by Pivot
Month: January 2011
Comcast Moving Forward With IPv6, Activates Native Dual Stack
The transition to IPv6 has picked up some urgency of late, considering IPv4 addresses theoretically are running out. Comcast is the latest service provider to outline IPv6 plans, announcing through their blog today that they…
Scott County Telephone Turns to Calix for Stimulus Project
PETALUMA, CA—January 31, 2011—Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today announced that Scott County Telephone Cooperative (Scott County) has selected the Calix E7 Ethernet Service Access Platform (ESAP) to bring Active Ethernet (AE) solutions to over 18,000…
Sprint to Offer International Roaming for 4G
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (BUSINESS WIRE), January 31, 2011 – Sprint (NYSE:S) today announced that customers traveling abroad now have roaming access to 4G networks offered by Digicel in Jamaica and Global Mobile in Taiwan. Select…
Charter Increases Broadband Speeds, Cites Advantage Over DSL
Cable MSO Charter will increase its broadband speeds at no additional charge to its customers. Beginning today, Charter Internet Express will offer 12 Mb/s, up from 8 Mb/s and Charter Internet Plus will offer 18…
Study Outlines SmartGrid Data Opportunity
The incredible amount of data generated by smart meters and the smart grid will drive the global smart grid market from $12.8 billion today to $34.2 billion in 2020, according to a new report from…
FCC Moves to Create Super Wi-Fi Spectrum Database
Spectrum Bridge, Google, Telcordia Technologies and Neustar are among nine companies conditionally selected by the Federal Communications Commission last week to serve as white spaces database administrators. That initiative had its genesis in an FCC…
Amazon to Launch Video Streaming?
Amazon.com appears to be readying a service that would make 5,000 movies and TV shows available to watch instantly, at no incremental charge, for members of the online retailer’s $79-per-year “Prime” free-shipping membership program. The…
Netflix is Cannibalizing Pay Channels
Netflix added 3.1 million subscriptions during the fourth quarter of 2010, and now has more than 20 million subscribers. That’s more than the total subscribers of premium channels Starz and Showtime, which have 17.3 million…
TDS Boosts PC Security Offer
Jan. 27, 2011 – What would you do if your computer and all of its content were gone tomorrow? Gulp. If you are like millions of Americans your “life” is in that computer. But just…
Verizon Acquires Terremark
NEW YORK and MIAMI – January 27, 2011 – In a move that will decisively reshape the rapidly evolving global business technology solutions market, Verizon Communications Inc. and Terremark Worldwide Inc. today announced a definitive agreement under which Verizon…
Netflix Rates ISPs for Video Streaming, Says Cable is Best
Netflix offered some insight into the best performance, at least by their standards, for video streaming, and apparently cable wins over telco. In a Jan. 27 blog post, Netflix, the Web’s predominant distributor of online…
Frontier is Latest Incumbent Carrier to Oppose Municipal Broadband Proposal
A city administrator in Sibley county, Minnesota has accused Frontier Communications of misrepresenting data the county gathered as part of the planning process for a proposed fiber to the home network, which would be funded…