Former Cox Communications chief technology officer Scott Hatfield has landed a new gig as CTO for mobile services vendor Syniverse. Hatfield abruptly resigned as Cox’s CTO and executive vice president last year after a 15-year stint at the nation’s third-largest cable operator. At the time, Cox said it was a mutual decision between the company […]
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Cass Cable TV picks Adara for SDV upgrade
Cass Cable TV, a triple-play service provider that serves central Illinois, has opted to use Adara Technologies’ hosted switched digital video platform for its network upgrade. By using SDV, Cass Cable TV will be able to offer its 16,000 subscribers more HD channels, a new user interface (UI) and IPTV applications. The full-lineup SDV network […]
AT&T rolls out free VoIP app
Remember when apps like Skype were blocked? That was more than two years ago, and at the time, some speculated the reason for blocking was due in part to carriers’ desires to offer their own branded VoIP apps rather than make it easier for competitors. Yesterday, AT&T introduced AT&T Call International, a free mobile VoIP […]
Report: Telecom capex up nearly 6%
AT&T is doing its part to contribute to the total carrier capex in 2011. Infonetics Research says the nearly 6 percent increase in global telecom carrier capex it expects in 2011 over 2010 is due in large part to AT&T’s ramping LTE deployments, HSPA+ upgrades and investments in Wi-Fi hotspots for traffic offload. That offsets […]
Africa is fastest-growing mobile market
Africa is the world’s fastest-growing mobile phone market and is soon poised to have 735 million people using their phones for everything from transferring money to tracking animals for wildlife studies, an industry group said Wednesday. Mobile penetration in Africa is now second only to Asia, according to the report by the industry group GSMA, […]
Adobe kills Flash Player, heralds HTML5 era
Amid layoffs and a reorganization around digital content, Adobe today confirmed via a post on its company blog that the Adobe Flash Player for mobile devices is going the way of the dinosaur, in deference of HTML5. “HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively,” wrote Danny Winokur, vice president […]
Knology adds video subs in Q3, mulls usage-based data billing
Knology’s aggressive approach for adding revenue-generating units (RGUs) paid off in the third quarter, as the cable operator bucked the trend of its bigger cable brethren by actually adding video customers in the quarter. West Point, Ga.-based Knology added 11,972 voice, video and data connections in the third quarter, which excluded the 11,301 connections that […]
Ericsson forecasts 10-fold data traffic increase by 2016
In its latest Traffic and Market Data report, Ericsson forecasts a 10-fold increase in mobile data traffic by 2016. The report is based on measurements the company recorded over several years in live networks covering all regions of the world. According to the report, mobile broadband subscriptions will reach almost 5 billion in 2016, up […]
PCIA urges Congress to streamline zoning regulations
PCIA, the Wireless Infrastructure Association, along with a number of other agencies and groups, sent an open letter to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction asking the committee to ensure “the streamlined deployment of wireless facilities as part of any spectrum policy recommendations” that might be adopted as the committee seeks to reduce the […]
Coalition files with FCC to block LightSquared spectrum use
In a filing with the FCC, the Coalition to Save Our GPS today called on the Commission to “promptly rule” that LightSquared can never use the upper mobile satellite spectrum (MSS) band for high-powered terrestrial operations. The coalition argues in the filing that such use of the upper band “should be taken off the table […]