrutiny by regulators. The carrier said the licenses cover dozens of […]
FCC moves on rules benefitting Dish wireless plans
The FCC brought Dish Network’s wireless plans one step closer to advancing this week when it set deadlines for comments on a plan for flexible use of the 2 GHz satellite band, a proposal that could ultimately allow Dish to launch its LTE network. The FCC passed the proposal at its March 21 open meeting, and […]
Dyyno blows down cost barrier for TV Everywhere
Dyyno today introduced a cloud-based system designed to help service providers start offering TV Everywhere in a few short weeks. There are a growing number of companies with a cloud-based approach to TV Everywhere services, but Dyyno appears to have a rare, if not unique, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) approach. The system uses common off-the-shelf quad-core […]