Nielsen: More Consumers Choosing Broadband + Over the Air Broadcast; Broadband on the high seas

Nielsen: More Consumers Choosing Broadband + OTA Broadcast ...
By Andrew Burger
Although they represent less than 5% of TV households, homes with broadband Internet but without paid TV are on the rise, the latest Nielsen Cross-Platform Report found. The percentage of people in that category rose 22.8% over last year.
Telecompetitor

Broadband on the high seas
BCS
Yesterday (February 9th) saw the launch of a second-generation maritime broadband platform, Iridium Pilot, which aims to bring 134 kbps broadband to vessels at sea across the world. Iridium Communications, which boasts a network covering the entire ...

Novatel Wireless Ovation MC679 4G LTE Mobile Internet Key Launches on TELUS ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"TELUS is committed to providing the most advanced mobile broadband devices with an extensive, advanced 4G wireless network," said Brent Johnston, vice-president, Mobility Solutions at TELUS. "We're excited to introduce our customers to the 4G LTE ...

Motorola Droid 4 (Verizon Wireless)
PC Magazine
The Motorola Droid 4 gives you top-notch Android power, fast Verizon LTE, and the very best QWERTY keyboard you'll find on a phone. Cast off your BlackBerry for good. If you've been waiting for a no-compromises, keyboarded super-phone, ...

Broadband to speed trend of sending service jobs offshore
Sydney Morning Herald
And they will be available to sell those skills on an international market, thanks to the emergence of a second fundamental force - high-speed broadband. Until now, India and the Philippines have been the major beneficiaries of the Australian trend to ...

LightSquared Broadband Plan Questioned by GPS Experts
eWeek
8 regarding the critical nature of GPS to aviation in the United States, and the issues raised LightSquared's plans to implement a broadband data service on frequency band adjacent to the country's GPS signal. The hearing was intended to determine ...

Inveneo bringing broadband to developing countries
San Francisco Chronicle
Google.org took note and supported Inveneo with a $182000 grant as the group's workers stayed in Haiti to build a broadband network amid the destruction, partnering with Haitian technology companies and training local talent to maintain and service it ...

Stoke Gateway Could Ramp up Carriers' Wi-Fi Offerings
PCWorld
By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Mobile operators will be able to plug in an appliance to easily roll Wi-Fi hotspots into their networks if infrastructure vendor Stoke delivers the product it is promising in the third quarter. The Wi-Fi Exchange gateway ...

Week in Research: In-flight broadband takes off; Cable, DSL, fiber vying for ...
FierceTelecom
Although the market has taken almost a decade to make its way off the runway, In-Stat points out that deployments of Wi-Fi on airplanes have risen in recent years. The research firm forecasts that in-flight Wi-Fi broadband deployments will surpass 6100 ...

Ofcom wants simpler broadband and landline switching
Mirror.co.uk
Research by Ofcom shows one in five people switching broadband lost their service for a week and 130000 households had the wrong telephone line taken over. Meanwhile, 520000 households had their landline or broadband service slammed – switched without ...

Mirror.co.uk

LTE boosts mobile gear by 17% in 2012
Computerworld
By Matt Hamblen Computerworld - Thanks to 4G LTE technology, the global market for mobile communications gear will grow 17% in 2012, according to research firm IHS, formerly iSuppli. The revenue received by manufacturers of mobile communications ...

WiMAX Buenos Aires a Success in Latin America
PR.com (press release)
San Diego, CA, February 10, 2012 --(PR.com)-- WiMAX Buenos Aires, the first WiMAX Forum Operator Summit event for 2012, was a success. The event drew more than 65 attendees including 14 operators to discuss the opportunities for WiMAX in Latin America.

Nielsen: Broadband Homes Skipping Pay-TV Channels Up 23%
Home Media Magazine
Subscription video-on-demand services such as Netflix may dominate the news, but the amount of time broadband homes spend streaming video content lags far behind time spent viewing primetime TV, recorded programming and browsing the Internet, ...

Home Media Magazine

GiiResearch.com: LTE Deployments Drove Cellular Network Operator CAPEX to 128 ...
PR.com (press release)
Demand for mobile broadband LTE deployments was a key driver of infrastructure sales in throughout 2011. Hartford, CT, February 10, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Global Information Inc. (GII) is pleased to announce a new market research database, "Mobile Network ...

UK broadband project spending £1m on legal fees
PC Pro
By Stewart Mitchell The Government's broadband delivery team has spent more than £1 million in legal costs, despite little progress on any of the pilot schemes. The costs were revealed in response to a written question from Labour MP Barry Gardiner, ...

