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Fixed-Mobile Convergence: Integration Key for Service Providers

June 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Chart depicting fixed-mobile convergence strategy for service providers

The acronym, FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) is being thrown around a lot lately. It is the predicted technology bundling strategy that consistently points to fixed wire-line merging with mobile wireless. The combination is an inevitable surety as consumers continually look for ways to connect to … [Read more...]

TV Everywhere: Dangers in being Second to Over-The-Top Competitors

March 6, 2012 By 1 Comment
TV Everywhere

At a Crossroads TV Everywhere must be conveyed as Superior Product Time Warner Cable (NTSE: TWC) and Comcast’s (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK) intent in creating TV Everywhere conjured up a cable TV presence on the Internet where customers could browse and view huge varieties of content by just being a … [Read more...]

Imagine Announces New Video Platform for Advanced Services

February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Imagine II

Imagine Raising Video IPTV Bar Today Imagine Communications announced successful certification of its newly created ICE Video Platform for Microsoft Mediaroom. Since the IPTV platform is growing exponentially with mobile connectedness driving that demand, Imagine has secured engineering dominance … [Read more...]

Cable Show Schedule: Convergent Solutions Top of Agenda

May 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Cable Show 2011 Exhibit

The Cable Show is gearing up for an interesting week in Chicago and the schedule looks like something out of a “Star Wars Trilogy” as the industry moves to distinguish itself as being all about content across many platforms or convergent technology, including IP and Social Network integration. … [Read more...]

Cord-Cutting: Not So Fast!

April 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Cord-Cutting We have all been led to believe cord-cutting was on the march changing the way consumers view content by switching from traditional cable providers to the highly publicized OTT (Over-The Top) video providers. Well, not so fast! While there has been a historical migration in recent … [Read more...]

Set-Top-Box Revisited: How does the Gateway solution increase competition?

April 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Home Gateway

The FCC seems determined in revisiting and repairing the current CableCard rules fiasco in which it chose to mandate a universal Set-Top-Box for Cable, Telco, and DBS providers. Where does the solution lie, and is the FCC going down another road of improbable acceptance? See (Boucher Backs FCC … [Read more...]

The Cable Pipeline: Top 10 Predictions for 2010

December 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

What will 2010 bring for the Cable-Telecom-Wireless Industry’s? Broadband and Wireless will continue an evolution of defining the way we communicate and make decisions that affect our daily lives in significant ways. Relevant companies will struggle to deal with an ever-increasing shift of … [Read more...]

Courts Agree With Comcast: Bigger Is Better!

August 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has struck down a ruling by the FCC which capped the growth of U.S. Cable Operators like Comcast to a 30% market share. The FCC rule was described as “arbitrary and capricious” and seemed to single out large operators like Comcast. … [Read more...]

The Triple-Play: Consumers Continue to Buy In!

August 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment

With all the talk about internet viewing and downloading of content; it seems that many consumers are more interested in convenience rather than being left to their own devices in constructing their own Internet Content Packages. From an NCTA report to the FCC recently, consumers are saving $35 … [Read more...]