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LR Cable News Analysis
Articles published in March 2008
Fog Lifting on RFOG
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
March 31, 2008 : SCTE launches standards effort for 'RF over Glass,' a new architecture that will enable cable MSOs to deploy FTTP in greenfields
Health Hype Update
Wireless Bits - Ray Le Maistre -
March 31, 2008 : Mobile is a killer app, reckons doctor
Telkom SA Spurns Oger
EuroBlog - Ray Le Maistre -
March 31, 2008 : South African telco rejects takeover offer
Virgin Media Set to Play Digital Baseball?
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner -
March 31, 2008 : System under consideration would give high-speed digital pirates 'three strikes' before service is shut down
Danes Play Music Card
EuroBlog - Ray Le Maistre -
March 31, 2008 : If you're Danish and connected, tunes are free
Turmoil at Thomson
EuroBlog - Ray Le Maistre -
March 31, 2008 : Sacré bleu! French vendor loses its chairman and CEO
KDDI Goes LTE
Wireless Bits - Michelle Donegan -
March 31, 2008 : Operator ready to leap to LTE, says report
Chinese 3G
Jonestown - Dan Jones -
March 28, 2008 : Still not a 100% this isn't an April Fools
RCN Calls Out Verizon
Raynman - Raymond McConville -
March 28, 2008 : Says it's playing smokescreen games
DBS Catches a Break
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner -
March 28, 2008 : But will the FCC show the same leniency toward small cable ops in front of the February 2009 digital transition?
Italian Access Face-Off
EuroBlog - Ray Le Maistre -
March 28, 2008 : T Italia and regulator break bread over access plans
Give It Away Now
The Philter - Phil Harvey -
March 27, 2008 : Another musician gets the Internet
Apples & Oranges
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner -
March 27, 2008 : Is it fair to compare cable's and Verizon's 'retention tactics'?
Real-World WiBro
Jonestown - Dan Jones -
March 27, 2008 : Wanna see how Sprint's WiMax might work in the real world?
FCC Chair to Comcast: Set a Date
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
March 27, 2008 : Agency Chairman Kevin Martin wants Comcast to commit to when it will end present P2P application management practices
Why Not WiMax?
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
March 27, 2008 : WiMax and cable's Docsis platform speak the same technical language in many respects
Wiretapping on Tap Next Week?
Raynman - Raymond McConville -
March 27, 2008 : The Senate will soon return to weigh in
Idiots for Life
The Philter - Phil Harvey -
March 27, 2008 : Charter makes itself and its customers look foolish
Comcast Caves In to P2P Pressure
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
March 27, 2008 : MSO agrees to move to a 'protocol agnostic' capacity management system and increase its upstream capacity in some markets
Germany's Mobile M&A
EuroBlog - Ray Le Maistre -
March 27, 2008 : There's talk of two mobile takeovers in Germany
Tit for Tat
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner -
March 26, 2008 : The rhetoric is flying fast and furious in the cable vs. Verizon volleys...
WiMax Dumbocracy
Jonestown - Dan Jones -
March 26, 2008 : Is anyone else sick of waiting for this turkey to drop?
FT's Content Play
EuroBlog - Ray Le Maistre -
March 26, 2008 : France Telecom firms up its content strategy
Kalifornia 2010
Valley Wonk - Craig Matsumoto -
March 26, 2008 : Could a techy replace The Governator?
Cisco & the Moto Split
The Philter - Phil Harvey -
March 26, 2008 : Cisco will pounce if Moto appears mixed up
Analyst: WiMax Might Scratch Cable's Wireless Itch
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
March 26, 2008 : A partnership with Sprint and Clearwire could give some major cable MSOs a strategic wireless play for 'a modest capital commitment'
Clearwire-Sprint Deal to Take Two Years?
Jonestown - Dan Jones -
March 26, 2008 : WiMax could be dead and buried by then...
Cable Rescues US WiMax?
Wireless Bits - Michelle Donegan -
March 26, 2008 : Report says cable companies are jumping in to save WiMax
Deadly Self-Install
The Philter - Phil Harvey -
March 25, 2008 : Handguns: They kill, but prevent costly truck rolls
Cellphone Tattoo!!!
Jonestown - Dan Jones -
March 25, 2008 : Bluetooth implants for all
CableCARD Update III
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner -
March 25, 2008 : 4.5 million and counting...
Screenagers in Love
Jonestown - Dan Jones -
March 25, 2008 : With social networking?
Clearleap Hops on $9M 'A' Round
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
March 25, 2008 : Former Time Warner Cable CTO takes a minority stake in Atlanta-based startup
High on High-Def
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner -
March 25, 2008 : Forecast says cable and satellite hi-def subscriptions will jump to 71 million by 2012, but HD network revenues will be playing catchup
A Qwest/VZ Marriage?
Raynman - Raymond McConville -
March 25, 2008 : Another recession inducing idea
Billions & Billions
BroadBananas - Michael Harris -
March 25, 2008 : Comcast's latest VOD milestone would make Carl Sagan proud...
Google Lobbies FCC Again
Wireless Bits - Michelle Donegan -
March 25, 2008 : Now it wants white spaces
Icahn Sues Moto
Jonestown - Dan Jones -
March 24, 2008 : Wants to see the firm's handset strategy documents
Déjà Vu
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner -
March 24, 2008 : Two more small cable ops obtain set-top waivers from the FCC, so long as they ― wait for it ― agree to go all-digital before Feb. 17, 2009
Cisco's Blog Disclaimer
Valley Wonk - Craig Matsumoto -
March 24, 2008 : A policy change in the Patent Troll aftermath
Where Is FiOS TV?
Raynman - Raymond McConville -
March 24, 2008 : NYC still waits
Ojo Still a Go-Go
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner -
March 24, 2008 : Cooler heads have prevailed in the spat between WorldGate and its largest customer, Snap!VRS
Dish to Serve Mobile Video?
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
March 24, 2008 : With wireless spectrum joining Dish Network's assets, the going bet is that the company will embark on a mobile video strategy
More Mobile TV Musing
The Philter - Phil Harvey -
March 24, 2008 : Don't lean back when you're on the move
The Great Cable Spectrum Speculation
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
March 24, 2008 : Spectrum won by Cox and other companies with ties to cable could set the stage for a market-targeted wireless network buildout
AT&T's Big Spend
Jonestown - Dan Jones -
March 21, 2008 : Ma Bell will make a $1.3B down payment for its 700 MHz spectrum soon
Slideshow: Docsis 3.0 Strategies
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner -
March 21, 2008 : Here are some snaps from the first-ever Light Reading Live event focused entirely on Docsis 3.0
Cable MSOs Preach Capacity Over Speed
LR Cable News Analysis - Raymond McConville -
March 21, 2008 : While cable plays catch up with Docsis 3.0, some MSO executives wonder what this whole fuss about speed is all about
Just One Thing
Jonestown - Dan Jones -
March 21, 2008 : On open access
Qwestroom Scandal
Red Panda -
March 21, 2008 : Telco has employees on a qwest for facilities
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