PC Pro

Norfolk MPs take broadband campaign to Westminster
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
By CHRIS HILL, Rural affairs correspondent Friday, February 10, 2012 Norfolk's MPs have joined forces to take the EDP-backed Say Yes to Better Broadband campaign to Westminster. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address...

Norfolk Eastern Daily Press

HTC Velocity: The First 4G LTE Android Smartphone For Europe
Mobile Magazine
By Leo Xavier, February 09, 2012 @ 9:34am People in Europe have been waiting for a while to enjoy the glorious speeds of 4G LTE. Although some countries in the continent will still have to wait a bit more for the launch of the network, ...

People not keen to pay for fast broadband extras
Waikato Times
Internet providers may have difficulty persuading consumers and small businesses to pay extra for services that could be delivered over ultrafast broadband, a Commerce Commission report has found. Ultrafast broadband (UFB) will be made available to ...

Broadcast TV-Only Broadband Homes Jump 23%
Light Reading
The Nielsen Co. was careful not to fan the cord-cutting flames, but its latest Cross Platform Report (PDF, registration required) shows that the number of US homes with broadcast-only TV andbroadband jumped 22.8 percent since the third quarter of 2010 ...

Google to release Wi-Fi home entertainment system?
Siliconrepublic.com
Google is reportedly creating a home entertainment system which streams music wirelessly across the home, marking a change in Google's strategy towards hardware. The Wall Street Journal reports that the home entertainment system would be marked under ...

Micro-SIMs arriving at AT&T, perhaps in anticipation of 4G LTE iPhone and iPad 3
9 to 5 Mac
A regular AT&T SIM card (left) and a 4G LTE Micro-SIM (right). Click for larger. A new batch of Micro-SIMs arrived at AT&T stores and we would normally pass on the news were those normal rather than miniaturized 4G LTE Micro-SIMs.

9 to 5 Mac

Back Senate broadband bill
The Augusta Chronicle
SB 313 would not prevent public broadband networks from being built in areas truly underserved by the private market. All it would do is require lawmakers to hold hearings on their broadband plans, and put them up for a vote.

Video: Yahoo shakes up its board, Wi-Fi on planes isn't taking off, Samsung ...
PC Advisor
While it's been around for 4 years the use of in flight WiFi has still yet to take off...with only about 7% of the flying public using the service. One of the big reasons is that more and more airports are offering free WiFi and passengers would rather ...

WiFi Baby 3G Video Baby Monitor Now Compatible with Android Phones and Tablets
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
WiFi Baby, a US based supplier of WiFi network baby monitors, announces that the WiFi Baby 3G Video Monitor is now Android compatible. Parents now have the flexibility of using an iPhone, iPad, and Android phone or tablet to view and hear their child ...

Top 10 LTE infrastructure providers in Q4 2011
telecomlead.com
By Telecom Lead Team: Ericsson is leading the LTE infrastructure market with 24.8 percent in Q4 2011. Its nearest competitor Nokia Siemens Networks has 13.1 percent market share. The size ofLTE infrastructure segment in Q4 was $2.9 billion, ...

ISPreview Study Discovers UK House Prices Benefit from Superfast Broadband
PR.com (press release)
A new ISPreview.co.uk survey of 1215 internet users in the United Kingdom (UK) has found that 57% would potentially pay more for a house if it came with the latest generation of superfast broadbandconnectivity. London, United Kingdom, February 10, ...

Broadband prices to drop drastically
Mail & Guardian Online
The Minister of Communications, Dina Pule, has affirmed her predecessors' promise to achieve 100%broadband penetration by 2020. With numerous new undersea cables coming online over the next 18 months, many more people will have access to broadband and ...

Huawei adds ANR feature to LTE networks
Computer Business Review
Global information and communications technology (ICT) provider Huawei has launched the Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) feature on LTE networks. Huawei has launched the feature into commercial use on the LTE network in Cologne, Germany.

Telstra investors back Thodey's hold-off plan
The Australian
INVESTORS are betting on further upside in Telstra, despite its recent share-price run, as the company continues to win mobile and broadband customers in a challenging environment. Shares in the telco have partially rebounded after Thursday's sharp ...

Three-quarters of us are unhappy with our broadband
CNET UK
By Rich Trenholm on 10 February 2012, 10:29am Three-quarters of Britons are unhappy with their broadband, according to new figures. From poor customer service to arthritic speeds, it seems connecting to the Internet leaves the majority of us tearing...

CNET UK

Unidentified HTC phone has Android 4.0, Verizon LTE logo
The Verge
By Adi Robertson on February 10, 2012 09:35 am 0Comments PhoneArena has published pictures showing an unknown HTC LTE handset running Ice Cream Sandwich, and evidence suggests this one might be heading to Verizon. According to the hardware screen, ...

