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AT&T adds mobile hotspot to GoPhone; HTC's financials miss the mark and much more...  LTE Broadcast still far off in Europe, but coming into focus
LTE Broadcast technology is becoming more of a reality in markets from the United States to Australia and South Korea. Meanwhile, in Europe, any operator with an LTE network is likely to have this technology on its roadmap, and indeed France's Orange and EE in the UK are two operators with firm intentions to deploy LTE Broadcast. The technology is probably still some way ahead in Europe as operators continue to focus on their macro LTE services launches, but the interest in the technology's potential is clearly there. Special report
 2013 Wireless industry nightmares
It's time to take a light-hearted break from the third-quarter earnings season rush: Just like we did in 2012 and 2011, FierceWireless in 2013 has taken a look inside the minds of some of the industry's top executives to see what really scares them. These nightmares are scenarios that could plausibly come to pass within the next year. Special Report
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Today's Top News 1. T-Mobile adds 1M subs in Q3 as 'uncarrier' strategy keeps rolling
T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS) rolled to another strong quarter of subscriber growth in the third quarter, making good on executives' promises that the carrier would continue the momentum generated by its new no-contract plans, handset upgrade program and aggressive new style.  | | Click here for key slides from T-Mobile's third quarter earnings presentation. | The carrier added more than 1 million new subscribers in the quarter and continued its strong growth in postpaid net additions. As some analysts had predicted, T-Mobile also led the industry for the second straight quarter in net phone subscriber additions, with 643,000. (AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) reported 363,000 net subscriber additions in the third quarter, relying on tablets and smartphones to offset feature phone losses. Of the 927,000 net retail postpaid additions Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) had in the third quarter, the company said 481,000 were phones and 370,000 were Internet devices, including tablets.)
"This is not a one-time blip," T-Mobile CEO John Legere had declared on the company's second-quarter earnings conference call in August, when T-Mobile reported 1.1 million customer additions, including 688,000 postpaid additions. The carrier's new third quarter results seemed to bear that out. Looking to the full year, T-Mobile said it now expects branded postpaid net additions for 2013 to be between 1.6 to 1.8 million, up from its prior guidance of 1 million to 1.2 million. The carrier also now expects the penetration of the Value/Simple Choice plans in its branded postpaid base to be between 65 percent and 75 percent by the end of 2013, up from its prior guidance of 60 percent to 70 percent. Here is a breakdown of T-Mobile's key quarterly metrics: Subscribers: T-Mobile ended the third quarter with more than 45 million customers, an increase of 1.023 million customers from the end of the second quarter of 2013. T-Mobile added 672,000 branded net customers during the quarter, and branded postpaid net customer additions came in at 648,000, which T-Mobile said reflected continued low branded postpaid churn and significantly higher gross additions. The branded prepaid business returned to growth with 24,000 branded prepaid net customer additions in the third quarter. T-Mobile also counted 344,000 MVNO additions and 7,000 M2M connection additions in the quarter. MVNO additions were up 189 percent year-over-year. In the second quarter, T-Mobile reported 678,000 total branded net customer additions for the quarter, including branded postpaid net additions of 688,000 and branded prepaid net losses of 10,000. Analysts at Jefferies noted that branded postpaid net customer additions of 648,000 "are not necessarily remarkable when viewed only in the [quarter-over-quarter] context of 688k in 2Q. The real point here is, of course, that it elevates the 2Q turnaround to something of a trend. After all, T-Mobile US has lost 199k branded contract subscribers as recently as 1Q13, and 530k on average during the prior seven quarters." "We have underestimated both the strength and the sustainability of TMUS' recovery," New Street Research analyst Jonathan Chaplin wrote in a research note. "Subscriber trends have beaten our estimates by a wide margin for the last two quarters and we see these trends continuing into the fourth quarter, helped further by recently launched tablet plans. The news is not all good: ARPU continues to decline at a faster than expected rate as subs move to value plans, and EBITDA remains pressured when you adjust for value plan accounting." LTE: T-Mobile said its LTE network now covers 203 million POPs in 254 metro areas. In October the company completed the previously announced acquisition of 10 MHz of AWS spectrum from U.S. Cellular (NYSE:USM) for $308 million. The AWS spectrum covers a total of 32 million POPs in 29 markets in the Mississippi Valley region, including St. Louis, Nashville, Kansas City, Memphis, Lexington, Little Rock, Birmingham, New Orleans, and Louisville. T-Mobile expects to use the spectrum to bolster its LTE network. Additionally, T-Mobile said it has already combined MetroPCS' LTE spectrum (mostly likely AWS airwaves) in Las Vegas with T-Mobile's network and spectrum, doubling the LTE spectrum deployment and dramatically increasing data speeds for both T-Mobile and MetroPCS customers with capable