Alcatel-Lucent moved to cash in on the booming intellectual property market today amid mixed fourth-quarter results, offering licenses to its 29,000 strong patent portfolio. The French infrastructure vendor formed a licensing syndicate with RPX Corp., which purchases and licenses patents that could be used against its clients, said to include Google and Intel. RPX customers […]
Telecommunications
Report: Apple to unveil new iPad in March
A news report says Apple plans to unveil a new iPad early next month. AllThingsD, a website affiliated with The Wall Street Journal, says Apple is holding an event in San Francisco the first week of March – the same week Apple announced the iPad 2 last year. The report cites unnamed people familiar with […]
More on Shaw’s network upgrades for Exo branding
After filing my story yesterday on Shaw Communications’ new Exo branding, Shaw CTO Dennis Steiger provided a few more details on the company’s engineering efforts that are behind Exo. Similar to Comcast’s Xfinity effort, Shaw Exo is a new brand that pulls together all of the company’s various services offerings under one roof as the […]
Delay sought in Verizon, cable AWS deal
DirecTV, T-Mobile USA and Sprint want the FCC to stop the clock on its review of Verizon Wireless’ $4 billion deal to buy a nationwide chunk of AWS spectrum from four cable companies. They want Verizon to disclose more information about a side deal with the cable operators to market and sell each other’s products. […]
Shaw’s engineering efforts pay off with launch of Exo
Shaw Communications launched its Shaw Exo brand this week, which was the end result of its network upgrades. Shaw Exo features high-definition signals in a higher, less compressed bit rate for improved quality and a larger selection of on-demand titles in full 1080p HD, along with fiber-based Internet speeds of up to 250 Mbps. The […]
Optimum Lightpath cooks up suite of services for local governments
Optimum Lightpath, a division of Cablevision, announced this morning the availability of a suite of services that was designed to meet the communications needs of local governments. Optimum Lightpath Government Services Suite helps counties, cities, townships and municipalities reduce their telecommunications costs by bundling Ethernet, telephony and Web conferencing services together. The suite includes services […]
AT&T, competitors spar over FCC legislation
AT&T and a number of its competitors have come out on opposite sides of the fence about provisions in a House bill that would strip the FCC of some of its authority to govern spectrum auctions. The CEOs of Atlantic Tele-Network, Bluegrass Cellular, C Spire Wireless, Cricket Communications, NorthwestCell, Sprint, T-Mobile USA and the Rural […]
Protesters deliver petitions to Apple retail stores
Protesters today bearing a petition of 250,000 signatures prepared to march on Apple retail stores in pursuit of a commitment by the iPhone maker to “clean up its supply chain.” Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, executive director of SumOfUs, reached by phone was at Apple’s Washington, D.C., Georgetown retail location this morning, preparing to deliver the petition to […]
BendBroadband joins TV Everywhere fray with Turner
In keeping with its legacy of being a cable innovator, BendBroadband launched its TV Everywhere service this week with video content available from Turner Broadcasting. While TV Everywhere has almost become table stakes for large cable operators – Time Warner-owned Turner and Comcast first hooked up on TV Everywhere in 2009 – BendBroadband President and […]
Sprint’s iPhone gamble widens losses
Sprint’s bet on the iPhone helped it bring in the highest number of new customers in six years during the fourth quarter, but the success came at a hefty price. The operator said Wednesday that its losses ballooned to $1.3 billion, from $929 million the previous year, after the substantial cost of subsidizing the iPhone […]