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5/21/2012  -  Comcast, Bright House, Cablevision, Cox and TW Cable will let their high-speed Internet customers access more than 50,000 Wi-Fi hotspots
Sarah Reedy
Sarah Reedy
Mobile Money: What's the End Game?
5/21/2012  -  6:45 AM Wireless operators have partnered up on mobile payments, but it may only be a stopgap until they're ready to tackle the market on their own
Most Recent Post: SReedy... There is a difference between digital and physical purchases. Carrier billing makes sense for app purchases and maybe other...
5/21/2012  -  Vendor hopes to gain some ground on cable access competitors with its first integrated product for the embryonic CCAP market
5/18/2012  -  Moto extends the life of its CMTS as it continues to develop products for CCAP, cable's next-gen access architecture
5/18/2012  -  TV Everywhere, net neutrality and wireless will be hot topics, but also expect cable's access network to make some big leaps next week
Most Recent Post: Jeff Baumgartner... Cisco wanted to clarify the comments it made regarding this notion of a Docsis 3.x project:  “CableLabs is,...
5/18/2012  -  Also: Cablevision promotes Kanouff; BlackArrow goes system-wide at TW Cable; Arris gateway software weaves in HTML5
Newswire Feed
PORTLAND, OR: Elemental Streams to Many Screens - 5/21/2012
NEW YORK: TW Cable Unsheathes BlackArrow - 5/18/2012
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ANALYST NOTES
Graham Finnie, Chief Analyst
The future for telcos lies in leveraging context about their customers, but getting from concept to execution is no simple affair
Pyramid Points
Emily Smith (Analyst)
The new iPad will solidify the status of Apple products in Asia-Pacific markets.
LR Cable Opinion
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Multi-Screen Mania Poses New Challenges
5/10/2012  -  Cable operators are rushing to push content and services to a wide range of consumer devices, including iPads and smartphones
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Alan Breznick
Monetizing Multi-Screen Mania
Alan Breznick
4/20/2011  -  The momentum behind multi-screen video is building, especially on the iPad, but how can cable operators cash in?
Most Recent Post: pmicali1... I thought that a lot of the arguments brought up in this post were very valid and well thought out.  While I'd argue...
Jeff Baumgartner
Why Is Sling Getting a Free Pass?
Jeff Baumgartner
3/25/2011  -  ...when programmers are chirping about Time Warner Cable's new iPad app, which limits streaming of live TV to a customer's home
Most Recent Post: gconnery... I think media companies want a monthly fee, not a couple of bucks from the $30 purchase price for the iPad app.
Free Cable Reports
The Cable Show 2011: New Product Recap
Tim Hills
Here's a handy guide to some of the product announcements from The Cable Show 2011
Tru2way: Epic Fail at Retail
Jeff Baumgartner
Tru2way seemed a cable industry & consumer electronics retail force at its International CES debut in 2008. Here's how it flopped
The Cable Show 2010: New Product Recap
Tim Hills
Here's a handy guide to some of the more significant product announcements from The Cable Show 2010
Slideshows
Research Services
REAL WORLD RESEARCH
IP Network & Service Migration: Benchmarking Telco Progress
This report presents the Carrier IP Migration Index (CIMIX), a leading-edge technology- and vendor-agnostic market model used to measure an network operator's readiness for all-IP network and service platforms. The report also presents the results of a major network operators survey, ranking the importance of each indicator in our index.
Cable's Tablet Habit Will Lead to a Management Headache
This report explores cable operators' interest in multi-screen IP video and the requirements for comprehensive management solutions that can help them provide customers with a convenient, consistent user experience. The report analyzes multi-screen management solutions from 16 companies that address management requirements in various ways.
LATEST RESEARCH
Canada: 2013 Spectrum Auction Spurs LTE Network Investments
The Canadian telecom market generated $45.3bn in service revenue in 2011, an increase of 6.5% from 2010. The most important area of growth over the forecast period will be mobile data. The 700MHz spectrum auction in early 2013 will spur investment in, and deployment of, LTE networks,fueling the already strong growth in mobile broadband and will help to make mobile data the most important source of service revenue by 2015.
ATCA, AMCs & MicroTCA: 2012 User Survey
Service Providers Use CEM for Competitive Advantage
LTE-Advanced: The Hope Beyond the Hype
Big Vendors Race to Establish Carrier Cloud Leadership
Healthcare Sector Turns to MPLS VPNs for a Data Cure
Financial Institutions Cash In on mBanking Applications
Online Video Platform Survey: Launching the Internet Video Era
Avalanche Photodiode (APD)
A semiconductor photodiode
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Events
Mobile Broadband Summit India
Tuesday June 5, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Shangri La Hotel in New Delhi & ITC Grand Central in Mumbai, Delhi & Mumbai, India
Backhaul Strategies & 4G Core Networks for Mobile Operators
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The Marriot Marquis, New York City
Managing & Monetizing OTT Video
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Royal Sonesta, Cambridge
IPv6: The Rubber Meets the Road
Thursday, July 12, 2012
The Hilton New York, New York City



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