The FCC is looking to ensure an end to wireless bill shock with today’s announcement of a new website that will track the carriers’ progress in preventing unexpected charges at the end of the month. The initiative comes as a result of a deal reached back in October 2011 between carriers and the FCC, wherein […]
Telecommunications
Windstream opens new data center in Little Rock
Windstream on Thursday formally opened its new Little Rock data center, a facility the company will use to sell business services to customers in the area and across the country. Little Rock-based Windstream has more than 20 of the centers around the nation, and they illustrate the company’s aggressive push in marketing cloud computing and […]
LightSquared pays Inmarsat bill, suspends spectrum deal
LightSquared has put the brakes on a deal that gave it additional spectrum for its stalled wireless network, which is mired by problems with GPS interference. The company said today it will suspend the second phase of its arrangement with U.K. satellite provider Inmarsat until March 31, 2014. LightSquared will not have to make any […]
Cablevision connects more viewers with Optimum App for Macs, PCs
Cablevision’s march to push content to more multi-screens continued with today’s release of its Optimum App for Laptop. Optimum App for Laptop lets Cablevision customers watch all of the channels they subscribe to live on any Mac or PC laptop computer in their homes. The laptop version of the Optimum App followed on the heels […]
Verizon holds steady, adding 180K FiOS TV subs
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 […]
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 […]