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US Rollout of First Cloud Gaming Service to Begin During E3 2010 in Los Angeles; Launch Titles, Pricing Plans and Early Registration Program Announced at GDC 2010 San Francisco, CA — March 10, 2010 — OnLive, Inc., the pioneer of on-demand, instant-play video games, today announced that the PC and Mac® versions of its game service will begin rolling out to ...

The universal service fund (USF) has a legacy of bringing phone service to all parts of the country. The shift to wireless and broadband/IP as primary means for communication is putting strains on this support system, as more consumers leave traditional TDM voice service behind for ...

A recent article in the Economist highlights the changing views on technologies initially associated with so-called criminal Internet activity. Now a tool once reviled by broadcasters and media companies is showing new signs of life by being added to an already growing bag of Internet tricks. ...

Cable companies have been busy recently. They are moving with some element of precision in building a 'perfect competitive storm' of sorts. In so doing,  they are laying the ground work for some tough times ahead for their telco competitors, absent an effective response. Cable is leading the assault with ...

Nation’s fifth-largest carrier aggressively deploying ubiquitous Ethernet Business Services in-region and in competitive markets RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hatteras Networks, the global leader in multi-service Ethernet solutions for enterprise access services and next-generation mobile backhaul, announced today that Windstream Corporation (Nasdaq: WIN), the fifth-largest carrier in the United States, has standardized upon and deployed a Hatteras Networks solution for Ethernet service ...

If you attended last year's  TelcoTV conference, you might recall my references to a variety of new consumer devices during the "Dumb Pipe Strategy: Does it Have Merit?" panel. The panel discussion centered on OTT and discussions around placeshifting of a ...

Nation’s Largest Cooperative Deploys Calix Portfolio of Fiber Access Solutions to Support Demand for High-Bandwidth Services PETALUMA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Calix today announced that Horry Telephone Cooperative (HTC) (Conway, S.C.) has chosen the Calix Unified Access Infrastructure to deliver a variety of fiber services and applications in its network. The largest cooperative and the 18th largest Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) in the ...

Nearly 2/3 of American adults use broadband connections of one type or another to access the Internet from home. A variety of factors--income, level of education, age, race or ethnicity and location among them--are associated with lower broadband adoption, however, according to an FCC's October-November 2009 survey. Six percent of American ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb 23, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ADC (NASDAQ: ADCT) (www.adc.com), a leading supplier of infrastructure solutions for fiber deployments, announced today that Western Iowa Networks (WIN), an independent telephone company providing broadband services to communities in western and southwestern Iowa, has selected ADC's equipment to overbuild the city of Carroll, Iowa with Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH). The company's competitive local exchange ...

Qwest is expanding the availability of its fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) broadband service throughout their Colorado footprint. The top tier of Qwest’s broadband capability offers top speeds of 40 Mbps downstream/20 Mbps upstream. Qwest is ‘pushing the envelope’ regarding technology terminology for their broadband services. They ...