While Android may be gaining market share hand over fist, Apple’s iOS remains the top revenue-generating operating system for developers in 2011, according to Distimo’s year-end report. Both the Apple App Store for iPad and the Apple App Store for iPhone still beat the Google Android Market in terms of the total revenue generated by […]
Telecommunications
AT&T drops $39B T-Mobile bid; ‘duopoly’ averted
AT&T is hanging up on its $39 billion bid to buy smaller wireless provider T-Mobile USA, nearly four months after the U.S. government raised concerns that the deal would raise prices, reduce innovation and give customers fewer choices. The long-expected announcement left AT&T grumbling about a shortage of airwaves to meet growing demand, while scrappy […]
TV channel squeeze proposed to pay for tax cuts
Call it the Great Channel Squeeze. Congress is considering letting cell phone companies pay television stations to give up their frequencies so they can be put to better use for wireless broadband. The idea is to squeeze over-the-air television, which has few viewers, into a smaller slice of the airwaves. The government would be the broker […]
Optimum Lightpath lights up 5K NYC metro-area buildings
Cablevision’s Optimum Lightpath announced today that its fiber-based service has connected more than 5,000 buildings in the New York metropolitan area that it serves. To better serve mid-market and enterprise businesses in the area, Optimum Lightpath has been building out its fiber-optic network, which now spans 4,700 route miles. “With one of the largest contiguous […]
WhiteSpace Alliance forms with eye on international markets
A new international trade association has formed, aimed at developing unused broadcast TV spectrum (white spaces) for use in new wireless broadband services. The members of the WhiteSpace Alliance are AmeriSys, BAE Systems, ETRI, NICT and Relay Services. The alliance is backing use of the new IEEE 802.22 standard, which defines a means of delivering […]
Don’t cut that fiber just yet
Verizon Wireless’ LTE network is currently available in 190 markets, covering more than 200 million people across the United States. Verizon boasts LTE download speeds of 5 to 12 Mbps and upload speeds of 2 to 5 Mbps. That’s better than, or in line with, some fixed-line connections. So will end users opt to cut […]
Videotron targets rural Québec for wireless data offering
In partnership with Industry Canada’s Broadband Canada program, Videotron is offering its wireless Internet service in remote areas of Québec that were previously without data services. Using its 4G mobile network, Videotron has expanded its reach into the following regions: Beauce-Lower St. Lawrence, Victoriaville-Drummondville, Montérégie-Eastern Townships, Laurentians-Mont-Laurier, Lac-Saint-Jean and the North Shore. Videotron Wireless Internet […]
British Telecom files patent suit against Google
British Telecom (BT) has filed allegations of patent infringement against Google with a district court in Delaware. According to the complaint, BT alleges that Google infringes six of the carrier’s patents. BT currently boasts a patent portfolio of more than 10,000 patents. Google could not be reached for comment prior to press time. Among other […]
Trilithic promotes 3 execs in Broadband Instruments group
Trilithic promoted three executives at the end of last week, including Daniel Dillon, who was named director of product marketing for mobile systems applications within the company’s Broadband Instruments Division. In his new role, Dillon is responsible for the product development and marketing of all mobile devices and software for the Broadband Instruments group. Dillon […]
Cox sells AWS spectrum to Verizon; they agree to sell each other’s services
The other shoe just dropped now that Cox Communications announced this morning that it is selling its 20 MHz Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) licenses to Verizon Wireless for $315 million. Cox’s licenses cover 28 million points of presence (POP). The agreement doesn’t cover Cox’s 700 MHz spectrum licenses. “These agreements provide Cox customers with key […]