devices. The company expects to repurpose additional MetroPCS LTE spectrum in other cities, including New York City, before the end of the year, thereby expanding the channel size of T-Mobile's LTE network to at least 10x10 MHz in 40 out of the top 50 markets by year-end. T-Mobile expects to start deploying 20x20 MHz LTE widely next year. T-Mobile now has LTE service in 94 of the top 100 markets and plans to eventually cover 90 percent of the top 25 markets with 20x20 MHz LTE. T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray said that rollout will include "substantial" deployments in 2014, and will be contingent on how quickly T-Mobile can repurpose MetroPCS' AWS spectrum. In trials of 20x020 MHz LTE, Legere said T-Mobile is seeing peak downlink speeds of 147 Mbps and uplink speeds of up to 40 Mbps, though those are likely going to be substantially reduced in real-world conditions. Smartphones: T-Mobile said total smartphone sales, including sales to branded prepaid customers, were a record 5.6 million units in the third quarter, up from 4.3 million in the second quarter and 2.3 million in the year-ago period. In the third quarter, smartphones represented 88 percent of total units sold, up from 86 percent in the second quarter. T-Mobile said this represents a penetration of 78 percent of the total branded customer base, up from 74 percent at the end of the second quarter. T-Mobile CMO Mike Sievert said on the earnings conference call that 15 percent of the company's smartphone sales were Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhones, or around 840,000. That compares to the 903,000 iPhones T-Mobile sold in the second quarter, its first quarter of availability on the carrier. Sievert said T-Mobile could have sold more iPhones in the third quarter, but supplies were constrained at launch for the iPhone 5s and 5c. He said the carrier is working to meet demand now. However, Sievert and Legere said that while T-Mobile is clearly benefiting from having the iPhone in its lineup, its smartphone growth is balanced. MetroPCS integration: On July 25, the company announced the strategic expansion of the MetroPCS brand with the planned launch of 15 new geographic markets--the carrier said it launched more than 1,300 distribution points in these new markets by the end of the third quarter. The company expects to launch the MetroPCS brand in 15 additional markets on Nov. 21, bringing the total number of expansion markets to 30 by the end of this month. The new markets will include Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio; Denver; Phoenix; Pittsburgh and Portland, Ore. The company began selling T-Mobile-compatible devices to MetroPCS customers in the second quarter through MetroPCS-branded distribution points, and the carrier said it has already transitioned more than 1.5 million new and existing MetroPCS customers to the T-Mobile network. ARPU: Branded postpaid average revenue per user decreased quarter-over-quarter by $1.40 to $52.20, down from the $57.35 the carrier reported in the year-ago period. T-Mobile blamed the decline on the continued popularity of its Value and Simple Choice plans, which are cheaper than traditional plans bundled with a discounted handset. Branded prepaid ARPU for the third quarter of 2013 decreased quarter-over-quarter by $0.26 to $35.71 on a pro forma combined basis, the carrier said. T-Mobile CFO Braxton Carter said the company expects to see ARPU stabilize in the second half of 2014. He said eventually the company expects to see 85 to 90 percent of its subscribers move to its Value/Simple Choice plans. Churn: T-Mobile reported branded postpaid churn of 1.7 percent for the quarter, up slightly from 1.58 percent in the second quarter, which T-Mobile said was due to seasonal factors. But that number was down significantly from the 2.3 percent the carrier reported in the third quarter of 2012. Branded prepaid churn was 5 percent in the quarter, down from 5.4 percent in the second quarter and 6.4 percent in the year-ago period. Financials: T-Mobile's total revenues increased by 7.4 percent quarter-over-quarter to $6.68 billion, primarily due to the inclusion of MetroPCS results for the full quarter and higher equipment revenues due to record smartphone sales. Service revenues for the third quarter grew by 8 percent quarter-over-quarter to $5.13 billion, primarily due to growth of the company's subscriber base and the inclusion of MetroPCS results for the full quarter. The company's adjusted EBITDA grew by 6.2 percent over the second quarter to $1.34 billion. T-Mobile reported a net loss of $36 million for the quarter compare to a loss of $7.74 billion in the year-ago period when it incurred a massive non-cash related to the MetroPCS deal. For more:
- see this release
- see this Reuters article
- see this CNET article Special Report: Wireless in the third quarter of 2013
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2. T-Mobile CMO Sievert reiterates 200 MB of free data for all tablet customers
