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Future Net Needs Fatter Airwaves: Report wired.com Comcast: Too Cheap to Ignore seekingalpha.com 4G Will Not Have Same IP Battles As 3G, says Qualcomm electronicsweekly.com Google bans tethering app from Android Market? cnet.com U.S. Tech Spending to Tank in 2009 [...]

In 2007 Echostar split into two distinct companies, one of which focuses on satellite services (like Dish), and the other of which (Echostar Holdings Corp) focuses on set-top box manufacturing. The company purchased Sling Network to help with the latter half of that equation. This week Echostar is announcing their first HD-DVR that incorporates Sling [...]

Incumbent phone and cable companies have spent years successfully lobbying state lawmakers to pass laws banning towns and cities from wiring themselves — even in cases where incumbents wouldn’t. The laws, usually written by incumbent lawyers, were passed in more than a dozen states without much public debate — though momentum slowed in recent years [...]

According to developers, applications that allow tethering for Andriod-OS-based phones are being pulled from the Android Market for violating the Developer Distribution Agreement. That seems to run contrary to earlier comments by T-Mobile suggesting they wouldn’t really care about tethering applications, and of course runs contrary to Google’s claim of an “open” handset development system. [...]

As I covered yesterday, the native Skype client for the iPhone was released today.
Being both a Skype and iPhone user I grab the new Skype client this morning. Before making any test calls or messages, I decided to give the Skype client a quick “feature spin.”
Skype for iPhone feature overview
After a quick download from the [...]

Well known for their VoIP products, Grandstream has expanded their product offerings with the release of three new products aimed at the fast growing IP Video Surveillance marketplace.
Grandstream will soon be shipping a single port (GXV3501) and 4 port (GXV3504) video server/encoder. Both of these products allow you to IP enable the video feed [...]

Ericsson this morning announced that they’ve broken their own HSPA world record with the world’s first demonstration of HSPA multi-carrier MIMO technology, providing peak downlink data rates of 56Mbps (via router). Ericsson says they’ll be supporting commercial deployment of HSPA gear capable of 42Mbps by the end of this year.
Seeing this speeds first hand [...]

It has been interesting to watch cable industry executives talk about online video lately, few really understanding that broadband and piracy have changed video forever, and that there’s no stuffing the genie back in the bottle. Some execs, like Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, seem to think they can simply take the existing business model [...]

Back when 3G to Wi-Fi routers first started to emerge back in 2005, Verizon liked to grumble about how such devices were against your terms of service, a wireless exec at the time complaining about how EVDO was for a single person, not “an entire neighborhood.” It’s now 2009, such devices are even more commonplace, [...]

American Airlines test of Aircell’s Gogo in-flight broadband service apparently went well, so the airline has decided to expand the service across its fleet. According to the carrier, they’ll be installing the service on more than 300 additional planes, 150 of which will be completed this year. 300 is about half of American’s total fleet [...]

Verizon, AT&T May Tell U.S. to Keep .2 Billion Stimulus Money bloomberg.com Operators Agree To Standardize Marketing informationweek.com Supreme Court refuses to consider Virginia anti-spam law cnn.com LTE to Generate bn in Revenues Within 5 Years juniperresearch.com Ericsson pushes HSPA world [...]

Phorm Launches Korean Trial Despite Concerns in U.K. clickz.com Dell to Get Into the Carrier Game? gigaom.com BBC turns on Sky and welcomes government call to market Digital Britain samknows.com So Only When Piracy Gets Really Bad Will Record Labels Change Their Act? [...]

The other day Charter Communications rather cheerfully announced they’d be filing Chapter 11 as part of a restructuring that will trim about billion from their billion debt load. The “good news” (to use CEO Neil Smit’s words) may not be so good, given the restructuring has annoyed some investors. Little Rock’s Key Colony [...]

Earlier this month we noted how the press seems enamored with the idea that the recession is driving people back to dial-up, even if they lack a shred of data to support the idea. The articles (be they from the Associated Press, Tampa Tribune or Chicago Tribune, who love the idea so much they ran [...]