Telecompetitor

It’s official – Google announced they are applying on Monday to participate in FCC auction 73 for coveted 700 Mhz spectrum. We’ve talked before about a world in which Google is a competitor in the telecom service provider realm. It’s enough to send shivers up the back of some existing service provider execs. Of course, just applying for participation in the auction ...

There are reports surfacing that the consortium of large MSOs that make up Pivot Wireless have begun strategizing their next move. That move probably does not involve Sprint, which recently announced they were halting Pivot deployments. This has to be considered a real blow to the likes of Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, and Advance/Newhouse, the Pivot consortium members. The AP is ...

Recent news does not bode well for the wireless joint venture between Sprint and several cable MSOs, branded as Pivot Wireless. Sprint announced during their quarterly analyst call that they are freezing the rollout of Pivot to any further markets due to “provisioning complexities.” In other words, they can’t get it to work, at least not without too much trouble. Both Sprint and its cable partners have publicly said ...

Cox announced the launch of their Pivot Wireless service in northern Virginia, a key suburb of the Washington D.C. market. Northern Virginia joins markets in Arizona, New England, Oklahoma, and San Diego where Cox has launched their Pivot Wireless service. Pivot is joint venture with Sprint, where the Sprint wireless network is the underlying carrier. Pivot attempts to link cable service with wireless by offering ...

IPTV and cable providers have long known that local content can be an effective differentiation strategy. That view is now extending to mobile wireless service, with Pivot Wireless experimenting with local video content for mobile phones. Not to be confused with the original production of local content, Pivot’s local content strategy simply repurposes existing local news, weather, and sports broadcasts for the mobile phone. TelecomWeb ...

According to a Multichannel News report, the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) is in discussions with Sprint to resell wireless service. NCTC executive vice president Scott Abbott noted that the discussions are very early on and no deal is imminent. It is unclear whether such a potential arrangement would be an extension of the Pivot Wireless initiative, or just a straight ...

Sprint and Google announced a partnership to develop WiMAX based applications for the upcoming Sprint WiMAX network. The goal is to marry applications from the Google Apps suite with devices that will utilize the Sprint WiMAX network. According to their joint press release, the partnership will allow customers “… to experience a new form of interactive communications, high ...