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News & Views Most Popular Altice USA Nearing Sale of Lightpath Stake – Report By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 7/29/2019 Potential deal with Stonepeak would involve a minority piece of fiber-fueled business services unit and value the Lightpath division at about $3 billion, Bloomberg says. Post a Comment Fiber, 5G or Cable? The Battle for the Enterprise Branch Office By Matt Davis, Founder and Principal Analyst, Independence Research LLC, 7/29/2019 Fresh survey results show that the distributed enterprise market is up for grabs as cable operators, traditional telcos and wireless providers vie for advantage. Post a Comment Charter Shifts Mobile Into Higher Gear By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 7/26/2019 No. 2 US MSO signs up 208,000 wireless customers in the second quarter as it ramps up its Spectrum Mobile sales efforts to full throttle and extends its reach to nearly every type of wireless handset. Post a Comment Advertisement Comcast Broadband, Mobile Growth Engines Keep Purring By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 7/25/2019 No. 1 US cable and broadband provider racks up another strong quarter of steady broadband and mobile sub growth while seeing video sub losses shoot up. Post a Comment SD-WAN Update: 5G Impact Still to Come, as the Market Consolidates By Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Editor, 7/2/2019 In addition to kicking around the idea of 5G's impact on SD-WAN, Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin shares insights on how the SD-WAN market might evolve this year. Post a Comment Charter Shuffles the Top Deck By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/26/2019 Among them, Rich DiGeronimo will add technology officer role as current EVP of IT & engineering as Jim Blackley prepares to retire in 2020. Post a Comment CableLabs Kicks Off Pursuit of DOCSIS 4.0 By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 6/24/2019 New specs will repackage recent annexes and enhancements to DOCSIS 3.1, such as Full Duplex DOCSIS and Low Latency DOCSIS, and add in new Extended Spectrum DOCSIS capabilities. Post a Comment Advertisement 5G Opportunity Still Outweighs the Threat to Cable Ops By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/13/2019 MSOs must remain wary of 5G-powered in-home broadband services, but the backhaul and fronthaul opportunities will abound for cable operators as 5G networks are deployed. Post a Comment Mediacom Joins Cable's Wireless Rush via CBRS Tests With Samsung By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 5/3/2019 Mediacom – the nation's fifth-largest cable company – has joined its cable peers in testing wireless operations in the 3.5GHz CBRS band. What the company might do with the spectrum remains an open question though. Post a Comment Comcast Business Beefs Up Managed WiFi Via Deep Blue Buy By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 5/1/2019 Deep Blue specializes in the planning, engineering and installation of managed WiFi networks for hotels and entertainment venues, and reportedly pulled down $38 million in revenues last year. Post a Comment Charter Exploring 'Dual SIM' Technology By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/30/2019 Charter, which added 176,000 mobile lines in Q1, is testing dual SIM capabilities, but deployments are not expected in 2019. Post a Comment Comcast's Mobile Sub Growth Slows, but Other Mobile Metrics Improve By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/25/2019 Xfinity Mobile adds 170,000 lines in Q1, extending the total to 1.4 million. Mobile-related revenues rose 24.4% while losses shrunk significantly. Post a Comment Leading Lights 2019 Finalists: Most Innovative Business Cloud Service By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 4/23/2019 Colt Technology Services, Comcast Business and Vonage all had stand-out cloud service offerings for business customers in the past 12 months. Post a Comment Cable One Bulks Up With $525.9M Fidelity Buy By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 4/1/2019 But it's not clear how Fidelity's app-based TV streaming offering in partnership with MobiTV will play long-term at broadband-focused Cable One. Post a Comment Why Cable Automation Is Taking Off By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 3/29/2019 Broadband Success Partners' David Strauss shares highlights of his firm's fresh research about the cable industry's growing forays into network automation. Post a Comment Comcast Brings X1 Video to SMBs By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/15/2019 Operator's commercial services unit makes its cloud-powered video platform available to millions of SMBs across Comcast's footprint. Post a Comment Comcast Has 'Line of Sight' to $10B in Biz Service Revenues By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/12/2019 Comcast Business is making some progress in reaching larger, enterprise business customers, cable unit CEO Dave Watson says. Post a Comment Altice USA Taps Goldman Sachs to Assess Lightpath Unit – Report By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 3/8/2019 Discussions involving fiber-powered business services division could lead to a sale or bringing on an investor, Reuters says. Post a Comment T-Mobile Details Home Internet Service to Challenge 'Cableopoly' By Mike Dano, Editorial Director, 5G & Mobile Strategies, 3/7/2019 T-Mobile released more details about plans to challenge Comcast and Charter with a fixed wireless Internet service. But the broader message was aimed at regulators reviewing its proposed merger with Sprint. Post a Comment Cable One 'Happy' to See Broadband Subs Go With OTT-TV By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 2/28/2019 MSO pivoted to a data-centric model 5 years ago, but Cable One 'not trying to drive our video customers away,' CEO insists. Post a Comment More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Atlantic Broadband Gains Franchise in Virginia County Thursday, August 1, 2019 Comcast Business Scores Deal With Kraft Group, New England Patriots Thursday, May 30, 2019 Altice Business Launches 'Smart WiFi' Tuesday, May 21, 2019 Comcast Business Checks In With New Choice Hotels Deal Monday, April 29, 2019 Netgear Intros Multi-Gig Cable Modem Monday, April 29, 2019 Atlantic Broadband Launches Hosted Voice for Business in Virginia Wednesday, April 17, 2019 New Comcast Business Unit Targets US Government Deals Monday, April 1, 2019 WOW, eero Team on WiFi Mesh Service for Biz Customers Thursday, March 21, 2019 Atlantic Broadband Expands Enhanced WiFi Service Areas Thursday, March 21, 2019 Charter Goes National With SD-WAN Tuesday, March 5, 2019 Cox Wins 10-Year Deal With Las Vegas Stadium Friday, March 1, 2019 Cox Business Adds Dubber's Call Recording Services Tuesday, February 26, 2019 NCTC Names Jared Baumann Vice President of Broadband Solutions Wednesday, February 6, 2019 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Nuclear Plant Security Compromised by Financially Motivated Insiders Larry Loeb, Author, 8/23/2019 Equipment at a nuclear power plant in Ukraine was used to mine cryptocurrency. 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