Telus turning on LTE across Canada on Friday — Mobile ...
By Kevin Fitchard
Telus will launch Canada's third LTE network on Friday, rolling out the mobile broadband technology in 14 cities from Vancouver to Halifax. It plans to expand the network throughout 2012 to cover 25 million Canadians, 71 percent of the ...
GigaOM

Iconic Japanese Mecha Inspired...a WiFi Tower?
By Brian Ashcraft
Patlabor, the iconic Japanese anime, will be reborn this year—as a WiFi tower.
Kotaku

All 4G Smartphones Free At T-Mobile For One-Day Valentine's Sale ...
By Josh Wolford
This Saturday, February 11th, for one day only, T-Mobile is offering all of their 4G smartphones for free with a 2-year contract. This deal includes the Samsung Galaxy S II, HTC Amaze 4G, Nokia Lumia 710, Balckberry Bold 9900 4G, HTC ...
WebProNews » Deals

dailywireless.org » Canada Goes LTE – 3 Ways
By Sam Churchill
DailyWireless.org covers current developments in broadband wireless, including WiMAX, LTE, WiFiand mobile aps. Online since 2002, with nearly 10000 in-depth articles, we also cover social impact of 5 billion mobile ... TELUS, Canada's third largest wireless carrier, today announced that its 4GLong Term Evolution (LTE) wireless service will be available on Friday, February 10. It will operate in 14 urban centres across Canada, including Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto and ...
dailywireless.org

Verizon plans more 4G LTE improvements in 2012 | TriCities.com
“We were the first company to bring 4G LTE to this state, and today Verizon covers 75 percent of Tennessee's population with our 4G LTE network,” said Jerry Fountain, president of the Verizon Wireless Carolinas/Tennessee region. “We have ...
www2.tricities.com - News

Mysterious HTC handset appears with LTE and Android 4.0.1 on ...
By Tyler Lee
Based on the leaked photos, it also revealed that the mysterious HTC device will be running on Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich with Sense UI 4.0 on top, and its load screen seems to suggest that it will be 4G LTE compatible and could ...
Ubergizmo

Telus LTE Network Launches Tomorrow in 14 Canadian Cities ...
By Gary Ng
“Our commitment is to offer the best customer experience and we have followed through by launching a 4G LTE network with broad coverage in many communities across Canada. We also offer a solid and growing selection of LTE capable ...
iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's...

T-Mobile to sell all 4G phones for free (sort of) on Feb. 11 - Neowin.net
By John Callaham
T-Mobile plans to offer all of its 4G-based smartphones for free (sort of) on Saturday, February 11. That includes the recent Windows Phone-based Nokia Lumia 710.
Neowin.net

Novatel Wireless Ovation MC679 4G LTE Mobile Internet Key ...
"We're excited to launch our industry leading Ovation MC679 on the new TELUS 4G LTE network with the slimmest and most compact 4G LTE USB modem on the market today." The Ovation MC679 4G LTE Mobile Internet key comes ... "TELUS is committed to providing the most advanced mobile broadband devices with an extensive, advanced 4G wireless network," said Brent Johnston, vice-president, Mobility Solutions at TELUS. "We're excited to introduce our customers to the 4G ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine - Your...

China Mobile reportedly to obtain 4G license in December 2012
The China government reportedly will issue 4G licenses earlier than originally expected in December 2012 and China Mobile may be the first to obtain a license and adopt TD-LTE (Time Division-Long Term Evolution) as a 4G standard with ...
DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia

O'Grady's PowerPage » LTE-ready micro-SIM cards arrive in AT&T ...
By Chris Barylick
Per a recent sighting at an AT&T store by Phone Arena, the store's sales staff seemed to be looking to get rid of older cards and replace them with the new versions fully capable of talking to the 4Gnetwork. An included memo didn't specifically ...
O'Grady's PowerPage

TELUS Offering Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 With LTE For An Arm And ...
By Joe Sirianni
Telus is almost ready to flip the switch on their highly anticipated LTE Network and first up for devices to rock super fast speeds is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9. You can check out our review of the Galaxy Tab 8.9 (WiFi Only) here if you haven't ...
Android News, Rumours, and Updates

ili-inter.com » Blog Archive » Business Broadband
Business Broadband There are many companies on the market at the moment providing comprehensive business broadband services. This means you can rest assured that your business is being served by a reputable and reliable ...
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BT cheers City as profits rise on broadband growth | Technology ...
BT Group took just over half of the UK's new broadband subscribers in the last three months of 2011 and cheered the City by ..... BT to begin 4G LTE trials in UK ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../feb/.../bt-profits-rise-broadband-growt...

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