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FCC: Put a Price on Unlicensed Spectrum
News Analysis | 5/25/2018 | 1 comment Spectrum means money. Even the unlicensed kind.
Vanquished in Video, Verizon Admits OTT Defeat
News Analysis | 5/23/2018 | 4 comments After several years of failing to launch an IPTV service, Verizon now says it will partner with another OTT provider.
Time for an Edge Computing Reckoning
MariNation | 5/23/2018 | 2 comments There's still a lot of ambivalence from operators around edge computing, and the killer app for many of them is anything that helps deliver more bits for less money.
Comcast, Hippo Offer Home Insurance With IoT-Powered Savings
News Analysis | 5/22/2018 | 2 comments 2010 called. It wants its business model back.
CableLabs Is Building a VR Media Spec... With the Holodeck in Mind
News Analysis | 5/21/2018 | 1 comment Hello, future.
Has AT&T Inked a Deal With Google for TV?
MariNation | 5/18/2018 | 224 comments And if so, what does a devil's bargain with Android TV mean?
Senate Vote Says Net Neutrality Can Stay Around a Little Longer
News Analysis | 5/16/2018 | 1 comment Take the wins where you can get 'em.
FCC Nixes Net Neutrality Rules on June 11
News Analysis | 5/10/2018 | 4 comments Meanwhile, advocates in the Senate continue waging a public fight to keep net neutrality rules in place.
Telco Foe, New York AG Resigns
News Analysis | 5/8/2018 | Post a comment Allegations of physical assault led New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to resign Monday night.
Telcos Push to End the Great Unbundling
News Analysis | 5/7/2018 | Post a comment Regulatory rate-setting is so 2016.
Mobile Merger Changes Cable Calculus
News Analysis | 5/7/2018 | 4 comments The Sprint/T-Mobile deal complicates the cable MVNO universe.
What's Left of Cisco's Love Affair With Cable?
MariNation | 5/3/2018 | 4 comments Remember the good times.
Leading Lights 2018 Finalists: Most Innovative Edge Computing Strategy
News Analysis | 5/2/2018 | Post a comment The envelope please...
DOJ Makes Last Stand Against AT&T
News Analysis | 5/1/2018 | Post a comment The government has a fallback position if its strategy to block the AT&T acquisition of Time Warner doesn't succeed outright.
Connect & Compute – Balance at the Edge
MariNation | 4/30/2018 | 1 comment How much will it cost to add intelligence to the network edge?
Where Charter's Chugging Along... & Where It's Not
News Analysis | 4/27/2018 | 1 comment Investors may be worried about the wrong things.
Comcast & the Set-Top Double Bind
MariNation | 4/26/2018 | 2 comments The set-top is Comcast's primary consumer interface, but it's not the best tool for smart home control.
New Data on Pole Prices Power 5G Debate
News Analysis | 4/25/2018 | Post a comment The cost of 5G deployments depends in part on the cost of pole attachment fees.
How Do You Future-Proof the Last Mile?
MariNation | 4/23/2018 | Post a comment Time to gaze into the crystal ball.
Comcast, Charter Hint at New MVNO Deals
News Analysis | 4/20/2018 | Post a comment A new joint operating platform owned by Comcast and Charter will support multiple MNVO partners.
In DOJ Trial, Where Are the Concerns Over AT&T Privacy Practices?
MariNation | 4/20/2018 | Post a comment AT&T isn't being scrutinized for privacy concerns in its ongoing trial with the DOJ. Given recent Facebook revelations, maybe it should be.
AT&T Exec Dishes That He's Not So Hot on Rival-Partner Comcast
News Analysis | 4/19/2018 | 5 comments The trial pitting the Department of Justice against AT&T is doing a fair job of airing the pay-TV industry's dirty laundry.
Pay-for-Play Is a Sticking Point in Congress
News Analysis | 4/18/2018 | 4 comments ...in the net neutrality debate. Why, what were you thinking?
BDAC Blowback – Ex-Chair Arrested
News Analysis | 4/17/2018 | 11 comments It doesn't help the optics when your former committee chair now faces jail time.
DirecTV Now Inches Toward Cloud DVR Debut
News Analysis | 4/16/2018 | 1 comment Nine months and counting to birth this baby.
Cox Talks Smart City Co-Creation
News Analysis | 4/16/2018 | 1 comment Because co-creation just sounds more exciting than collaboration.
Comcast, Netflix Cozy Up in New Deal
News Analysis | 4/13/2018 | 4 comments Welcome to the newest bundle.
