One company that’s happy about inter-carrier compensation reforms detailed in the FCC’s recent Connect America Fund order (FCC adopts Universal Service and inter-carrier compensation reform order) is Neutral Tandem. (more…)
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Verizon and Cablevision settle video advertising dispute–at least for now
Verizon and Cablevision have settled a lawsuit about claims made in Verizon FiOS ads, Bloomberg reported yesterday. (more…)
HFC network operators offer high-value freebies to current customers
Verizon’s deal to market cable company services, announced within days of a Verizon exec’s revelation that the company foresees an end to its FiOS buildout (CP: Verizon’s McAdam says video key to LTE and smartphone adoption), has caused some industry watchers to tout the superiority of cable company hybrid-fiber coax networks. The investment to support FiOS is too high, the thinking goes, and DSL doesn’t support enough bandwidth. But HFC, supporters say, offers the right balance of cost and bandwidth. (more…)
Hot development area: TV antennas (no joke)
It seems like everyone is pursuing opportunities involving TV broadcast spectrum. White space database administrators like Spectrum Bridge are putting the finishing touches on technology to enable the use of SuperWiFi and other emerging broadband apps in areas where broadcasters aren’t using the spectrum (CP: FCC frees up TV white spaces). Meanwhile, the FCC and now the House of Representatives are looking to free up some of the same spectrum for mobile broadband use through voluntary incentive auctions. (more…)
North State Communications’ plan to purchase DataChambers continues a trend
As non-rural Independent telcos, North State Communications and WVT Communications Group have a common bond. And today they gained another commonality. (more…)
Verizon defends itself against Cablevision false advertising claims
Verizon is aggressively defending itself in response to false advertising allegations made last week by Cablevision. The cable company last week filed a lawsuit in a federal court seeking an end to a Verizon campaign critical of Cablevision’s high-speed Internet services. (more…)
FCC lays out CALM Act enforcement plans
In an era of deep political divisions, there is one thing virtually all Americans can agree on: TV commercials are too loud. (more…)
Gig U sees positive responses to ultra-high-speed network RFI
The Gig U project said late last week that it has received “dozens of favorable responses” to its request for information (RFI) seeking approaches for accelerating the deployment of ultra-high-speed networks to university communities around the country. (more…)
TDG: What type of TV viewer are you?
Some readers may have grown weary of seemingly weekly research announcing either that a) over-the-top video is an enormous game changer, paradigm shifter, market disrupter, etc. or that b) the OTT threat is overblown. This week, however, The Diffusion Group offered a new twist. (more…)
Washington D.C. gains 100 Gb/s network—in the middle mile, that is
The District of Columbia has turned up the first link of a 100 Gb/s network that is expected to connect every ward in the city by June 2013. Network construction was funded through a $17.5 million broadband stimulus grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. (more…)