by Pivot
Month: June 2011
IDC: Annual Smartphone Shipments to Approach 1 Billion by 2015
Smartphone shipments will total 472 million in 2011, a 55% jump from the 305 million shipped in 2010, and that’s going to more than double to 982 million by 2015.
EU Digital Agenda Sets App Targets
HP is Latest to take on Apple iPad with the Launch of TouchPad
HP announced the latest tablet to enter the tablet wars will be available July 1st. A Wi-Fi connected version will launch first, followed shortly by a 3G version
Alaska Communications Launches Prepaid Wireless
Alaska Communications today announced a new portfolio of prepaid wireless plans offering unlimited voice and data coverage
Cox Expands Wireless MVNO Footprint
Cox’s “Unbelievably Fair” advertising campaign will begin this week in Roanoke and Northern Virginia
More Rural Broadband Consolidation With Midco Buying US Cable Assets
Rural Cable MSO Midcontinent is buying cable assets from US Cable, expanding their footprint across the Midwest. Sioux Falls, SD based Midcontinent currently has
Earthlink Leverages Broadband Stimulus Money for Middle Mile Network
Earthlink announced today that it has completed the second phase of a three-phase middle mile network construction project in Tennessee for which the company won
Echostar Closes Hughes Acquisition
EchoStar Corporation and Hughes Communications announced today the successful completion of EchoStar’s acquisition of Hughes.
TV Everywhere Moving Into Rural Markets
With news of Suddenlink’s launch of Suddenlink2Go, that domain may be broadening to include more rural markets.
Comcast’s Home Security Expansion Accentuates Opportunities
Comcast’s home security expansion underscores service provider opportunities.
Report: Mobile Broadband Subscribers Surpass Fixed-Line Broadband Subscribers
As predicted, mobile broadband subscribers surpassed wireline broadband subscribers in 2010 (558 million vs. 500 million).
Report: 48 Billion Mobile App Downloads in 2015
Increasing smartphone penetration and growing consumer mobile application libraries are keystones underlying forecast growth, according to an In-Stat press release.
Is Verizon Violating Open Access Pledge With Anti-Tethering?
The Free Press urges the FCC to “act quickly to investigate Verizon’s indiscriminate and arbitrary blocking of tethering applications.”
Indiana Telco Selects Zhone for FTTH
Zhone is working with Pulaski-White Rural Telephone Cooperative to build a new fiber network
Report: 15% of US Homes OTA Broadcast-Only for TV
The number of American homes relying solely on over-the-air (OTA) television broadcasting increased from 42 million to 46 million in the past year.
ABI: LTE to Grow Faster than Expected
ABI Research forecasts that in 2016, potentially 85 million mobile subscriptions out of the 387 million total subscribers in North America will use LTE network service.
Apple iCloud Raises Wi-Fi Expectations, Value
The new cloud based digital storage service leverages Apple’s widespread penetration of digital devices, and relies on ubiquitous availability of Wi-Fi.
Mobile Will Need to Become an “App Platform”
Frontier Looks to Capitalize on Cell Phone Cancer Scare
If the WHO’s recent alert about a possible link between cellphones and brain cancer was the proverbial ill wind, then Frontier is trying to make sure it blows someone
Texas Telco Selects Calix for Stimulus Project
Calix today announced that Broadband Stimulus award winner Hill Country Telephone Cooperative has selected the Calix B6 Ethernet Service Access Nodes
Verizon Adds Flexibility to FiOS Bundling
Verizon aims to offer FiOS customers more flexibility with a new bundling pricing plan announced today. Previously customers purchasing bundled video and data
Turning Point for Enterprise Hosted VoIP?
TDS Completes Network Expansion
TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS®) announces the completion of a network expansion in Minnesota.
comScore: Nearly 75 million Americans Now Own Smartphones
In total, 234 million Americans aged 13 and up used mobile devices and 74.6 million owned smartphones– a 13% quarter-to-quarter increase– during the latest