Elemental Technologies said Columbus Communications is using its Elemental Live products to power the encoding of content for the latter’s new multi-screen video services. Columbus Communications is a retail and wholesale telecommunications company in the Caribbean and in Latin America. The service provider will use Elemental Live to encode more than 250 linear broadcast channels […]
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Isis adds American Express to mobile wallet
Isis added more plastic to its mobile wallet yesterday when it signed up American Express to its contactless payment platform. Isis, a three-way mobile commerce joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, said American Express customers will be able to use its mobile wallet to make NFC payments after the service goes live […]
Mediacom adds more data subs to help offset video losses
Privately held Mediacom Communications released unaudited financial results for the first quarter, which included a boost in data subscribers that somewhat offset its basic video subscriber losses in the quarter. Mediacom reports its subscriber and revenue numbers under two subsidiaries: Mediacom LLC and Mediacom Broadband. Mediacom Broadband’s video subscribers went from 654,000 in the same […]
CenturyLink adds 89K broadband subs in Q1
CenturyLink added more than 89,000 high-speed Internet customers to end the first quarter of 2012 with 5.6 million subscribers. The company also added 15,000 subscribers to its Prism TV service – available in only eight of its markets – according to a transcript of CenturyLink’s analyst call provided by Seeking Alpha. That was an increase […]
Ericsson not ditching the ‘low end’
Ericsson plans to hold on to its services businesses, refuting recent predictions by rival Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) that infrastructure vendors will be forced to shed their “low-end” deals. Nokia Siemens executives told reporters this week that the “be-all” model of its larger competitors “can’t survive.” The money-losing company sold off a number of its […]
Research: Carrier Wi-Fi equipment market to hit $2.1B by 2016
Consumers’ seemingly insatiable desire for Wi-Fi connectivity is driving the carrier equipment market to double-digit growth that will culminate in a $2.1 billion worldwide market by 2016. A recent study by Infonetics Research also said that revenue for carrier Wi-Fi equipment, which included mobile Wi-Fi access points, Wi-Fi hotspot access points and Wi-Fi hotspot controllers, […]
Samsung, Qualcomm lead wireless power group
Samsung and Qualcomm are spearheading a new group aimed at advancing technology capable of charging consumer electronics without cords. Launched earlier this week at CTIA Wireless 2012, the Alliance for Wireless Power, or A4WP, will develop standards, certification programs and technical specifications for wireless power technology. The standard is still in development but is expected […]
Neustar expands into LBS
Neustar may be best known in the telecommunications industry because it enables the portability of phone numbers. But the company is now using the trust and neutrality it has built up over the years with operators to develop other business uses, among them its UltraViolet cloud computing service for distribution of digital rights-protected movies. But […]
Comcast lands a sweet Metro Ethernet deal with Sarris Candies
Comcast continues to rack up customer wins for its Metro Ethernet service, with the latest addition being Pennsylvania-based Sarris Candies. Sarris Candies, which is based in Canonsburg, Pa., is using Comcast Business Class Ethernet services to expedite the transfer of company data and improve its overall customer experience. The service remained intact during a February […]
Windstream making push in data business
Fast-growing Windstream plans to spend more than $1 billion this year as it moves from being a landline phone company to a broadband and data services provider. The Little Rock-based company, which has its shareholders meeting Wednesday, has been rapidly setting up data centers that provide computing power and storage for businesses around the country […]