Tag: broadband
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Viodi View – 01/04/13
With the holidays now behind us, it is time for International CES and for retailers to begin planning for the 2013 holiday season. And next week’s CES promises to provide an entertaining look at what will be hot. Based on the announcements thus far, it looks like there will be no end to the advancements…
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Are Huawei & ZTE Fading Superstars? New Investments Seen Mostly as a Publicity Ploy!
For several years now, China’s Huawei and ZTE had very strong growth rates and became major players in the telecom equipment market. Both companies also make low cost mobile phones that are popular all over the world (yes, they are sold in the U.S.). But their growth seems to be slowing and ZTE actually had…
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Infonetics: Mobile Infrastructure Market DOWN in Quarter & Year Except for LTE-Growth in 2013; Small Cells not so hot!
Overview: With the continued exponential growth in mobile data traffic, one would expect a substantial increase in sales of mobile (2G/3G/4G) network infrastructure equipment. Not so, according to Infonetics Research, which released excerpts from its 3rd quarter 2012 (3Q12) 2G, 3G, 4G (LTE and WiMAX) Infrastructure and Subscribers market share and forecasts report, which tracks 2G,…
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Viodi View – 11/29/2012
Yesterday’s news about the progress Chicago is making in its bid to entice private entities to build out a fiber network, reminded me of an interview we did with Joey Durel, Lafayette, LA City/Parish President, regarding their municipal fiber project. It also took me back to a presentation that Durel gave at the 2005 FTTH…
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AT&T to Expand U-Verse & IP-DSLAM; Bring Fiber to Commercial Buildings & Cover 99% of US with LTE!
In the most significant announcement since SBC acquired the old AT&T and became “the new” AT&T, the telco giant announced it will spend $14B over the next three years to expand its wireline and wireless networks under its newly coined “Project Velocity” initiative. The company wants to move to an all IP network platform, which means they’ll be…