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Articles published in April 2012
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8 published in april 2012

Photos: Service Provider Wi-Fi


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April 30, 2012 : Who has their finger on the service provider Wi-Fi pulse? Check out our photos from the recent one-day event in London

TW Cable Sets Docsis 3.0 Subscriber Record


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April 26, 2012 : The MSO now has 218,000 residential customers taking its 30-Meg and 50-Meg broadband tiers

Should Wi-Fi Be a Free-for-All?


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comment (1)
April 25, 2012 : As operators revamp their Wi-Fi service strategies, divergent marketing models have emerged

BT Tests Carrier Wi-Fi Roaming


LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Post a comment
April 25, 2012 : UK incumbent has been trialing seamless Wi-Fi authentication techniques on its live network with partners from Europe and North America

Startup Opens Gateways to Wi-Fi Services


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April 24, 2012 : Swedish startup Anyfi Networks offers software that can turn existing residential gateways into Wi-Fi hot spots

Mobile Ops Can Learn From Wi-Fi, Cisco Says


LR Mobile News Analysis - Ray Le Maistre - Comments (5)
April 24, 2012 : Service provider Wi-Fi rollouts can help mobile ops get to grips with the challenges of small cell deployments, believes Cisco

Wi-Fi 'Wild West' Challenges Carriers


LR Mobile News Analysis - Michelle Donegan - Comment (1)
April 24, 2012 : For mobile operators, Wi-Fi is like the Wild West, according to Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Gabriel Brown

Netflix Buys DVD.com Domain


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April 2, 2012 : Also: Netflix CEO carps about Comcast's HBO GO policy; Ericsson wraps up BelAir buy; Sigma Systems provisions WOW's video gateways
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5 published in april 2012

Front Porch Touts MSO Deal


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April 30, 2012 : Front Porch customer messaging solution used by top five cable MSO to drive mobile TV app adoption through Wi-Fi hot spots

Acme, Accuris Team for Wi-Fi


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April 30, 2012 : Pair join forces to launch Wi-Fi 'mobile interworking' offering

Mindspeed Powers LTE/Wi-Fi Femto


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April 30, 2012 : Transcede system-on-chip baseband processor chosen for next-generation femtocells to be deployed in South Korea

Interdigital Expands Access Manager Client


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April 26, 2012 : InterDigital announced the availability of its Smart Access Manager client on the Android and Windows Phone platforms

ZTE Does 4G Voice Via IMS


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April 25, 2012 : IMS-based 4-net convergence voice offering to be shown at IMS World Forum in Madrid
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7 published in april 2012

Carrier Wi-Fi Is Hot


EuroBlog - Ray Le Maistre - Comment (1)
April 26, 2012 : There are plenty of opportunities for everyone in the food chain to benefit from the boom in demand for Wi-Fi connectivity

Eircom Blends Wi-Fi with Broadband


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April 25, 2012 : Eircom Senior Product Manager John Bermingham explains how the operator's recently relaunched Wi-Fi service will complement its fixed and mobile broadband offerings

Anyfi Finds Its Wi-Fi Niche


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April 25, 2012 : Björn Smedman, CEO of Anyfi Networks, explains how his company's Wi-Fi virtualization software works and talks about his company's relationships with operators and Wi-Fi gateway vendors

Smartphone Revolution Helps FON Find Acceptance


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April 24, 2012 : FON COO Alex Puregger talks about the shared Wi-Fi network operator's progress, proposition, partnerships and business model -- and how the smartphone revolution gave it a new lease on life

BT: From Hot Spots to HetNets


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April 24, 2012 : Chris Bruce, head of business development at BT Wi-Fi and chair of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), talks about how BT is providing Wi-Fi services to its retail and wholesale customers and how WBA members are trialing integrated mobile/Wi-Fi services

Can Carriers Improve Wi-Fi?


Wireless Bits - Michelle Donegan - Comments (9)
April 24, 2012 : 4:30 AM There's an opportunity for mobile operators to integrate Wi-Fi into their service offerings and networks, but how will they do it?

Backhaul Security for Wi-Fi & Small Cells - by Heavy Reading


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While mobile operators are right to think positively about the opportunity that Wi-Fi and small cells represent, they also need to be hard-headed and strategic about addressing the risk of new security exposures that small cells will inevitably...