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Providers utilize LTE, outdoor wireless antennas to deliver cable-like speeds in rural Virginia trial WAYNESBORO, Va. and ENGLEWOOD, Colo., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Following last month's announcement of their intent to co-develop a fixed wireless broadband service, DISH (NASDAQ: DISH) and NTELOS Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: NTLS) have now deployed broadband service in rural Virginia using wireless spectrum in the 2.5 GHz range. Broadband service speeds at the initial test sites are...
More Than $900 a Year in Subsidies For Some Phone Lines? NTLC Says State Subsidized Program Duplicative of Federal Efforts, "Corporate Welfare" for a Few. SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Move over "Obamaphone." Make room for the "OBrownaphone." The embattled California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) is wasting hundreds of millions of dollars a year subsidizing phone lines and phone service even though a federal program already exists to provide the same...
Albregts to discuss alternatives facing the channel in a rapidly changing environment MAHWAH, N.J., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Doug Albregts, President, Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA), a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, has been invited to deliver the keynote address at the June BTA Mid-America meeting, Cruise to Success, to be held June 17-18 in Chicago. At this meeting, Albregts will explore the new landscape facing the channel and what...
Industry leader in broadband access analysis introduces innovative concept in GPON testing RA'ANANA, Israel, June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TraceSpan(TM) Communications [http://www.tracespan.com ], a leader in broadband analysis and monitoring solutions, announced today the release of GPON Tracer(TM) 380, the first and only handheld tester for on-site GPON network monitoring and troubleshooting. GPON Tracer(TM) is the ideal tool for telecom operators' field engineers...
Verizon and Equinix Team to Offer Integrated Secure, Reliable, High-Performance IT Solutions to Customers NEW YORK, June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon and Equinix announced on Thursday (June 13) that Verizon's Private IP service will be available in Equinix's International Business Exchange(TM) (IBX®) data centers located in major markets around the world. As a result, enterprise customers will gain greater access to global communications solutions that are scalable, secure,...
New Water and Dust Resistant Galaxy Smartphone is Built to Withstand Whatever Life Throws Your Way DALLAS, June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- With summer in full swing, you need a phone that can go just about anywhere and endure the demands of an active lifestyle. To help you keep up with whatever comes your way, AT&T* and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile) announce the Samsung Galaxy S® 4 Active(TM), an evolution of the popular Galaxy S® 4 designed to withstand...
Wireless LAN Growth Rate Outstripped Campus Ethernet Switching By Over Three-to-One REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report by Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries reveals that the Enterprise Edge market reached $3.3 billion in the first quarter 2013. Enterprise Edge is the part of the communications market that includes enterprise-class wireless LAN (WLAN) and campus Ethernet...
Lower prices mean more affordable access for schools and nonprofits NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mobile Beacon (www.mobilebeacon.org), a provider of low-cost, 4G mobile broadband service to schools and nonprofits around the country, has lowered its prices on all 4G modems and hotspots. On average, this will result in a 33% cost reduction on 4G devices for nonprofit organizations. The savings come because of lower prices from Mobile Beacon's...
ACT customers and partners can now access robust end-to-end video conferencing portfolio LAKEWOOD, Colo., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ACT Conferencing, a global leader in integrated conferencing solutions, today announced it is bundling Polycom video conferencing hardware into its managed services portfolio, giving it the ability to offer a complete end-to-end conferencing experience, customizable to each user's specific business needs. The addition of Polycom end points...
Libero SoC Software with System Builder Design Tool Accelerates SmartFusion2 Adoption and Customers' Time-to-market ALISO VIEJO, Calif., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced SmartFusion®2 SoC FPGA users can now benefit from its newly released design tool, System Builder. System Builder is a powerful new design tool within the...
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Image Caption: Front and back view of the HTC One S. Credit: APPER/Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0, 2.5, 2.0 and 1.0) The HTC One S, first unveiled on February 26, 2012, and released for sale on April 2, 2012, is a premium smartphone using the T-Mobile and Telus networks. It runs on the Android 4.0 operating system. It has a 4.3-inch screen and uses the energy efficient PenTile Matrix pixel display for longer battery life and a thinner screen. Features: The phone has an aluminum unibody...
An internet service provider or ISP is an organization or company that provides access to the internet through copper wires, phone lines, wireless, or fiber-optic cables. There are two types of ISPs, hosting and transit. The hosting ISP is like a co-location center where it will lease server space to people and smaller businesses. The transit ISP provides a large amount of bandwidth to connect hosting ISPs to access ISPs. The ISP can be community owned providing the service as non-profit...
Wi-Fi, a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance, is not a technical term; however, the Alliance has used the term to describe only a narrow range of connectivity technologies including wireless local are network as well as PAN, LAN, and WAN. "IEEE 802.11", the technical term, has been used interchangeably with Wi-Fi even though Wi-Fi has become a superset of IEEE 802.11 over the past few years. It is used by over 700 million people and there are over 750,000 hotspots and around 800 million new Wi-Fi...
A transistor, made of a solid piece of semiconductor material, is a semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals. It has at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of transistor's terminals changes the current flowing through another pair of terminals. The transistor amplifies the signal since the controlled power can be much more than the controlling power. The transistor is a fundamental building block of...
A remote control is an electronic device that can operate another piece of electronic equipment wirelessly from a short line-of-sight distance. Although it goes by many names, it is most commonly called the remote. They are usually small wireless handheld objects with various buttons and settings. Most of the time, the remote contains a much larger majority of controls than the small amount of primary controls the device itself has. Remotes communicate either through infrared or radio...