2 Cities Put Future of Wireless to the Test
News Analysis | 4/12/2018 | 1 comment 'Most of all, it took a lot of crazy.' Major telecom players are lining up to build city-scale testbeds for next-generation wireless technologies.
Comcast Revs Up Smart Home Engine
News Analysis | 4/10/2018 | 3 comments New updates are rolling out on Comcast's smart home platform.
Calix, Infosys Team on Access Network 'Apps'
News Analysis | 4/10/2018 | Post a comment Calix has reeled in global services company Infosys as a development partner for virtual network functions within AXOS, Calix's software-defined access network environment.
Everything's Up-to-Date in Kansas City
Slide Shows | 4/6/2018 | 5 comments Kansas City hosted this year's Smart Cities Connect conference and showed off some of its own smart city projects.
Sprint: 3 Big Smart City Challenges
News Analysis | 4/5/2018 | 1 comment Smart cities are no walk in the park.
City CIO Talks Broadband in the Big Easy
News Analysis | 4/4/2018 | 2 comments New Orleans is getting scrappy with its broadband plans.
Qwilt CDN Launch Busts Open the ISP Edge
News Analysis | 4/4/2018 | Post a comment It's not your parents' CDN. 
New Orleans: Unique in Jazz, Coastline & Broadband
LRTV Documentaries | 4/3/2018 | Post a comment Light Reading's Mari Silbey interviews New Orleans CIO Kimberly LaGrue on broadband in the Big Easy.
Cities to FCC: Stop Undermining Us
News Analysis | 4/3/2018 | 2 comments Another city leader has parted ways with the FCC's Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee.
Watch Out Telcos, There's a New Muni Broadband Wave on the Horizon
News Analysis | 3/30/2018 | 4 comments And it's all because of smart cities.
Telefónica Tests Ambitious New Wireless Tech
News Analysis | 3/26/2018 | Post a comment Successful trial with Cohere Technologies could have an impact on 5G development.
Comcast: New DAA Nodes to Be FDX-Capable
News Analysis | 3/23/2018 | Post a comment Comcast is expecting to be able to upgrade new DAA nodes via software to support Full Duplex DOCSIS.
Snapshot: Cable Access, a Market in Transition
News Analysis | 3/22/2018 | 3 comments There's no question that cable operators are moving forward with distributed access architecture strategies, but just what those DAA deployments will look like is a little less clear.
Analyzing Adtran's Latest Move Into Cable
News Analysis | 3/21/2018 | Post a comment Adtran is buying its way further into the cable access market.
Verizon, Cisco Lab Test 'Information-Centric Networking'
News Analysis | 3/19/2018 | 2 comments Lab test shows how to optimize mobile video delivery with more intelligence at the network edge.
Smart Cities Need Smarter Pipes
News Analysis | 3/16/2018 | Post a comment Join us for a special Light Reading event – speakers include the CIO of New Orleans, Spectrum Enterprise (part of Charter Communications), Crown Castle and more.
Amazon Proves Video's Worth
News Analysis | 3/15/2018 | 6 comments Come for the video, stay for the [insert service here].
New Net Laws & the ISP Shame Game
News Analysis | 3/15/2018 | Post a comment California goes for the gold star with new net neutrality bill.
If Mediacom's for Sale, Who Should Buy?
News Analysis | 3/14/2018 | Post a comment It's never a bad time to speculate on cable consolidation.
Cloudflare Takes On AWS Lamdba at the Edge
News Analysis | 3/13/2018 | Post a comment Edge computing for everyone!
Rumor Mill: SoftBank Still Eyeing Charter
News Analysis | 3/12/2018 | 4 comments Take this one with a healthy grain of salt.
AT&T Likens DoJ Suit to Shaved Persian Cat
News Analysis | 3/12/2018 | 20 comments '...alarmingly pale and thin.'
CableLabs Gives Optical Fiber a Massive Efficiency Boost
News Analysis | 3/9/2018 | 9 comments The latest CableLabs technology breakthrough is a doozy.
Qwilt Marries Caching, Computing at the Edge
News Analysis | 3/8/2018 | Post a comment Like peanut butter and chocolate.
Pai Promises $954M for Hurricane Recovery
News Analysis | 3/7/2018 | 4 comments Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands still haven't recovered from Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
Arris Not Ruling Out More M&A
News Analysis | 3/6/2018 | 3 comments Because at the end of the day, set-top revenue may be good, but margins stink.
Mobile Is No Passing Fad for US Cable
News Analysis | 3/5/2018 | Post a comment Hello, can you hear me now?
