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Mediacom to Introduce 20 Mbps Broadband Tier
09 May, 2008
Update - May 13, 2008 - Mediacom officially announced the new broadband tier described in the original May 9th post described below.
Mediacom announced on their quarterly earnings conference call that they will up their maximum broadband tier to 20 Mbps downstream and 2 Mbps upstream to 98% of their footprint by June 30th. Mediacom joins a plethora of broadband carriers who are raising broadband speeds, with no end in sight. Mediacom says they do not intend to increase pricing for their max broadband tier which is currently $60/month for 15 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up ($75/month as a standalone service). This broadband speed inflation will certainly continue, especially among cable companies who plan to deploy DOCSIS 3.0. While Mediacom is not using DOCSIS 3.0 for this deployment, Comcast has launched DOCSIS 3.0 already. It promises to dramatically increase broadband speeds and introduce other competitive value adds.
Mediacom and Insight to Launch Online TV Guide Listings
17 Aug, 2007
Mediacom and Insight will launch Gemstar/TV Guide’s Listing2Go online television guide application on their respective portal sites. The Listings2Go application is a part of TV Guide’s My TV Guide platform can be customized to present users with programming information for every channel lineup and service provider across the United States or just a certain channel lineup and fixed set of providers.
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Clearwire Outlines 4G World Domination Plans
12 Jun, 2008Clearwire is feeling quite confident these days. The emerging WiMAX provider held an investor conference and outlined their plan for 4G domination. We're "building the communications company of the future, today," says Clearwire CEO Ben Wolf. Clearwire chief strategy officer Scott Richardson calls it "the second coming of the Internet." It was quite the WiMAX pep rally. Clearwire executives say they intend to build a seamless nationwide 4G network way ahead of their competitors, namely Verizon and AT&T.
From a powerpointware perspective, the strategy looks real impressive. Clearwire intends to offer a five product suite of services which will include residential voice and broadband, mobile voice and broadband, and mobile entertainment. They intend to leverage their investor partners considerably, gaining access to tens of millions of existing subscriber relationships immediately. With their cable company partners, they intend to extend the cable entertainment experience "into the palms of consumer's hands." They intend to utilize Google's Android platform for a suite of "compelling" mobile applications. Intel will contribute by powering millions of end user devices and do for WiMAX what it did for Wi-Fi, in effect bringing it to the mainstream. Wolf says that the average consumer's total household spend on communications, ranging from $109-$258, is up for grabs, and they intend to capture as much of it as possible.

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