Eagle Broadband‘s ClearWorks Communications unit landed a $40 million contract to provide fiber-to-the-home technology and bundled digital services to Stone Gate Canyon Lakes, a 352-acre master-planned community near Houston. Eagle says revenues should reach $40 million over 25 years. …
Substantial Internet VOD won’t roll out in the United States until 2005, a GartnerG2 study says. Even then, only 2 percent of movie distribution revenue will come from the service. On the upside, 10 percent of the 106 million U.S. homes have broadband access, it adds. GartnerG2 is a unit of Gartner Inc.…
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers has scheduled its Broadband Knowledge Summit from May 7 to May 9 in New Orleans, La. The summit will will be held in conjunction with National Cable & Telecommunications Association‘s Cable 2002 confab. …
Tele-Servicing Innovations Inc. will be a preferred vendor of Starz! Encore, via a master service agreement in 2002, it says. TSI says it will rollout the company’s SVOD products in selected markets. Home Box Office also uses TSI’s service. …
Cedar Point Communications appointed Tom Jokerst, Charter Communications Inc.‘s senior VP of advanced technology, to its board. …
Velocita Corp. lit up another route of its national network — the third such lighting in three months. The 280-mile route provides service via points of presence in Dallas and Tulsa. The company activated a Houston-to-Orlando route in November and a Tulsa-Kansas City-St. Louis segment in December. …
Robert Crandall was named a senior advisor to AirTV, hich is developing an aircraft broadband network powered by four high-capacity S-band satellites for real-time TV, audio, Internet, e-mail and flight information. …