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Analyze This: Seems
Formula One may or may not be for sale ... no matter
News Corp is “interested.” ---
Verizon dropped 109K legacy DSL subs, added 906K wireless subs (against 62K for AT&T), activated 2.2M iPhones, activated more than 500K 4G devices, 192K new FiOS TV subs (FiOS now more than 54% of consumer revenue with 29% penetration and 3.7M subs), 207K net FiOS web adds (4.3M web subs at 33% penetration) and a "neutral" rating from
Citadel’s
Shing Yin and an “underperform” from
Bernstein Research’s
Craig Moffett.
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Rules & Regs: iPhone tracking has caught the attention of legislators.
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Retrans & Renewals: Next up:
Journal Communications (stations in Boise, Fort Myers/Naples, Green Bay, Lansing, Las Vegas, Omaha, Palm Springs and Tucson) and
DISH 04/28.
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Tech:
Time Warner Cable added now wholly owned
NaviSite to its business services division.
• Programming: About those $30 movies,
DIRECTV’s
Derek Chang told
Bloomberg, "We're testing a price point and testing a window in the early days of this product."
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Spectrum:
PC World reports (
here ) on “white spaces” Wi-Fi experiment by Houston’s
Rice U. and non-profit
Technology for All (TFA) funded by a
Nat’l Science Foundation grant.
Ryan Guerra, a graduate student, developed the prototype that automatically shifts from conventional Wi-Fi to white spaces in unused UHF digital TV signals creating an optimal connection.
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