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September 9, 2009
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Comcast Intros 100 Mbps Tier With a Twist

Comcast joins several other broadband carriers by launching a 100 Mbps broadband tier. But in Comcast's version, the super fast tier is only available to business subscribers, not residential. The new offer is priced at $369.95 per month and is currently only offered in their Minneapolis/St. Paul market. It offers upstream bandwidth of 15 Mbps. Comcast suggests ...Read more

Consolidated Communications Adopting Wi-Fi for IPTV

Consolidated Communications is the latest IPTV provider to try Wi-Fi for in-home distribution of IPTV signals. Consolidated joins Pioneer Telephone of Oklahoma as the two major U.S. IPTV providers to try Wi-Fi for IPTV. The IPTV Wi-Fi application, offered by Ruckus Wireless, is much more popular outside of the U.S. Wired distribution of video throughout the home using technologies like HomePNA and ...Read more

Streaming Game Service OnLive Goes Into Beta

OnLive, the streaming video game provider, has officially opened their platform to beta testers. OnLive hopes to replicate the console gaming experience through broadband streaming, similar in concept to streaming of movies instead of buying a DVD. According to BroadbandReports.com, customers will need to be within 1,000 miles of an ...Read more

Verizon Wants the Facts Straight on FiOS

QwestIn the fierce competitive battle for subscribers between cable and telco, marketing efforts can sometimes get a little murky concerning the facts. It's kind of like political campaigns. We've all seen cable ads that slip in 'fiber' or 'fiber optics' in some way, subtly suggesting that they too, in addition to FiOS, offer fiber services. Of course we all know ...Read more

North Carolina Bucks the Trend, Only Applies for $28 Million in Broadband Stimulus Funds

North Carolina's Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC) has applied for $28.1 million in Broadband Technology Opportunities stimulus/recovery funding to extend and expand the North Carolina Research and Education Network, a state-wide private fiber education and research network that links state primary, secondary schools, universities ...Read more

Wi-Fi Consumer Devices Continue to Proliferate

Further evidence of Wi-Fi's pervasive nature, new research from In-Stat reveals that Wi-Fi products "continue to proliferate across nearly all categories, including computing, networking, consumer electronics and mobile devices." Released Sept. 1, more than 1,000 new Wi-Fi products were introduced in 2008, and that number is likely ...Read more
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