Broadband Business Forecast articles from August 2007

Broadband Business Forecast archives from August 2007

In-Flight Broadband Taxis To The Runway.
August 7, 2007... Broadband in the sky on commercial aircraft finally looks like it's about to emerge as more than just a rare novelty, previously offered nowhere but on those planes equipped with Boeing's pioneering but financially ill-fated Connexion...

Survey Sez: FiOS, U-verse Elicit Yawns.
August 7, 2007... Consumer enthusiasm for Verizon's FiOS and AT&T's U-verse has barely increased - and in some cases even has fallen - even as the two continue their buildouts full speed ahead, according to a new study by ChangeWave Research. ChangeWave,...

Dems Lament Lack Of 700 MHz Broadband Leadership.
August 7, 2007... Last week's adoption of rules governing the upcoming 700 MHz auction by the Federal Communications Commission may have pleased those with plans that include building a nationwide public-safety broadband network, but the experts involved in...

BBF Update: Cisco's Human Network.
August 7, 2007... Cable operators are watching as their once-tidy video empires are being systematically squeezed by a variety of emerging delivery options, many of them IP-based. Cisco Systems, one of the drivers of these fundamental changes, happily is...

Wi-Fi House Bluesocket Gobbles Up VoIP House Pingtel.
August 7, 2007... Enterprise Wi-Fi house Bluesocket has snapped up open-source VoIP PBX house Pingtel, creating a fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) specialist with more strength to counter market heavyweights Cisco and Aruba. Terms of the acquisition were not...

MoCA Maven Entropic Readies $100M IPO.
August 7, 2007... In-home broadband and broadband access chip house Entropic Communications, fresh from its acquisition of RFMagic (Broadband Business Forecast, April 17), filed papers for an initial public offering (IPO) to raise as much as $100 million in...

People To Watch 08/07/2007.
August 7, 2007... * Raymond Magana has been quickly appointed as president and CEO at Platforms Wireless International Corporation following a San Diego court ruling holding both the company and William Martin, whom Magana replaces, liable for several alleged...

Optical Networking Sales Soar As Wireline Business Slumps.
August 21, 2007... The optical-networking market has just had its best quarter in six years, according to new estimates by research house Ovum RHK. And like a see-saw, where one side goes down as the other goes up, North American wireline capital expenditures...

Satellite TV Marries BPL In Challenge To Telcos, Cablecos.
August 21, 2007... Direct-to-home (DTH) satellite-TV provider DirecTV, perhaps biting the hand that's at least partially feeding it, is getting into the broadband and telephony business, using broadband over powerline (BPL) technology. Its first market will be...

RFMD To Buy Wireless Broadband Chip House Sirenza.
August 21, 2007... RF Micro Devices (RFMD) is buying, and then merging with, fabless chip house Sirenza in a $900 million cash-and-stock deal the two say will create the "world's largest, most diversified and best-positioned RF company," with products that...

Pannaway Buys Into GPON.
August 21, 2007... Pannaway Technologies signed a deal to buy the Access Division of TelStrat International in a move that instantly triples Pannaway's customer base in the Tier 2/Tier 3 market and positions it for a run at market leader Calix. The deal,...

BBF Exclusive: The Great Home BPL Test - What Worked And What Didn't.
August 21, 2007... Broadband Business Forecast Editor Stuart Zipper, after writing about broadband over powerline (BPL) technology for years, decided to risk life, limb and every PC in his house to test the technology. The good news is the PCs all still work,...

People To Watch for 8/21/07.
August 21, 2007... Eagle Broadband President and CEO Dave Micek has "stepped aside" from those titles and is now "working on a series of acquisition and divestiture opportunities that he has been pursuing for Eagle." As such, the company is out searching for a...

Washington, D.C. Lobbyist Spending -- Part One.
August 21, 2007... It's been awhile since Broadband Business Forecast tracked the doings of Washington, D.C.'s K Street gang, so we decided to present how much money wireline and wireless service providers have been spending on influence during the first six...