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News & Views Most Popular Comcast Brings Eye Control to X1 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/17/2019 Expanding on its accessibility capabilities, Comcast has added a feature to its X1 video service that enables people with physical disabilities to navigate the service with only their eyes. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Huawei Cuts Sales Forecast as US Blacklist Bites By Robert Clark, 6/17/2019 Huawei's founder says revenues will be lower than previously expected in the short term, due to pressure exerted by the US, but that it will be ready to grow again from 2021. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Comcast & Charter Have Bad Apple Deals – Report By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/14/2019 Apple has leverage in its mobile-facing deals with Comcast and Charter, requiring both to sell large numbers of other Apple devices, including iPads and Apple TVs, CNBC reported. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner Not sure how much the deal with Comcast has had a huge impact, but iPad sales... Advertisement WiCipedia: How Disruption Will Affect Women & Int'l Tech Liberation Has Issues By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 6/14/2019 This week in our WiC roundup: Girls in Tech makes biggest fundraising effort yet; Microsoft takes its Women in Cloud initiative on the road; women in developing countries pay the price for tech; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Vimeo Streams in Support for AV1 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/13/2019 IAC-owned streaming platform joins Google, Facebook, Mozilla, Apple, Amazon and other big names that have put weight behind the new, royalty-free, bandwidth-efficient video codec. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Facebook Teams With CommScope to Join the 3.5GHz CBRS Party By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 6/13/2019 Facebook is looking to conduct unspecified tests in the 3.5GHz CBRS band. Given Facebook's wide-ranging proclivities in the wireless arena, it's unclear what the social networking giant is hoping to learn. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Not Ready for Prime Time: Omniverse Distributors Pick Up the Pieces After Pay-TV Deals Fall Apart By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/13/2019 Flixon Media's CEO thought his deal with Omniverse One World Television would be the foundation of a profitable, innovative TV service. Instead, he said he's left with financial losses and a damaged reputation. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement 3 Rivers Cuts the TV Cord By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/12/2019 Small service provider in Montana is dumping its pay-TV product to instead focus on broadband services that can pipe in OTT video services. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner RTC has a few more details about its exit from the video business posted here.... Eurobites: Telefónica Hops on Google's Cloud By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 6/12/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telefónica and Fortinet combine on Virtual Firewall service; Telia offers comfort to Swedish bus passengers; Orange connects Russian shipping fleet. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Cable Access Network Spending Falls 38% in Q1 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/11/2019 'Strong slowdown' on capacity purchases alongside ongoing delay in distributed access architecture deployments combine for a dreary quarter, according to Dell'Oro. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Nokia, Altibox Give Cable Network Virtualization a Dose of Reality By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/10/2019 Deployments of cable distributed access architectures and network virtualization aren't going gangbusters yet, but recent activities in Europe also show that it's not at a standstill, either. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Eurobites: Three UK Promises 5G Services in 25 Locations This Year By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 6/10/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Ericsson settles with patents firm; Telefónica commits to fiber for everywhere in Spain by 2024; Finland's Elisa in analytics tie-up. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: FastCache Elisa seems to be reviving the playbook they developed way back with Comptel. ... Comcast Takes First Shot at Live 4K TV By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/7/2019 Cable op will deliver live streams of Women's World Cup over its managed IP network using HEVC at 18 Mbit/s. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Will AT&T Take DirecTV for a Spin[Out]? By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/7/2019 The time is right for divestiture of DirecTV, 'the weakest piece in the AT&T puzzle,' and Dish could be the right partner in a deal that would bring much-needed consolidation to the US satellite TV market, UBS says. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: James_B_Crawshaw Make a big ($67bn) acquisition, 4 years later spin it off ... nice work for... Eurobites: Chinese Ban Could Cost Europe €55B, Warns GSMA By Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, 6/7/2019 Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: fiber takes a hold in France; Sharon White to step down from Ofcom; Channel 4 readies new ad data platform. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Hollywood: Don't Let 5G Madness Screw Up TV By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 6/6/2019 Disney, CBS and other content companies are worried that a new 5G proposal could impact TV services for up to 300 million Americans. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Glfrost TV is already "screwed up" and Google/You Tube doing a pretty good job of screwing... AT&T Exec Said Telco's Ideas Will 'Radically Reshape' TV By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/6/2019 The OTT-delivered 'thin-client' version of DirecTV will debut in Q3, but AT&T's John Donovan side-stepped questions on how the new offering will disrupt a market full of streaming competitors. