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Cable Damage Takes West Africa Offline

Cable Damage Takes West Africa Offline

Just a couple of weeks ago, a new cable brought East Africa online. Now, problems with an undersea cable have caused communications disruption in several West African countries – specifically Benin, Togo, Niger and Nigeria.

The damage is to the SAT-3 cable which runs from Portugal and Spain to South Africa, via West Africa, the BBC reports, and in Nigeria it’s taken out around 70% of the bandwidth, forcing companies to use satellite links to keep in touch.

The cable is 15,000 km long, and touches on several West African countries on its route.

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Cablevision Planning 101 Mbps Broadband

Cablevision Planning 101 Mbps Broadband

Cable operator Cablevision has announced it plans to launch a 101 Mbps broadband offering across its entire market beginning May 11. The offering will be prices at nearly $100 per month, and will supplement Cablevisions’s current 15 Mbps offering priced from $45 to $50 a month. The move is seen as a way for the cable operator to ratchet up competition not only with Comcast—which is offering a 50 Mbps option in many of its markets for $140 a month—and fiber-to-the-home services like Verizon’s FiOS and AT&T’s Uverse.

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Death and Destruction in 3D

A couple of weeks ago I wrote on Nvidia’s 3D Vision product, indicated the 22-inch screen I was using was simply not big enough, and ranted on about Warcraft in the low levels. Well, I’ve since picked up a 60-inch, 3D-compliant Mitsubishi DLP TV, taken my character to 36, and what a difference size and level makes.

Let’s chat about World of Warcraft in 3D on a 60-inch set.

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Verizon Loses Customer Switching Suit

Verizon Loses Customer Switching Suit

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has upheld a ruling that prevents Verizon Communications from using competitors’ proprietary information in marketing efforts designed to prevent customers from leaving Verizon services to switch to services offered by the likes of Comcast, Bright House, or Time Warner Inc. Verizon had appealed the initial injunction, arguing it should be allowed to offer its existing customers better deals on phone and other services if they contacted Verizon about “porting,” or switching their services and phone number to another carrier.

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Comcast Quietly Testing Rail Station Wi-Fi

Comcast Quietly Testing Rail Station Wi-Fi

Cable giant Comcast has very quietly launched a pilot program at 100 New Jersey Transit railway stations offering Wi-Fi service to rail commuters. The company hasn’t informed local users about the service, and has described the Wi-Fi offering as a “beta” pilot program that’s more of an experiment than a service offering. Still, if the program succeeds Comcast broadband subscribers might find the company offers them roving Wi-Fi access at key public locations as part of their existing service plan&mash;and that might be a great way to attract and retain customers.

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Monster Has New HD Cables

Monster Has New HD Cables

Monster Cable, partnering with Gennum Corporation, has introduced the first Long Distance Hyper-Speed products for HDMI. Often, long runs of HDMI would not carry the HD signal at a high enough resolution, so that, over longer cable runs, high-bandwidth HDMI signals can be prone to signal attenuation and timing errors, referred to as "jitter," which can cause aberrations in the picture, from streaks and flashing pixels to inaccurate color.

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Repairs Underway on Mediterranean Cables

Repairs Underway on Mediterranean Cables

Operations are underway to repair three undersea telecommunications cables that were damaged in the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend, disrupting telephone and Internet service in parts of the Middle East and south Asia. However, this time the cause of the cable cuts is suspected to be a ship’s anchor, rather than a deliberate act or terrorism or sabotage.

The damage to the FLAG, SEA-ME-WE4, and SEA-ME-WE3 cables occurred late Friday; by Sunday a remotely-operated submarine robot was being used to locate and assess the damage to the cables. It’s possible a ship anchor could have dragged the cables some distance from their proper locations. Once the damage areas have been located an identified, the remote robot will bring the cables up to a repair ship which will repair the damage and then re-lay the cables on the ocean floor.

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IBM Backs Broadband over Power Lines

IBM Backs Broadband over Power Lines

Rural Internet users left out of the loop by mainsteam Internet solutions like cable and DSL may soon have a new option thanks to a deal IBM has hammered out to begin providing broadband over power lines. On Wednesday, the company announced it had signed a $9.6 million deal with IBEC, a broadband-over-power-line (BPL) provider, to begin equipping several rural test markets with BPL technology.

Under the agreement, IBM will supply project management, oversight and training, and IBEC will supply the actual equipment, and serve as the ISP for customers. According to the Wall Street Journal, the companies will work with 13 electricity cooperatives to deliver BPL connectivity for customers across seven states: Alabama, Indiana, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

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GE Partners with Tatung on HDTVs, Content

General Electric has announced the formation of a new joint partenship with consumer electronics maker Tatung called General Displays & Technologies. The new company will produce, market, and service a new line of GE-branded high-definition televisions. However, these won’t be your ordinary HDTVS: they’ll support IPTV via cable, satellite, and fiber right out of the bos, and the company will partner with NBC Universal (in which GE owns an 80 percent stake) to create an “open platform” for delivery of digital content directly to the televisions via the Internet.  Read more...

Appeal Finds Cablevision Remote DVR Legal

Appeal Finds Cablevision Remote DVR Legal

Almost a year and a half ago, Cablevision lost a copyright suit brought by content owners over “remote DVR” service. The basic idea behind remote DVR service is to take hard drive-based video recorders out of cable subscribers’ homes and instead let them set up their recording preferences and store their preferred shows on servers managed by the cable provider. When users want to watch recorded video, it streams to the user’s residence just like any other on-demand programming.

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