by Pivot
Month: September 2014
Samsung Note Edge and Note 4 Carriers Include the Big Four
All four major national wireless carriers will offer Samsung’s newest phablets, unveiled at simultaneous events in Berlin, Beijing and New York today, a Samsung spokeswoman confirmed. U.S. Cellular also will get the simpler of the…
Citrix: LTE Mobile Video Viewership is 1.5x Higher Than For 3G
Accelerating deployment of commercial 4G-LTE networks is adding fuel to a trend of increasing mobile data usage, as the latest mobile broadband telecom standard meets subscribers’ growing appetite for viewing and sharing multimedia content. According…
Hello GreatLand Connections, Cable’s Newest Competitor, Maybe
To get ahead of regulator’s anti-trust concerns regarding the planned merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, a framework for a new cable MSO, made up from divested Comcast and Time Warner Cable properties, was…
AT&T Adds St. Louis to its Gigabit Plans
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — AT&T today confirmed it will expand its ultra-fast AT&T GigaPower network to the City of St. Louis. The all-fiber network will bring symmetrical upload and download broadband speeds…
Calix: GigaCenter Supports Whole Home High-Speed Wi-Fi
Moving forward, service providers are likely to become more involved in customers’ home networks, as an announcement from Calix today illustrates. The company introduced a new product dubbed GigaCenter that combines the functionality of an…
C Spire Adds Jackson to Its Gigabit Plans
September 02, 2014 — JACKSON, Miss.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mississippi’s largest city and its state capital may soon be known for more than being one of the friendliest communities in the U.S. Municipal leaders and C Spire executives…
TDS Closes on BendBroadband Acquisition
MADISON, Wis. (Sept. 2, 2014)—TDS Telecom, a subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. [NYSE: TDS], announces the completion of the purchase of substantially all of the assets of BendBroadband, a cable and broadband company…
IEEE ComSoc: 5G Wireless Demos Use High Frequencies
With emerging next-generation 5G wireless technology generating strong interest among communications technology professionals, the IEEE Communications Society has issued a review of preliminary 5G wireless channel models. The report also includes news of live 5G…
Northwest Telecom Association Members to Deploy Underwater Science Network
September 02, 2014 — HUNTSVILLE, Ala.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ADTRAN®, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation networking solutions, today announced as part of its Enabling Communities, Connecting Lives program, it is enabling the Northwest Telecommunications Association (NWTA)…
Reinvent the Home Phone for Different Markets
“Two in every five American homes (39.4%) had only wireless phones as of the first half of 2013. About 38% of U.S. adults (or 90 million) and 45.4% of U.S. children (33 million) lived in…
FCC Considers Relaxing Telecom Accounting Rules
Telephone companies could spend a lot less time on bookkeeping as the result of a notice of proposed rulemaking released by the Federal Communications Commission in mid-August. The commission is considering relaxing rules detailed in…