TELCO TV: Sexy, new video services include Wi-Fi set-top; but needs TV anchor, says AT&T
NEW ORLEANS – Although TV Everywhere plans and fancy-schmancy video applications may be all the rage in pay TV circles these days, they may all go for naught if they’re […]
TELCO TV: Network DVR coming from EchoStar, says exec
NEW ORLEANS – Following in the controversial footsteps of MSO Cablevision Systems, EchoStar is building a new network-based DVR for a major undisclosed customer believed to be Dish Network, a […]
Cable Show 2011: U.S. MSOs, broadcasters, don’t fear the Netflix
CHICAGO – If U.S. cable operators and programmers are deathly afraid of Netflix, they’re sure putting up a brave front. At last week’s Cable Show here, several top MSO and […]
Cable Show 2011: Cable is personalizing TV, moving away from “tyranny of set-top boxes”
CHICAGO—Going where no major MSO has gone before, Comcast intends to introduce a personalized, Internet-connected TV guide and content navigation service for its digital cable subscribers as part of its […]
Cable Show 2011: So far, so smooth for cable ISPs’ IPv6 testing
CHICAGO — Top cable operators, programmers, tech vendors and consumer electronics retailers are expressing great satisfaction and relief after last week’s global test of the Internet’s next-generation protocol, Internet Protocol […]
Cable Show 2011: Time Warner, Comcast, bury the platform hatchet
CHICAGO—Bid adieu to the dueling cable next-generation access networks from Comcast and Time Warner Cable. The two giant U.S. MSOs have decided to bury the hatchet and merge their two […]
CTS 2011: Rogers, Bell, Telus, “increasingly bloated,” need to be held back, says Wind’s Lacavera
TORONTO – Making a passionate case for greater government support of wireless competition, Globalive Group Chairman Anthony Lacavera lambasted the nation’s three incumbent mobile providers, called for a full set-aside […]
CTS 2011: More mobile spectrum needed, now
TORONTO – With the broadband market still growing briskly and shifting drastically in the direction of data and video applications, telecom service providers and equipment suppliers are scrambling desperately to […]
CTS 2011: Commission expects speed goals to be exceeded
TORONTO—CRTC Chairman Konrad von Finckenstein defended the Commission’s broadband speed targets, consumer complaint resolution process, planned vertical integration hearings and other moves in a 40-minute public fireside chat Wednesday morning. […]
CTS 2011: Videotron has its own spectrum auction cap plan
TORONTO – Robert Dépatie doesn’t exactly see eye-to-eye with Rob Bruce. A day after Bruce, the president of the cable and wireless arm of Rogers Communications, called for no restrictions […]