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News & Views Most Popular WiCipedia: Recruitment Gender Bias, VC Cash Stash & Making Better Decisions By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 5/24/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: Gender bias still an issue during recruitment; VC cash reserves for female-founded companies; hot job market draws in women; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) ITC to Investigate Rovi/TiVo Complaint Against Comcast By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/23/2019 Latest complaint at the International Trade Commission seeks to block imports of X1 set-tops, broadband gateway devices and associated software. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cable Gets Behind Emerging Holodeck Tech By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/23/2019 CableLabs, Charter, Cox among companies backing effort to develop an device-agnostic immersive media format for a new class of holographic video and light field displays as well as legacy flat, 2D displays. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Terabyte Broadband Homes Continue to Climb By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/22/2019 OpenVault report finds that consumers in that 'power user' group doubled in Q1 2019, a growth rate that could cause some cable operators and other ISPs to consider upping their monthly data ceilings. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast Sizing Up Plan to Syndicate a Virtual CMTS – Sources By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/22/2019 Comcast says it's premature to talk about how its network virtualization strategies will take shape, but industry sources say Comcast has discussed the idea of licensing its new tech to other MSOs. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: EE Gets to 5G First, Drops Huawei 5G Phones By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 5/22/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Deutsche Telekom's honeypots highlight hacker horrorshow; Ericsson sets up 5G hub in Moscow. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CableLabs Seeks to Supercharge WiFi By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/21/2019 New open source project from CableLabs focuses on 'Dual Channel WiFi' technology that can set up dedicated channels for specific apps and traffic types such as streaming video and online gaming. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Eurobites: Investment Up but Revenues Down for French Operators in 2018 By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 5/21/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: ZTE opens cybersecurity lab in Rome; coaxial startup lands Vodafone Germany deal; payback time for UK mobile operators? Post a Comment \| Read (0) Former Cisco Exec Takes Helm of EditShare By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/20/2019 Conrad Clemson named CEO as EditShare takes on a majority investment from ParkerGale and plots plan to scale up its business and migrate its media asset collaboration and management platform to the cloud. Post a Comment \| Read (0) ACE, Omniverse Slug It Out as Court Date Looms By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/20/2019 ACE claims it's struggling to get its mitts on a long-term contract between Hovsat & DirecTV that is key to Omniverse's streaming TV offering. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Huawei vs. Trump & the Casualties of War By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/17/2019 Putting Huawei on the trade blacklist would have dire consequences for the global supply chain and the operators that use its equipment. Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: Cloud 4G The trade issue is not a Trump issue. While I do not agree with how this... WiCipedia: Egg Freezing, Hormone Lunches & Back to Work With Babies... Oh My! By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 5/17/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: Women in Comms steals the show in Denver; moms in tech hog the headlines; women are talked over in meetings (duh); and more! Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast's MachineQ Shifts Gears By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/16/2019 Under its new OTT-like, bring-your-own broadband model, the industrial IoT company aims to scale up more rapidly and set the stage for a global services strategy. Post a Comment \| Read (0) In Chasing AT&T, Verizon & T-Mobile Diverge in 5G Video Strategies By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 5/16/2019 As AT&T digests DirecTV and Time Warner, Verizon and T-Mobile are working on refining their video strategies ahead of broad 5G rollouts. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Charter Using Mobile to Dislodge 'Inert' DSL Customers By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/16/2019 Company CFO Chris Winfrey expands on Charter's strategy to use Spectrum Mobile as a growth driver for its home broadband service. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: unbearable All Charter has to do is offer a DSL price for an entry-level broadband tier... AT&T's SVoD Services Will Be Pay-TV Friendly By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/16/2019 AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson said the expectation is that distributors like Comcast will be 'important partners' for WarnerMedia's upcoming set of OTT-delivered subscription VoD services. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast Still Has Big Streaming Dreams By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 5/15/2019 Even as it hands over operational control of Hulu to Disney and paves the way to sell its Hulu stake, Comcast sees loads of opportunity in the OTT video market as it revs up plans for both Sky's Now TV streaming service in Europe and NBC's forthcoming OTT service. Post a Comment \| Read (0) WOW & Philo Bundle Up By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/15/2019 Continuing a growing trend, WOW has become the latest cable operator to combine its broadband service with a skinny bundle OTT-TV offering. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Leadership Change Afoot at Arris's Network & Cloud Unit By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/15/2019 Following CommScope merger, Dan Whalen has left the company and been succeeded by another industry vet, Kevin Keefe, who takes the reins of the unit during a critical time for the company. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Ofcom Calls Time on Customer 'Loyalty Penalty' By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 5/15/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: 3SS adds AI to the video mix; Insight TV pushes into MENA; the changing face of content consumption. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Huawei vs. Trump & the Casualties of War By Iain Morris, International Editor, 5/17/2019 Putting Huawei on the trade blacklist would have dire consequences for the global supply chain and the operators that use its equipment. Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: Cloud 4G The trade issue is not a Trump issue. While I do not agree with how this... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards stateoforigin, 5/24/2019 6:40:50 AM Comcast Ready for Clash With Hulu Re: State of origin 2019 Live The Channel Nine will broadcast state of origin rugby series all game in new wales and Queensland in Australia. beside channel 9 Sky sports will also broadcast State Of Origin Game 2019 Live Free and 2GB and ABC radio... Cloud 4G, 5/23/2019 11:55:39 AM Huawei vs. Trump & the Casualties of War Re: Re: Huawei: Trump The trade issue is not a Trump issue. While I do not agree with how this has been pursued and think it is like kids in a closet playing with a box of matches and lighter fluid - it can burn down the house we all live... susancem, 5/23/2019 12:17:31 AM Huawei vs. Trump & the Casualties of War Re: Re: The impact runs deep because of cross-licensing and supply chain entanglements Yes The US attack on Huawei may take years to resolve. And that poses a big problem not just for Huawei but also the host of companies in the supply and customer base ecosystem they do business. The final outcome may get... mdrejhon, 5/22/2019 5:15:22 PM Charter Nears Gigabit Finish Line Re: Re: Good News I am in Canada too and I use a 1TB consumer dropbox account to sync my entire computer (My Documents, Photos, Videos, etc) while also being able to remotely access it on other devices. It conveniently doubles... Cloud 4G, 5/19/2019 10:20:19 PM Huawei vs. Trump & the Casualties of War Re: The impact runs deep because of cross-licensing and supply chain entanglements Huawei's business has developed, as every competitor with such a broad range of wired and wireless products must, a deep set of technology cross-licensing and supply relationships. For example, Huawei supplies 3G,... MikeP688, 5/18/2019 3:39:48 PM Verizon's $4.4B AOL Buy a Digital Media Play Re: Re: Fascinating Times.... Thanks for the thought--what is interesting iw how Verizon has now pretty much "zero'd out" this play--hasn't it? Cheers... jonsnow1221, 5/18/2019 12:37:53 AM Verizon's $4.4B AOL Buy a Digital Media Play Re: Re: Fascinating Times.... By the post, we get to know how the Verizon is doing many changes in the field of technology and the thing is that I have also tried the application related to the 5g services. Epson error code e-01 unbearable, 5/17/2019 9:07:21 PM Charter Using Mobile to Dislodge 'Inert' DSL Customers Re: How to dislodge DSL... All Charter has to do is offer a DSL price for an entry-level broadband tier (say 25mbps to be "legit") with DSL "lifetime" pricing in lieu of the never-ending expiring promo game at 200mbps "inert" folks clearly don't r... bothandeach, 5/17/2019 4:10:47 PM Huawei vs. Trump & the Casualties of War Re: Huawei: Trump Trump must go ASAP for the good of the USA and the World VP,CTO54087, 5/14/2019 9:12:52 AM Comcast Business Beefs Up Managed WiFi Via Deep Blue Buy Re: MSO to WiFi, How Deep Does it Get? Comcast is a proactive MSO. Wondering how far behind is the rest of the pack. Hospitality is a strategic choice due to ubiquitous urban presence. It would make sense if this is a 5G off-load... Jeff Baumgartner, 5/10/2019 9:13:28 AM TiVo to Hew Its Products & Licensing Businesses Into Two Re: Color from the TiVo call As a follow-on, here are some bullet points from yesterday's earnings call, per the Seeking Alpha transcript. -By separating out the IP licensing biz, TiVo believes it can take a "customer-first" strategy with its product... Jeff Baumgartner, 5/9/2019 11:17:05 AM A Service Called 'Omni Go' Quietly Replaces FlixonTV Re: Flixon-Omniverse Deal Has Ended Flixon announced this week that the partnership it entered into with Omniverse in 2017 has come to an end, confirming that the Flixon TV service is no longer available under the Flixon brand and all of those customers are... wilfredbarry, 5/6/2019 10:58:28 AM DOCSIS 3.1 Still Rules the Cable Roost Re: Data transmission speed Have you compared your findings with the performance of Adara's SDN offered on AWS? [email protected], 5/1/2019 1:21:21 PM Hansen Acquires Sigma Systems in $117M Deal Re: Re: Scale Yes, Hansen is nowhere near the same scale but it now has more heft and a combined OSS/BSS proposition that will put in line for more opportunities, I imagine. BUt agree, not yet Premiership status in terms of fire-power... James_B_Crawshaw, 5/1/2019 11:27:36 AM Hansen Acquires Sigma Systems in $117M Deal Re: Scale Hansen will need to make a few more acquisitions to match the scale of Amdocs, Netcracker and Ericsson. There are plenty of options out there but integrating them and turning it into a cohesive offer would be a challenge... More Message Boards		Security Now Strategic Security Equals Faster Digital Transformation Larry Loeb, Author, 5/23/2019 Survey finds that respondents who adopted a more traditional or reactive approach ... (0) Suppliers Cut Off Huawei Larry Loeb, Author, 5/22/2019 If Android is to 'fork' following Huawei's isolation, the enterprise needs to ... 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