T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS) CMO Mike Sievert said the company stands behind its offer of 200 MB of free data for tablet customers as long as they keep their tablet on the carrier's network. Sievert's reiteration of the offer, which launched Nov. 1, comes after media reports of customer confusion about the plans and how much they really cost. In an interview with FierceWireless, Sievert repeatedly affirmed the idea that T-Mobile customers will get 200 MB of free data for life as long as they keep their tablets on T-Mobile's network, regardless of whatever data plan they have, or if they do not have a separate data plan at all. Sievert said the offer "is for every single tablet on our network," and that it does not matter if customers bring their tablet to T-Mobile or buy one from the carrier. "Every single tablet on the network gets 200 MB of free data every month for life, no strings attached," he said. The T-Mobile executive did acknowledge that "in order to connect a device you need a SIM card," which the carrier charges $10 for. In that sense, the offer of 200 MB of data is not truly "free." "That's a one-time charge to buy the SIM card from us," he said, in lieu of an activation fee. "After that, you don't have to have any billing relationship with us at all," Sievert said. CNET reported that customers were being forced to sign up for a $10 per month "on-demand" data plan. T-Mobile confirmed the issue and called it "simply an executional mistake." "We sincerely apologize for any confusion and inconvenience, and we are working to address the issue, including crediting all customers who were charged," the company said in a statement e-mailed to CNET. Sievert said that "I think the main thing that has caused a little bit of confusion is that some of those customers were erroneously charged $10," when they signed up for a tablet. He said the company is rectifying the issue. T-Mobile's retail and computer operations were just not set up to handle the free data offer, which caused the erroneous charge. "We had a technology glitch and a training issue that caused some people to believe [they were being charged]--and some people to be charged," Sievert told AllThingsD. "That's just not right." CNET also reported that customers who want to take advantage of T-Mobile's no-money-down tablet plan are required to sign up for a $20-a-month plan for 500 MB of data before getting access to the 200 MB of free data. Sievert said it shouldn't be news that customers who sign up for one of the carrier's equipment installment plans are required to have a billing relationship with the carrier. He said the only condition for qualifying for device financing (besides passing a credit check) is that customers have paying relationship with T-Mobile. "As we said on the launch day, and as we have always had on our equipment financing deals, they are for paying customers," Sievert said. "I don't think customers have an expectation that we will finance multi-hundred-dollar devices for free if they don't have a paying relationship with T-Mobile," he said. Existing T-Mobile voice customers with a phone plan can access the 200 MB of free data without signing up for additional plans, as can new customers who pay full price for tablets. Customers can bring in their own T-Mobile-compatible tablets to the carrier. Sievert said existing customers who have a phone plan can qualify for financing on a new tablet, even if that tablet itself does not have a data plan, and only has the 200 MB of free data. Customers who want more than the 200 MB of data can choose from a range of options. For existing T-Mobile voice customers, the carrier offers "always-on" tablet plans that start at $10 per month for unlimited data, including 500 MB of LTE data per month (for customers who are not T-Mobile voice subscribers, that plan starts at $20 per month). Customers can add more LTE data in 2 GB increments for $10 more per month. When customers exceed their allotment of LTE data, their speeds are throttled. Sievert clarified the company's terms and conditions and said that T-Mobile tablet customers who sign up for data plans burn through their passes or data allotments before accessing the 200 MB of free data. Additionally, T-Mobile offers daily passes that include 500 MB of LTE data for $5. The weekly passes include 1 GB of LTE data for $10. Once customers reach the time limit or data allotment they will not be throttled but will simply have their service stopped and are prompted to purchase more data via passes. "People are delighted with this offer," Sievert said, adding that the carrier has seen a positive response in stores since it started offering the iPad Air and the 200 MB offer on Nov. 1. "It's a highly disruptive offer that customers love," he said. For more:
- see this T-Mobile site
- see this CNET article
- see this separate CNET article
- see this AllThingsD article
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3. Interim BlackBerry CEO Chen has turnaround experience, but faces challenges
BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) is turning to former Sybase CEO John Chen to turn around its struggling business as its interim CEO, and will be banking on his history as a turnaround specialist. However, despite his background, Chen faces formidable challenges in reviving BlackBerry, analysts say.  | | Chen | "There is a lot to do," Chen told Reuters in an interview. "There are a lot of challenges or otherwise I would not be interested." Chen also vowed that he would not axe BlackBerry's money-losing handset business. Chen led Sybase from 1998 until SAP bought the company in 2010 and is widely credited with saving Sybase from bankruptcy. Sybase had lost much of its corporate database business to Oracle, IBM and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). Chen helped turn around Sybase's core business, and then moved it into producing software for creating applications, mainly for the enterprise market, for use on mobile devices and to manage wireless networks. Chen will be appointed executive chair of BlackBerry's board and will be responsible for the strategic direction, strategic relationships and organizational goals of BlackBerry. He is coming in following the ousted Thorsten Heins, a company insider who was unable to turn around the firm's sales with its