Clearwire Loses Customers in Q2, Seeks Funds for LTE

Clearwire reported Q2 revenue of $322.6 million. Retail revenue and other revenue was $191.1 million and retail average revenue per user (ARPU) was a record $47.59. Pro forma wholesale revenue was $102.6 million in the second quarter 2011, or $6.18 in pro forma wholesale ARPU. Consolidated pro forma revenue and pro forma wholesale revenue exclude approximately $16.1 million of revenue related to wholesale services provided by Clearwire to Sprint in the first quarter 2011, and approximately $12.8 million of a $28.2 million settlement amount from...

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Comcast Reports Jump in Business Service, Internet Service

Driven by a 10.3% increase in high-speed internet revenue and a 41.7% increase in business services revenue, Comcast's cable revenue increased 5.6% to $9.3 billion compared to $8.8 billion in the second quarter of 2010. Advertising revenue increased 3.7%, reflecting a slowdown in automotive advertising and lower political advertising in the second quarter of 2011. Monthly average total revenue per video customer increased 8.9% to $137.51, reflecting...

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Clearwire Confirms Plans for TDD-LTE, Sees Capacity Advantage over Peers

Clearwire confirmed its intention to deploy "LTE Advanced-ready" technology in its 4G network while restating its commitment to its existing 4G WiMAX network, which covers approximately 132 million people while serving 7.65 million retail and wholesale customers. The company expects to end 2011 with approximately 10 million 4G customers.Clearwire said the initial LTE deployment will target densely populated, urban areas of its existing 4G markets...

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FCC's Meeting on Aug 9 to Consider Microwave Backhaul Rules

The FCC's upcoming Open Meeting on August 9st will consider amendments to existing rules on microwave for wireless backhaul, including changes to rules for 60 and 80 MHz channels in certain bands. Also on the agenda are a review of foreign ownership policies for aeronautical radio licenses, and a petition from Verizon Wireless and Rural Cellular Corp. to transfer control of certain licenses and spectrum leases. http://www.fcc....

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McAfee Uncovers Operation Shady Rat

McAfee has identified 72 compromised parties that have fallen victim to cyber intrusion and massive data breaches in what is being called "Operation Shady RAT." (RAT is an acronym for remote access tool). The attacks, which have been underway since mid-2006, have been traced by McAfee back to one specific Command & Control server used by the intruders. Intrusions tend to last from one to 28 months, before they are discovered and fixed or till...

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Intel Labs and Carnegie Mellon Univ. Team on Advanced Research

Intel Labs will invest $30 million over five years in two new science and technology centers hosted at Carnegie Mellon University and focused on cloud and embedded computing research.The first Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) forms a new cloud computing research community that broadens Intel's "Cloud 2015" vision with new ideas from top academic researchers, and includes research that extends and improves on Intel's existing cloud computing...

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MobileIron Debuts Connected Cloud Mobile Device Management

MobileIron, a start-up offering enterprise management and security for mobile devices and apps, introduced the first multi-tenant mobile device management (MDM) cloud service to integrate with existing enterprise security infrastructure.The MobileIron Connected Cloud enables IT departments to quickly deploy thousands of smartphones and tablets without sacrificing enterprise-grade security.Enterprises can securely distribute their mobile apps using...

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American Airlines Streams Video with Gogo

American Airlines' entire fleet of 15 Boeing 767-200 aircraft has begun offering Gogo Vision, a wireless service that enables passengers to stream content such as movies and TV shows from an onboard server to Wi-Fi enabled laptops during flight. Passengers do not need to purchase the in-flight Internet service to access the content stored on-board the airplane. However, there is a charge for each movie or TV show viewed. American is the first...

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Dell'Oro: Service Provider Core Router Market Entering the 100G Era

The Service Provider Core Router market is expected grow at double-digit rates over the next four years as service providers around the world upgrade the capacity of their Internet backbone networks with 100 Gigabit Ethernet technologies, according to a recent report by Dell'Oro Group.The report forecasts the Service Provider Core Router market to grow by almost 60 percent to over $4 billion in 2015."We expect 100 Gigabit Ethernet interface shipments...

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