Comcast Business Services’ deployment of its metro Ethernet service to a school district in Illinois is a textbook example of how it can deliver cloud-based services while also cutting the bottom line through virtualization. Comcast Business Services announced today that Township High School District 214, which is the second-largest high school district in Illinois, is […]
Telecommunications
Sprint shares down; Clearwire’s up
Sprint Nextel managed to achieve its best total company wireless net subscriber additions in five years, yet its shares were trading down more than 6 percent at one point this morning after it reported third-quarter results. Clearwire shares, on the other hand, were up more than 22 percent after Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said Sprint […]
Spectrum have-not MetroPCS: Making it work
MetroPCS has the least spectrum of the top five operators in the country, by a wide margin. “We are the neediest of the top five operators in the country,” said Ed Chao, senior vice president of engineering and network operations of MetroPCS, during an interview at 4G World. But despite this, MetroPCS has figured out […]
Cisco serves up wireless boxes to AT&T
Cisco is laying claim to an industry first with its new wireless IPTV receiver, which AT&T will offer across its entire footprint on Monday. Cisco’s ISB7005 wireless receiver allows U-verse subscribers to send standard-definition and high-definition programming around a home via 802.11n Wi-Fi. The system also features Cisco’s VEN401 Wireless Access Point, which, along with […]
Cablevision rings up click-to-call from Web browsers
Cablevision voice customers now can dial-up phone numbers from their Web browsers with once click of a mouse with the company’s new Optimum Voice Click-to-Call feature. Click-to-Call, which is free for Optimum Voice subscribers, lets users make phone calls from any website via a browser and Internet connection. The service is managed from the Optimum […]
Sprint plans 2013 LTE Advanced launch
What will Sprint do with the 800 MHz spectrum left over after it phases out its iDEN network? It will deploy LTE, but not just any flavor of the mobile broadband technology. Sprint said today it will use the airwaves to launch LTE Advanced in the first half of 2013. LTE Advanced, a faster version […]
4G: Good timing for consumers
4G is going mass market, and it couldn’t be at a more opportune time, according to a new Yankee Group report, “4G creates opportunity for all ecosystem players.” By timing, the research firm (we presume) doesn’t mean it’s opportune because we’re here at the Yankee Group’s 4G World conference. Rather, it’s good timing because to […]
C Spire ramps expansion for LTE prep
C Spire Wireless is pouring an additional $10 million into its network to harden its CDMA infrastructure ahead of its planned LTE launch. The cash will be used to expand C Spire’s CDMA EVDO coverage in 61 cities and 65 counties. The investment comes on top of the $90 million network expansion the company announced […]
Fibertech Networks picks Ciena to provision backhaul network
Fibertech Networks has teamed up with Ciena for the build-out of a mobile backhaul network for an unnamed wireless service provider in Connecticut. Fibertech is building fiber-based 10 Gbps backhaul connections to 250 cell towers to meet demand for 4G mobile broadband services. The new network will allow the service provider to deliver high-bandwidth applications, […]
AT&T Wi-Fi access triples in Q3
Following on the heels of last week’s Q3 earnings, AT&T today announced that it has nearly tripled its Wi-Fi connections. The company said that users made 301.9 million Wi-Fi connections in the third quarter, more than 37 connections every second. That’s three times as many, up more than 282 percent, versus connections made in the […]
