The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology released late Tuesday preliminary reports on tests of the interference risk posed by devices designed to provide wireless broadband in TV band white spaces. The commission tested prototype devices, acknowledging that they don’t “necessarily represent the full capabilities” that may be developed. Those who support and oppose the use of unlicensed devices in the white spaces were studying the reports at our deadline.
The International Trade Administration has issued preliminary results of an antidumping duty changed circumstances review of wooden bedroom furniture from China. These preliminary results are in response to a joint request from two companies.
The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology released late Tuesday preliminary reports on tests of the interference risk posed by devices designed to provide wireless broadband in TV band white spaces. The commission tested prototype devices, acknowledging that they don’t “necessarily represent the full capabilities” that may be developed. Those who support and oppose the use of unlicensed devices in the white spaces were studying the reports at our deadline.
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping duty administrative and new shipper reviews:
Comcast signed 330,000 broadband subscribers, about the same as a year earlier, executives said during a teleconference with investors Thursday. That figure let down some analysts, who had expected modest growth. Progress lagged as a result of changing technology out of the systems that Comcast acquired last year from Time Warner Cable and Adelphia, executives said. They played down concerns about video competition from Bells. “During those conversions, we added a lot less subs than the year before,” Chief Operating Officer Stephen Burke said. Comcast’s broadband business should pick up the rest of the year, executives said. “The trends are looking pretty strong,” he said, citing preliminary data from July. And Q3 always sees broadband subscriber growth spike, Chairman Brian Roberts said. In another promising trend, Comcast appears to be winning more DSL customers, he said. About 55 percent of new Comcast broadband customers Q1 had switched from DSL. Second quarter, 58 percent of new Internet customers dropped DSL service, he said. Comcast added 671,000 net VoIP subscribers in the quarter. Revenue from its phone business nearly doubled from a year earlier to $420 million, it said. Comcast quarterly profit grew 28 percent year to year to $588 million, it said. Total sales rose 31 percent to $7.7 billion.
Comcast connected about 2.1 million integrated security set top boxes before the July 1 integration ban, since the company made moving those boxes to the field its top priority for the second quarter, executives said during a teleconference with investors Thursday. That was twice as many boxes as it installed first quarter, Comcast said, and four times the number it installed a year earlier, wrote Miller Tabak analyst David Joyce. Emphasis on deploying the boxes pushed Comcast digital penetration to 58.5 percent. However, that intense focus hurt retention of basic video subscribers. “When you prioritize digital as much and have as much activity as we did, that prioritization takes your eyes off other things,” said Chief Operating Officer Stephen Burke. But the emphasis on deploying the boxes will pay off, because new CableCARD-enabled boxes cost up to $50 more each, he said.
Comcast connected about 2.1 million CableCARD-less set top boxes before the July 1 integration ban, since the company made moving those boxes to the field its top priority for the second quarter, executives said during a teleconference with investors Thursday. That was twice as many boxes as it installed first quarter, Comcast said, and four times the number it installed a year earlier, wrote Miller Tabak analyst David Joyce.
Monday’s announcement that Sirius and XM as a merged entity would offer a la carte options to subscribers who buy new radios (CD July 24 p1) “is tantamount to an admission that without such special promises or conditions, the proposed merger would lead to higher prices and fewer choices to the detriment of satellite radio subscribers,” NAB said in reply comments Tuesday at the FCC. XM-Sirius, in reply comments of their own, said NAB’s “scorched-earth opposition” to the merger “is itself powerful evidence of the competition that so obviously exists” in the audio entertainment marketplace from which “terrestrial broadcasters have the most to lose.”
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping duty administrative reviews:
Monday’s announcement that Sirius and XM as a merged entity would offer a la carte options to subscribers who buy new radios (CED July 24 p1) “is tantamount to an admission that without such special promises or conditions, the proposed merger would lead to higher prices and fewer choices to the detriment of satellite radio subscribers,” NAB said in reply comments Tuesday at the FCC. XM-Sirius, in reply comments of their own, said NAB’s “scorched-earth opposition” to the merger “is itself powerful evidence of the competition that so obviously exists” in the audio entertainment marketplace from which “terrestrial broadcasters have the most to lose.”