iProvo D-Day Arrives with Deafening Silence
The deadline for Broadweave's takeover of iProvo has come and gone without much news or fanfare at all. In fact, other than the phone customers from Mstar, we don't know if any transition has taken...
View ArticleBroadband Bytes: Wednesday Edition
Popular Mechanics has an article about cable companies recompressing DTV signals. It also talks about bit rates and what makes HD look good or not. Hate being forced to rent your cable box? This guy...
View ArticleBroadband Bytes: November 15-21, 2008
Mike just posted a Broadband Bytes, but there’s a few other things that are worth mentioning in the world of telecommunications. Remember how pinched consumers are more likely to drop video service...
View ArticleBroadband Bytes Doubleheader Edition: November 22-December 5, 2008
Between visiting family in Sacramento for Thanksgiving and a business trip to Montreal (where the hotel apparently didn’t believe in reliable Internet service), I got a bit behind on the Broadband...
View ArticleBroadband Bytes: 2008 Wrap-up Edition
Happy New Year! This Broadband Bytes covers from December 20 through the end of the year. The end of 2008 saw even more retransmission battles (in particular the 11th-hour showdown between Time Warner...
View ArticleBroadband Bytes: January 17-23, 2009
Just because Kevin Martin was on his way out the door doesn’t mean he couldn’t make noise on the way. The FCC started checking into Comcast’s network management practices yet again and slammed cable...
View ArticleUTOPIA Video Coming Soon; Prime Time Scrambling to do STB Replacements
Good news out of UTOPIA: the video product will be ready to launch as early as next week. Service providers will reportedly have a list of prices and channel lineups by Saturday in preparation for...
View ArticleUTOPIA Moving Forward in Brigham City
UTOPIA has obtained the approval of Brigham City to move forward with the plan to create a voluntary SAA to provide services to over 1,600 residences. Reports from the meeting were that the crowd was...
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Why is it so hard to get TV on UTOPIA? There’s no money in it
Sourced from Wikipedia Earlier this week, I sat down with UTOPIA to discuss the Macquarie deal and their general operations. One great part of these sit-downs is that I can get candid answers to some...
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