The latest markets in which Comcast has launched its new Xfinity Home service include the company’s Pittsburgh service area and its markets in Santa Barbara County. The introduction of the service in Ballard, Buellton, Lompoc, Los Olivos, Orcutt, Santa Maria, Santa Ynez, Solvang and Vandenberg Village in Santa Barbara County completes the rollout of Xfinity […]
Telecommunications
Dish chairman pushes FCC chiefs on spectrum rules
Dish Network Chairman and former CEO Charlie Ergen held a series of high-level meetings with FCC officials this week urging the agency to allow it to use 40 MHz of satellite spectrum for cellular services. Ergen and four other Dish Network executives on Tuesday met with all of the FCC’s commissioners, the head of the […]
T-Mobile readies 1900 MHz HSPA+ test network at Moscone
T-Mobile USA is testing an HSPA+ network on its 1900 MHz PCS spectrum at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, where Apple will hold its World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) next week. In a statement, T-Mobile said the test network was deployed as part of a routine network upgrade inside Moscone Cente,r and timing ahead of Apple’s […]
Facebook rolling out central location for apps
There’s more to Facebook apps than “Angry Birds” and Pinterest, but many users wouldn’t know that because there hasn’t been a good, central way to find them. Facebook is trying to change that. Starting yesterday, Facebook is beginning to roll out its App Center to its nearly 1 billion users so they can find games […]
Comcast’s Xfinity Home App now available on Android devices
Comcast customers that use its Xfinity Home service can now control their systems remotely via selected Android devices with the company’s Xfinity Home app. Similar to Comcast’s Xfinity Home iPhone app, the Android version allows Comcast’s home automation customers to arm or disarm their alarm systems, control their home lighting remotely and adjust thermostat settings. […]
Sprint pulls online iDEN sales; retail to follow
Sprint is no longer selling iDEN phones on its website and will phase the devices out of stores this month, a spokesman for the company has confirmed. The move comes one week after the operator set a June 2013 hard stop for its iDEN network, which is being replaced by its Direct Connect CDMA-based push-to-talk […]
Citrix aims at mobile ops with Bytemobile buy
Citrix has acquired mobile video optimization provider Bytemobile. The deal is designed to give Citrix access to Bytemobile’s potentially lucrative customer base of 130 mobile operators in 60 countries. Bytemobile provides carriers with equipment and services to help them reduce the impact of data-intensive traffic, mainly video, on networks. Citrix, which specializes in enterprise mobility […]
Verizon argues against PCS fix for LTE traffic
Verizon Wireless said re-farming its PCS spectrum won’t give it the capacity it needs to handle rising traffic on its LTE network, its latest argument to bolster the case for its purchase of nationwide AWS spectrum licenses from four cable operators. Verizon is working to convince the FCC to approve the transaction. Verizon’s competitors T-Mobile […]
Cox survey: Parents doing better job of monitoring Internet safety
According to a recent survey by Cox Communications and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), parents are doing a better job of monitoring their children’s online behavior on home computers, but there needs to be improvement to keep kids safer when they use mobile and other connected devices. The survey focused on […]
Comcast Media Center, In Demand provision new Pac-12 Networks
The Comcast Media Center (CMC) and In Demand have been picked by Pac-12 Enterprises to work together to provision a broad range of technical distribution services for the Pac-12 Networks, the new collection of college sports networks that is slated to launch in August. The Pac-12 Networks were announced in July of last year by […]