AT&T's Newest IoT Strategy? BYO Network
News Analysis | 3/2/2018 | 3 comments Out of footprint? No problem?
Ericsson Wants to Add Compute to CDNs
News Analysis | 2/28/2018 | Post a comment CDNs can offer more than just storage at the edge.
Comcast Bids $31B to Steal Sky From Fox, Disney
News Analysis | 2/27/2018 | 1 comment Comcast wants to own [the] Sky.
Ruckus Reveals CBRS Home Gateway
News Analysis | 2/26/2018 | Post a comment Arris brings Ruckus to the home with new fixed wireless broadband gateway.
A Quiet Year for Video at MWC?
News Analysis | 2/26/2018 | 2 comments AT&T and Verizon aren't saying much about mobile video ahead of this year at Mobile World Congress.
Ruckus Revels in IoT & CBRS at MWC
News Analysis | 2/21/2018 | Post a comment Big product announcements arrive from the newly minted Arris subsidiary.
Stakes Run High for Tivo in Comcast Suit
MariNation | 2/20/2018 | 2 comments Even a win in court doesn't mean Tivo will walk away a victor.
PON, 5G & the Case for Convergence
News Analysis | 2/16/2018 | Post a comment 5G may finally be driving the business case for fixed mobile convergence.
Ruckus Gives Arris a Boost in Q4
News Analysis | 2/15/2018 | Post a comment Only a month after the acquisition closed, Ruckus was already contributing to Arris's top-line growth.
Com Hem Rolls Harmonic's Software CCAP
News Analysis | 2/14/2018 | Post a comment Although Com Hem isn't Harmonic's first CableOS customer, it is the first one to go on the record as deploying the vendor's virtualized cable access network system known as CableOS.
Net Neutrality: States' Rights vs. the FCC
News Analysis | 2/13/2018 | 8 comments Net neutrality is the new states' rights debate.
Federal Funds for Broadband? Unlikely
News Analysis | 2/12/2018 | 21 comments Trump's infrastructure bill promises little in the way of federal funding for broadband deployments.
Warning: US Cablecos Will Go National
MariNation | 2/9/2018 | 10 comments The shot clock has started. Tick, tick, tick... boom!
Google Access: New Leader, New Roadmap
News Analysis | 2/8/2018 | 3 comments Google has learned a lesson or two about delivering broadband.
Android TV Arrives With Evolution Digital
News Analysis | 2/7/2018 | 2 comments The future is rosy for Android TV.
Verizon Demos 50-Meg VR App Over 5G
News Analysis | 2/6/2018 | Post a comment Virtual Skybox VR demo imported 4K feeds and interactive extras into an app streamed live over Verizon's pre-5G test network.
Don't Laugh, Charter Is Testing '6G' Wireless
News Analysis | 2/2/2018 | 6 comments Maybe cry instead.
Google Cloud, Fastest Growing of Them All
News Analysis | 2/2/2018 | 4 comments Google Cloud now has a run rate of more than $4 billion annually.
Las Vegas Bets on a New Network Edge
News Analysis | 2/1/2018 | 1 comment Creating a smart city means redefining network infrastructure.
Investors Jumpy Over Juniper Q1 Outlook
News Analysis | 1/31/2018 | 2 comments Juniper revenues were down in Q4, and projections for Q1 are not making Wall Street happy.
Amdocs Scoops Up Vubiquity in $224M Deal
News Analysis | 1/31/2018 | 1 comment Vubiquity buy creates a new video vertical for operations support giant Amdocs.
Cable Closes In on 5-Gig Upstream With FDX
News Analysis | 1/30/2018 | 1 comment New milestone gives CableLabs room to begin interoperability test of Full Duplex DOCSIS technology in February.
Cisco Minds Its Microservices With Cloud Video
News Analysis | 1/30/2018 | 1 comment Video delivery gets a microservices boost.
Nationalize 5G in the US? LOL, WTF?!
MariNation | 1/29/2018 | 19 comments As if the telecom industry would ever let that happen.
Starry Trots Out New Fixed Wireless Hardware
News Analysis | 1/26/2018 | 1 comment The Starry Point Window gets an upgrade as the company plans for more fixed, pre-standard 5G wireless deployments.
Pole Control Fight Gets Net Neutrality Nasty
News Analysis | 1/25/2018 | 8 comments He who controls the poles, controls the world (of broadband).
A Critical Review of Comcast's Capex Rise
News Analysis | 1/24/2018 | 1 comment Capex is up, but revenues are trending higher faster. |
