Tag: broadband
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FCC Plans for Incentive Auctions to Shake Up Broadcast TV & Mobile Broadband industries
On Friday, September 28, 2012, the FCC officially announced its long talked about “incentive auction process,” which will reclaim airwaves (AKA spectrum) now owned by TV broadcasters and auction them off for use in wireless broadband networks. This concept was first introduced in the National Broadband Plan over two years ago, but no specific plan had been…
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Summary of Telecom Council TC3, Part 1- Service Provider Innovation Forum
Introduction: Telecom Council Carrier Connections (TC3) – the Telecom Council’s annual summit- was held Sept 12-13, 2012 in Sunnyvale, CA. The event provides an opportunity for startups and application developers to interact with telecom carriers (telcos) and network operators. Telco representatives who manage innovation, from developer programs and labs facilities to venture investing, discussed many…
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Viodi View – 09/21/12
Words are great, pictures are better, video is best, but none of these can compare to being there. Experiencing the rural roads of this great country – the ones off the beaten path of the Interstate – and meeting the people who are finding creative ways to keep their communities vibrant has been one of…
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Does Broadband Lead to a Broad Waist?
In late August, the Milken Institute issued a provocative study, Waistlines of the World – The Effect of Information and Communications Technology on Obesity. This report looked at 27 OECD countries between the period of 1988-2009 and the impact of knowledge-based society on obesity rates in those countries. The growth of these rates are a…
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Viodi View – 08/24/12
Same stuff, different day is the cleaned up song title that comes to mind when reviewing some of our recent interviews with folks who bring a bit of an international flavor to this issue of the Viodi View. Whether it is access to content on terms that are comparable to what can be had by…
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Telecom Death Spiral Continues with ZTE’s Steep Profit Drop
Sluggish telecom operator infrastructure spending, mobile device price wars and roadblocks in several western markets have all combined to cause China’s ZTE to report an 85% drop in profits (year over year) in the latest quarter that ended in June. Net earnings for the first half dropped 68 per cent to Rmb245m, in line with a warning issued last…