Sports media giant ESPN has talked with at least one large U.S. carrier about subsidizing wireless access to its content, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. These discusions could potentially lead to a “toll-free” data plan with carriers and open up new revenue streams for both parties, says Fierce Wireless. ESPN now [...]
Qualcomm’s chief technology officer, Mat Grob, pitched the idea of small, private cellular base stations this week, showing a base station small enough to be integrated into a set top box or home router. “There really is no alternative,”said Matt Grob, Qualcomm’s CTO, during a presentation at the Qualcomm On conference in Santa Clara, California. [...]
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile carrier, will invest $6.7 billion in rolling out TD-LTE this year, as it builds out 200,000 LTE TDD macro base stations by the end of 2013 and 390,000 by the end of 2014, reports Light Reading. China Mobile is expected to cover over 100 cities in China and purchase [...]
Dish offered to buy Sprint for $25.5 billion in cash and stock on Monday, which Dish says beats the $20 billion offer from Japan’s Softbank. Sprint had accepted the Softbank offer and was expecting to close on it this summer. The Dish deal would create a unique combination of pay-TV and wireless operator. Dish hopes [...]
The Verge says that Microsoft plans to take over the tv set-top with their next-generation X-Box console , in a way similar to Google TV. The next Xbox will require an online connection to use the entertainment services, allowing them to be always-on for streaming and access to TV signals. A cable box signal would [...]
The National Association of Broadcasters which advocates for continued free access to the public airwaves, unlike nearly all other users, is holding their annual show this week in Las Vegas. A growing number of advertising consumers have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV and don’t even use an antenna to get free signals over [...]
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