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Glfrost Reality is that AT&T's plans for offerings are lacking "The Next Big Thing"... Cable Techies Eye 25-Gig Path By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 6/6/2019 Even though cable's 10-Gig-enabling broadband spec, Full Duplex DOCSIS, hasn't hit the streets yet, some leading industry engineers are already laying the groundwork for a future DOCSIS spec that would support symmetrical speeds of up to 25 Gigs. Post a Comment \| Read (0) TiVo Declares Victory Against Comcast Following ITC Ruling By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/5/2019 But so did Comcast. TiVo shares spiked in after-hours trading Tuesday after International Trade Commission issued an initial determination that partially favors the video software company. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Bulk of AT&T Fiber Sub Growth Coming From AT&T – Analyst By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/4/2019 AT&T Fiber added 1.1 million subs in the past year, good for annual growth of 57%, but rather than stealing share from cable operators, most of those subs appear to be upgrades of existing AT&T broadband customers. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive 3 Rivers Cuts the TV Cord By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/12/2019 Small service provider in Montana is dumping its pay-TV product to instead focus on broadband services that can pipe in OTT video services. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner RTC has a few more details about its exit from the video business posted here.... Comcast & Charter Have Bad Apple Deals – Report By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/14/2019 Apple has leverage in its mobile-facing deals with Comcast and Charter, requiring both to sell large numbers of other Apple devices, including iPads and Apple TVs, CNBC reported. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Jeff Baumgartner Not sure how much the deal with Comcast has had a huge impact, but iPad sales... More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards Jeff Baumgartner, 6/14/2019 1:54:55 PM Comcast & Charter Have Bad Apple Deals – Report Re: iPad rebound Not sure how much the deal with Comcast has had a huge impact, but iPad sales have been improving... in Q2 the iPad saw a 20% revenue bump in Apple's fiscal Q2-- some of that attributed to strengh of the new iPad Pro. JB... Jeff Baumgartner, 6/12/2019 5:05:38 PM 3 Rivers Cuts the TV Cord Re: RTC evaluating other TV options it can recommend... RTC has a few more details about its exit from the video business posted here. Some bullet points: -RTC will no longer provide video service in its entertainment package effective July 1. - RTC said this is a "business... MartinJoe, 6/12/2019 9:50:42 AM Comcast Ready for Clash With Hulu Re: Clash With Hulu A box of high-grade cocaine is delivered to the wrong address, triggering a clash between a pair of wannabe gangstas and the Mexican mob. Here is USA Jackets with quality replica leather & some amazing designs. FastCache, 6/11/2019 2:29:35 AM Eurobites: Three UK Promises 5G Services in 25 Locations This Year Re: Re: Polystar Elisa seems to be reviving the playbook they developed way back with Comptel. In that case it was about modernization of the operator operational support and charging system. Helsinki Telephone (Elisa today) established... James_B_Crawshaw, 6/11/2019 12:39:40 AM Will AT&T Take DirecTV for a Spin[Out]? Re: M&A Merrygoround Make a big ($67bn) acquisition, 4 years later spin it off ... nice work for the bankers. James_B_Crawshaw, 6/11/2019 12:30:02 AM Eurobites: Three UK Promises 5G Services in 25 Locations This Year Re: Polystar That is a strange acquisition for a telecom operator to make. Is Elisa trying to turn itself into a software company? Glfrost, 6/7/2019 2:59:21 PM Hollywood: Don't Let 5G Madness Screw Up TV Re: TV & Legacy Media Already DOA TV is already "screwed up" and Google/You Tube doing a pretty good job of screwing up their business as well along with Facebook and Twitter! Nothing in this mix is being demonstrated as compelling creating the opportunity... Glfrost, 6/7/2019 2:26:50 PM AT&T Exec Said Telco's Ideas Will 'Radically Reshape' TV Re: AT&T Plans Reality is that AT&T's plans for offerings are lacking "The Next Big Thing" from legacy news outlets to streaming content "repeatable engagement" is completely lacking! 5G or OTT only perpetuates the same old offerings and... stownplayer, 6/2/2019 9:33:04 AM Trump's Proposed Mexico Tariff 'Short-Sighted, Short-Tempered,' CTA CEO Says Re: I support the president i agree with the president on this. If Mexico values our business then they'll do more to stop the bleeding at the border. It's pretty simple what the president has told Mexico. The Dumocrats and activist judges are stalling... Clifton K Morris, 5/31/2019 2:55:07 PM Comcast, Charter Game to Buy Some of T-Mobile's Spectrum – Report Re: Re: Cable's long history dallying with mobility This is certainly a smart move, especially if it involves PCS band spectrum, which has much, much more compatibility with devices already owned by customers. Few people may remember this, but Craig McCaw and John Stanton... Kelsey Ziser, 5/31/2019 2:02:35 PM WiCipedia: Fembots Create Gender Divide & Snap Tackles Culture Issues Re: Re: Bezos' beneficiaries Probably! And I meant it less vindictive and more of a "see what you could have been doing with your money?" ... no one person needs billions of dollars. ErynLeavens, 5/31/2019 2:00:45 PM WiCipedia: Fembots Create Gender Divide & Snap Tackles Culture Issues Re: Re: Bezos' beneficiaries Hmm, or maybe she's just a better person? Kelsey Ziser, 5/31/2019 1:43:40 PM WiCipedia: Fembots Create Gender Divide & Snap Tackles Culture Issues Re: Re: Bezos' beneficiaries Ah good point, I didn't think of it from that perspective. Do you think part of it is a jab on her part? Like making a point that he should be more philanthropic? Jeff Baumgartner, 5/31/2019 1:09:01 PM Omniverse Drops Live OTT-TV Service for 'Single-Dwelling' Residential Subs Re: What's next? Even as Omniverse changes gears, the lawsuit continues on. It's not clear is there's a settlement in the works or if Omniverse is making this change in part to appease the court and the plaintiffs in the case to get toward... f_goldstein, 5/31/2019 1:05:50 PM Comcast, Charter Game to Buy Some of T-Mobile's Spectrum – Report Re: Cable's long history dallying with mobility Cable has played around the edges of mobile networks for a long time. Recall that Comcast used to own Metrophone, the Philly-area A-side carrier. They sold it ca. 1999 after deciding not to go big. 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