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News & Views Most Popular Charter Hopes to Hit Business Services Bullseye With Bill Archer Hire By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/8/2019 Exec late of Ireland's eir Group and AT&T named EVP and president of Spectrum Enterprise, succeeding the retiring Phil Meeks. Post a Comment Spectrum Enterprise's Gunnar Peters Looks Ahead By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 10/3/2019 Gunnar Peters from Spectrum Enterprise discusses how the company listens to customers and decides what services to offer next. Post a Comment Net Neutrality Is Dead Yet Again By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 10/1/2019 States still have the option of enacting their own net neutrality regulations following today's DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding the FCC rollback of net neutrality rules. Post a Comment Advertisement LR Tackles 5G & the Cloud at Cable-Tec Expo By Alan Breznick, Cable/Video Practice Leader, Light Reading, 9/23/2019 In an industry first, Light Reading will stage two breakfast forums on hot tech topics at next week's Cable-Tec Expo in New Orleans, the first on cable network virtualization and the second on cable's role in 5G. Post a Comment Comcast's New X1 TV Navigation App Means Business By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/27/2019 Following the recent launch of X1 tailored for SMBs, Comcast Business debuts version of a TV app that enables bar and restaurant owners to control up to 16 TVs. Post a Comment Charter Unloads Navisite Unit By Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 8/26/2019 RDX to acquire the managed cloud services company that Time Warner Cable acquired in 2011 for $230 million. Post a Comment 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 Advertisement 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 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 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 More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Newsfeed - industry press releases, curated by our editors Stealth Offers Pop-Up Fiber Wednesday, September 25, 2019 Trash Pandas Minor League Baseball Team Taps WOW for Stadium Services Thursday, September 19, 2019 RDX Completes Purchase of Charter's Navisite Unit Monday, September 9, 2019 Charter Sells Navisite to RDX Monday, August 26, 2019 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 More Newsfeeds		Security Now Don't Get Burned by Your Sophos Firewall Larry Loeb, Author, 10/15/2019 Researcher finds Sophos firewalls can allow net-based RCE without authentication. 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Palo Alto Networks on Expanding in the Carrier/Service ... Infoblox on DNS Threat Index The Netformx Ecosystem Versa Networks on Leveraging VNFs Nuage Networks on Operationalizing SDN Mellanox's New 25/50/100Gb/s Ethernet Products Arista's CloudVision VIEW FULL VIDEO SHOWCASE Prime Reading Don't Put a Cap on Capex Just Yet Mari Silbey , Senior Editor, Cable/Video , 9/15/2016 Vendor forecasts suggest capex spending in the telecom sector is still headed up, ... (4 comments) Leading Lights 2015: The Finalists Ray Le Maistre , Editor-in-Chief , 5/7/2015 Light Reading is proud to announce the finalists for this year's Leading Lights ... (0) All Prime Reading

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