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News & Views Most Popular AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Stand Up for mmWave Auction, but Cable Is MIA Again By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 10/9/2019 Some of the nation's biggest telecom companies – including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Dish Network – appear to be planning to participate in the FCC's upcoming mmWave spectrum auction. But big cable companies are missing in action. Post a Comment Net Neutrality Is Dead Yet Again By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 10/1/2019 States still have the option of enacting their own net neutrality regulations following today's DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding the FCC rollback of net neutrality rules. Post a Comment WiFi 6 Is Here. Should Mobile Operators Worry? By Martha DeGrasse, Contributor, Light Reading, 9/26/2019 A new, more powerful version of the WiFi standard is now available. How might this new technology impact mobile network operators heading toward a 5G future? Post a Comment Advertisement Cox Also Flexing Its Streaming Muscles By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/18/2019 Cable op has quietly launched the Contour Stream Player, Cox's twist on Comcast's Xfinity Flex video streaming product for broadband-only subs. Post a Comment Comcast Offers 'Xfinity Flex' for Free to Broadband-Only Subs By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/18/2019 Video streaming platform features a video client, voice remote and integration with Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video and, soon, an upgrade path to Comcast's full pay-TV service. Post a Comment Comcast Snares Set-Top App Specialist Metrological By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/16/2019 Comcast pulls more engineering and software development expertise in-house for its X1 and Xfinity Flex video and smart home platforms. Post a Comment Charter Is Preparing to Build a Wireless Network By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 9/13/2019 Cable company Charter Communications is expected to begin building an LTE network in 3.5GHz spectrum in select locations where it counts a large number of Spectrum Mobile customers. Post a Comment Advertisement What to Expect From Altice Mobile By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 9/10/2019 Analysts expect Altice USA to collect 1.7 million mobile customers by 2023, and pay Sprint around $2.50 for each GB those customers consume. Post a Comment Altice Mobile Debuts $20 Per Month 'Price for Life' to Optimum & Suddenlink Subs By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 9/5/2019 Altice USA's new 'Unlimited Everything' offering, underpinned by its MVNO deal with Sprint, will be sold for $30 per line per month to non-Optimum and Suddenlink customers in or near its 21-state footprint. Post a Comment Videotron Pulls Out Comcast's Playbook By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/28/2019 Canadian MSO debuts 'Helix' platform featuring broadband gateways, IP video clients, WiFi extenders and home networking management software originating from Videotron's X1 syndication deal with Comcast. Post a Comment Comcast, Charter to Offer 5G Via Verizon MVNO By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/23/2019 Comcast's Xfinity Mobile and Charter's Spectrum Mobile MVNOs will offer Verizon's 5G service to their respective customers at some unspecified point in the future. Post a Comment Light Reading Packs Double Wallop at Cable-Tec Expo By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 8/19/2019 For the first time, Light Reading will offer two breakfast roundtables on key tech topics at this fall's SCTE\|ISBE Cable-Tec Expo in New Orleans – the first on network virtualization and the second on cable and 5G. Post a Comment Did Altice Change Its Tune on Buying Spectrum? By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/16/2019 Altice said it wants to buy C-Band spectrum, which appears to represent a bit of a change from the company's previous strategy. Post a Comment CommScope Seeking New Leader for Ruckus Unit By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/13/2019 CommScope CTO Morgan Kurk is running Ruckus on interim basis following recent departure of unit's former president, Ian Whiting. Post a Comment Comcast Expands Reach of 'Internet Essentials,' 15-Meg Remains Service's Sweet Spot By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/6/2019 By including people with disabilities and seniors, Comcast says 3 million more homes are eligible for Internet service, subsidized PCs and digital literacy training targeted to low-income Americans. Post a Comment Cable MVNOs Are Beginning to Hurt U.S. Cellular By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 8/6/2019 U.S. Cellular acknowledged that cable MVNOs from the likes of Comcast and Charter are now beginning to affect the company's mobile business. Post a Comment Former Dish Wireless Exec to Take R&D Helm at CableLabs By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/2/2019 Mariam Sorond was most recently chief wireless architect and VP of technology development at Dish. Post a Comment Charter Sets Employee Tests for 'Spectrum Connectivity Platform' By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/2/2019 Software for broadband devices, believed to support OpenWRT, designed to help customers manage and optimize in-home WiFi, tweak router settings and pause Internet connectivity. Post a Comment Comcast's Xfinity Mobile to Tweak By-the-Gig Pricing By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 7/30/2019 Two years after launching its Xfinity Mobile MVNO, Comcast is tweaking its By-the-Gig pricing by adding two new options: 3GB for $30/month and 10GB for $60/month. Post a Comment Rogers' Ignite TV Not Yet Taking Off By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 7/23/2019 Despite its accelerating rollout of Ignite TV, a syndicated version of Comcast's cloud-based X1 video platform, Rogers is still seeing video subscriber losses mount. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Sparklight Enterprise Upgrades WiFi to Business Class Thursday, October 17, 2019 Comcast Acquisition of Epproach Communications Boosts Managed WiFi for MDUs Tuesday, October 15, 2019 Cujo AI, AirTies Broaden Their Data Deal Monday, October 14, 2019 Altice Labs Embraces RDK Broadband Gateways Thursday, October 10, 2019 AirTies Debuts WiFi 6 Portfolio for Service Providers Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Plume Lands NCTC Partnership Tuesday, October 1, 2019 AirTies Enhances Cloud-Powered Home WiFi Platform Thursday, September 5, 2019 Edgewater Wireless Amps Up WiFi 'Spectrum Slicing' Tech Licensing Efforts Friday, August 23, 2019 Quickline, AirTies Team on Whole-Home WiFi Thursday, August 15, 2019 Armstrong Plugs In Plume for 'Zoom' Whole-Home WiFi Service Tuesday, July 30, 2019 Comcast's New WiFi Parental Control Feature Can Cap a Kid's Connectivity Time Tuesday, July 30, 2019 Nokia Broadens Whole-Home WiFi Line-Up Tuesday, July 9, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Hardware Is the New Attack Surface – Forrester 12/12/2019 Attackers have already begun to breach security at the BIOS level, according to a ... 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MobiledgeX's Jason Hoffman: State of the Edge The 5G Connectivity Challenge Network Intelligence & Automation in Mergers & Migrations Why Telcos Need an Elastic Services Platform Why Hardware Still Matters in the SDN Era Why Is Autonomous Operations Key to Your Network Evolution? Ribbon's Kevin Riley Talks New Company Brand, Latest ... The Cumulus Networks Success Story CloudPassage Ensuring Next-Level Container Security EXFO: Next-Level Assurance Solutions & Automation EXFO: Automate or Stagnate RAD Shares Insights on Latest Developments in vCPE & ... 100GbE in Action & More at MEF17 ADLINK Talks About OCP & Next Generation Telecom ... LINX Talks Open Networking & OcNOS Nominum & Security for Small to Midsized Businesses C-V2X Is Getting Ready for Commercialization With ... Ixia Launches World’s First 400GE Testing Solutions Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs Integrate the RF Signal Chain Pluribus: SDN & Beyond Cloud, Security, AI & IoT Are Driving the Need for ... 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