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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 4:34pm MST
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Only 7% Use In-Flight Wi-Fi - Price Remains Too High for Many
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:20pm MST
The latest numbers from Instat suggest that just 7% of potential customers use in-flight Wi-Fi. Though that number is still up from 4% in 2010, usage is still low enough that making the services profitable continues to be an ongoing problem. Customers have grown increasingly used to getting free Wi-Fi from coffee shops, their ISPs, and even in airports courtesy of Google -- and most seem to feel that the price for in-flight service remains in the luxury range. Instat notes availability remains limited with just 16% of the North American commercial fleet being wired for Wi-Fi service in 2010. Airlines collected $155 million in charges for onboard Internet service in 2011, and are expected to collect $225 million in 2012.
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Sprint Details iDen Network Shutdown - New Map Gives Insight Into Tower Consolidation
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 1:42pm MST
When Sprint first announced they'd be spending between four and five billion dollars to retrofit all of their antenna base stations (and upgrading to LTE), the company noted that plan involved the slow phasing out of the formerly-Nextel iDen network, with that effort starting in 2013 and the network being shuttered completely by 2017. The company this week launched a new website that gives more detail on the company's base station consolidation and iDen network shutdown on a region-by-region basis. As iDen gets shut down, Sprint plans to use that 800 MHz spectrum to help supplement capacity for their new LTE network. According to Sprint, their new "next-generation" Push-to-talk coverage footprint will increase to nearly 2.7 million square miles and is expected to cover a population of 309 million, up from the iDen network's the iDEN network s 908,370 square miles covering a population of 278 million.
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Verizon RedBox Might Include Live Television - Company Wants to Take TV Brand Nationwide
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 11:11am MST
Yesterday Verizon announced that they'd be partnering with RedBox on a new streaming video service. Verizon had been considering such a project for some time, at one point even considering some kind of over-the-top live subscription TV play to be offered to customers outside of their traditional FiOS footprint. Eric Bruno, Verizon s SVP of consumer product management, tells Multichannel News that it's "to be determined" whether they'll offer Live TV. "From a FiOS perspective, we participate in about 30% of the marketplace," Bruno said. "We want to compete in 100% of it From a Verizon perspective, this lets us compete on a national basis." Given Verizon's cozy new relationship with the cable industry, and their walled-garden approach on the 360, expecting anything too disruptive to traditional TV would be a tall order.
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First SuperBowl Stream Disappoints - Despite Piracy Gripes, NBC Doesn't Try Very Hard
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 9:34am MST
It's fairly amazing to realize that this year was the first time the Superbowl was streamed online, despite the significant spread of faster broadband (DOCSIS 3.0, FTTH). However, the reviews of NBC's effort weren't particularly good, with users complaining of very poor stream quality, lag, and limited viewing options in the age of interactive Internet video. Chrome users couldn't get the Silverlight player to load whatsoever. Users who watch the Superbowl for the ads and halftime show didn't see either watching NBC's stream, since they somehow failed to get the appropriate licensing in place. In short, because NBC (already a decade late on this stuff) didn't try very hard, users who pirated the stream got a more complete experience than those who didn't. Cue Mark Cuban, who'll now insist this is all simply because Internet video can never work.
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Rogers, BCE Early Partners for Apple TV - Truly Revolutionary or More Walled Garden Junk?
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:32am MST
According to a report in the Globe and Mail, Canadian providers Rogers and BCE will be among the first ISPs to partner with Apple on their upcoming television sets. Apple's new televisions have been rumored for some time, and are expected to integrated the Siri voice command functionality found in the iPhone 4S. Like Microsoft's XBox Live video offerings, it sounds like Apple is signing on numerous partners for content. However as we've noted a lot lately, Apple doesn't have a magical formula to bypass the entertainment industry's restrictive licensing, which has been responsible for keeping numerous companies (Google, Apple, Microsoft) from truly revolutionizing Internet video.
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Study: AT&T LTE Outperforms Verizon LTE - 'The Mother of All Network Benchmark Tests'
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:08am MST
In the latest version of "The Mother of All Network Benchmark Tests," Signals Research finds that AT&T's LTE network performs "markedly better" that Verizon's LTE network in early tests in several markets, while noting that LTE performance overall lags somewhat due to an immature ecosystem and lower-quality early LTE devices. "Once normalized for channel bandwidth and MIMO, not to mention taking into consideration network loading, the performance differences across all technologies were relatively modest in the downlink," notes the report. "In a few cases, DC-HSDPA outperformed LTE, even without making these adjustments and EV-DO Rev A outperformed HSPA+." The firm noted that LTE upstream speeds are where the technology tends to notably outperform predecessors.
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Cablevision (Still) Cooking Up Wi-Fi Phone Project - "Optimum Mobile" Still Being Whipped up in Kitchen
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:48am MST
Back in 2010 we noted that Cablevision was tinkering with some kind of mobile phone service that relied on Wi-Fi, which would obviously be partnered with the company's significant investment in offering Wi-Fi to its subscribers along metro NYC commuter lines. "We are trialing phones that switch from Wi-Fi to cellular and back as you move in and out of Wi-Fi and cellular zones," then Cablevision COO Tom Rutledge said in a 2010 earnings call. Fierce Cable has since spotted some additional information in some patent filings, which note the cable company is working on a service called "Optimum Mobile" but has yet to iron out kinks such as getting suitable roaming partners in place for when users are outside of the range of Wi-Fi.
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Verizon's Double Data Cap Offer Returns Friday - $30 for 4 GB of Usage Offer Returns
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:42am MST
Last November Verizon Wireless launched a new promotion offering new LTE users double their usual data allotment for wireless data plans, something Verizon admitted was both to push users toward new LTE phones -- and away from their EVDO network in order to ease any possible iPhone congestion issues. The deal recently ceased, but was part of the reason AT&T raised their caps ever-so-slightly (unfortunately, their prices increased as well). Now, in addition to the launch of the Droid 4, Verizon plans to bring the deal back starting February 10. As of Friday, anybody that buys a new LTE smartphone can once again get double data for their selected plan, which for most of you means $30 for 4 GB of monthly usage.
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Tuesday Morning Links -
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:43am MST
Cablevision develops technology for WiFi-based mobile phone service fiercecable.com
Is the Open Web Doomed? Open Your Eyes and Relax techpresident.com
MPAA Sues LimeWire Back From The Dead torrentfreak.com
Since 2009, Mobile Internet Usage Has Doubled Every Year readwriteweb.com
Cricket Wireless has the music industry feeling chirpy: MuveMusic helps labels tap vast underserved audience - people who can't afford computers latimes.com
WiFi in flight has yet to soar pcworld.com
Wireless Firms Live Or Die With Smartphone Strategies investors.com
Simplexity MVNO Services will launch wireless service with Sprint cnet.com
Motorola seeking 2.25% of Apple's mobile sales for 3G patent use techspot.com
Antitrust hearing planned for Verizon-Time Warner deals jsonline.com
Hackers wanted $50,000 to keep Symantec source code private cnet.com
Woman fights copyright suit by claiming porn can't be copyrighted torrentfreak.com
Verizon's double data promotion reappears Friday cnet.com
HUD Google Glasses are real and they are coming soon 9to5google.com
EU takes its data privacy seriously; why won't the U.S.? fiercetelecom.com