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Will Satellite Get Caught in VZ's LTE Crossfire?

March 06, 2012 | Jeff Baumgartner |

Here's a look at what's pushing cable's buttons this morning.

  • Satellite broadband could end up being one of the big competitive targets for HomeFusion Broadband, Verizon Communications Inc.'s new residential service that will deliver high-speed Internet connections over Long Term Evolution (LTE) and concentrate on areas that lack access to DSL and cable modem services. That's pretty much the market being pursued by EchoStar Corp. LLC's HughesNet and ViaSat Inc., which has recently introduced Exede, a new service that's matching a 12Mbit/s downstream with a 3Mbit/s upstream. (See Verizon Takes LTE to Rural Homes, ViaSat to Phase Out WildBlue and DirecTV Cuts WildBlue From Its Broadband Future .)

  • New York's Cablevision Systems Corp. says its interactive ad platform has delivered nearly 4 billion impressions via more than 900 campaigns with 600-plus advertisers. The results seem to demonstrate that that local interactive advertising continues to gain steam as Canoe Ventures LLC, a cross-MSO advanced ad J.V., shuts down a national interactive ad effort to instead focus on dynamic video-on-demand (VoD) ad insertion. (See Cable's Canoe Sinks Interactive Ad Business .)

  • Carlos Slim's América Móvil S.A. de C.V. is mulling a Netflix Inc.-style streaming video service for Mexico, but is holding off until the company receives regulatory clearance, Bloomberg reports. América Móvil currently is banned from using its landline network to deliver TV services in Mexico, but does offer streaming video services in Argentina and Uruguay.

  • Alticast Corp. has introduced Windmill, an interactive TV "ecosystem" for pay-TV operators that integrates the company's altiPlatform middleware core, user interface, and conditional access system and digital rights management products.

  • itaas Inc. has approved iCueTV Inc.'s apps for iLaunch, a program that pre-tests the deployment of interactive services based on cable's Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF) platform. icueTV has developed reusable EBIF-compliant app templates that, among other things, let consumers buy products using their remote controls.

    — Jeff Baumgartner, Site Editor, Light Reading Cable



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