Cable industry veteran Kimberly Edmunds has moved on from a 15-year career at Cox Communications to become senior vice president of customer care for Comcast Cable. In her new job, Edmunds is now responsible for all care strategies and operations in support of more than 17 million combined video, data and phone customers throughout the […]
Telecommunications
Report: Operators lose big on social messaging
New estimates from research firm Ovum indicate that consumers’ increasing use of IP-based social messaging services on their smartphones cost telecom operators $8.7 billion globally in lost SMS revenues in 2010 and $13.9 billion in 2011. Ovum expects the decline, which represents 6 percent of total messaging revenue in 2010 and 9 percent in 2011, […]
BendBroadband adds HBO Go, Max Go to TV Everywhere mix
BendBroadband has beefed up its recently launched TV Everywhere service with the addition of HBO Go and Max Go. The HBO and Cinemax authenticated video content was announced this morning, which follows on the heels of the Bend, Ore., cable operator first launching the service earlier this month with video content from Turner Broadcasting. “BendBroadband […]
AT&T pressures FCC on Dish build-out
AT&T continues to pressure the FCC to force Dish into rapid build-out requirements for its planned mobile broadband network, requirements that the satellite provider has resisted. The wireless operator filed a document on Friday pushing the agency to require “prompt network construction, along the lines of the LightSquared build-out requirements.” “There is no reason for […]
Ericsson boosts hetnet offering with BelAir acquisition
Ericsson is buying Canadian Wi-Fi specialist BelAir Networks as part of a move to develop telecommunications equipment that integrates both Wi-Fi and cellular technologies. Wi-Fi offload has become an increasingly important tool to move network-clogging data traffic off of an operator’s cellular connections onto Wi-Fi hotspots. “Ericsson will lead the way in the growing converged […]
Cass Cable TV migrates to hosted digital TV
Cass Cable TV has entirely replaced its MPEG-2 service with Avail-TVN’s hosted MPEG-4 video service, including SD and HD channels. Cass Cable TV offers cable, Internet and telephone services to 35 communities, including rural areas, in west-central Illinois. “We wanted a way to deliver a superior television experience to our subscribers while increasing efficiency and […]
YouTube enlists big-name help to redefine channels
YouTube is enlisting Hollywood’s help to reach a generation of viewers more familiar with smartphones than TV remotes. The online video giant is aiming to create 25 hours of programming per day with the help of some of the top names in traditional TV. The Google-owned site is spreading its wealth among producers, directors and […]
LightSquared misses $56M Inmarsat payment
LightSquared, still reeling from the FCC’s decision to block its wireless network, has withheld a $56.25 million payment to Inmarsat for use of the London-based company’s L-band satellite spectrum. Inmarsat handed LightSquared a default notice yesterday, giving it 60 days to remedy the missed payment, it said. In a separate comment, LightSquared said there are […]
Youth shaping future of online TV, movies, music
Young people want their music, TV and movies now – even if it means they get these things illegally. A recent Columbia University survey found, in fact, that 70 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds said they had bought, copied or downloaded unauthorized music, TV shows or movies, compared with 46 percent of all adults who’d […]
Cable might cut ties with Clearwire
Clearwire, which runs a wireless data network used mainly by Sprint customers, says it may need to raise more money because it doesn’t know how much revenue it will be able to pull in from a fourth-generation mobile broadband network that it’s building, and from its existing mobile WiMAX Internet network after 2013. The company […]