BlackBerry 10 smartphones, which many analysts said were too little, too late. BlackBerry announced Monday it halted its plans to go private in a $4.7 billion deal led by Fairfax Financial Holdings, its largest shareholder, and will instead receive a $1 billion capital injection from Fairfax and other institutional investors. The new BlackBerry chief will not only have to contend with restive investors--who showed their displeasure with the news that BlackBerry would not be sold by tanking the company's share price--but also its customers and employees. Chen has said his turnaround at Sybase was based on rebuilding confidence both inside and outside the company. "You have to build the confidence," Chen told Wall Street Journal in 2005. "Most people jump in and talk about strategy, talk about products--those are important aspects. [But] the most important people whose confidence you need to rebuild is the employees. The second is the customers, then the shareholders. It has to be in that order: If you don't have [confident] employees, the customers will not be well treated, which means they will abandon you, and that will make the shareholders unhappy." Still, Chen will face a daunting task in rebuilding BlackBerry. The company has indicated it plans to move away from the consumer smartphone market to focus on enterprise business, which is Chen's bread and butter, but the firm that once had more than half of North America's smartphone market now has a market share of just 3.4 percent, according to Gartner. "While we maintain our view that a transformation into a smaller, profitable entity is possible, we believe BBRY will go through a difficult transition," Wells Fargo analysts Maynard Um and Munjal Shah wrote in a research note. "We note the strategy has yet to be communicated in detail (with some differing interpretations by media, particularly around hardware) and whether the current strategy will remain in place, be accelerated, etc. BBRY also seems to be struggling with its enterprise vs. consumer identity (focus on Messenger, which we see as more of a consumer application versus its stated enterprise focused strategy)." The analysts wrote that BlackBerry should "aggressively focus on putting BlackBerry email on other platforms (iOS and Android in particular) as we would argue a major part of the company's challenge is coming from the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend." They wrote that if BlackBerry "had the ability to allow enterprises to utilize existing [BlackBerry Enterprise Service] through an iOS or Android app, it would help stem some churn. We believe this is what management should focus on rather than on looking for a monetization strategy on its BlackBerry Messenger." Meanwhile, the Journal notes that Chen's background in advising the U.S. government on international trade issues could be a potential strong suit if BlackBerry decides to consider any international deals. In 2005, Chen was appointed by former President George W. Bush to join the President's Export Council, a national advisory committee on international trade. "BlackBerry right now can be viewed as a binary play," Steven Davidoff, a professor at the Michael E. Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University, wrote in the New York Times. "It will either fail miserably or be a remarkable turnaround. Fairfax's exercise price for these BlackBerry shares is a high premium over the current market price of about $6.90. But if any turnaround plan succeeds, the company will be worth far more. In some ways, the equity here is protection from the low chance of a BlackBerry turnaround."
For more:
- see this Reuters article
- see this WSJ article (sub. req.)
- see this NYT article
- see this The Verge article
- see this AllThingsD article
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4. Verizon launches Ellipsis 7 tablet, though converged service is still in the offing
Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) took the wraps off its rumored Ellipsis 7 tablet, and hinted that further products in the Ellipsis family could be coming. However, the carrier did not explicitly detail any new mobile video, voice and data service--Verizon last month filed a trademark for a new mobile video, voice and data service under the name "ELLIPSIS."  | | Ellipsis 7 | Verizon said the Ellipsis 7, which boasts a 7-inch HD screen, will be available online and in Verizon Wireless stores starting Nov. 7 for $249.99. For a limited time, customers can get $100 off any tablet, including the Ellipsis 7, when purchasing with a new two-year contract, the company said. It's unclear which company makes the gadget or how the device might be related to Verizon's trademarked ELLIPSIS service. A Verizon spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. According to the copyright application filed by Verizon on Oct. 15, ELLIPSIS is a "wireless telecommunications device featuring transmission of voice, data, image and video." Verizon also filed a separate copyright application on Oct. 14 for the brand ELLIPSIS 7, reserving the right to that name for wireless telecom devices, tablet computers and a device that "establishes a local, wireless network" and would have a music player and a still image and video camera. Verizon did note that Ellipsis 7 users can access the Redbox Instant streaming video service, and that the device has a front-facing camera for video chatting. Additionally, the device supports Verizon Messages, an integrated messaging service that lets users to send and receive text messages from their tablet. Interestingly, Verizon noted that the Ellipsis 7 "is the first product from Verizon Wireless in the Ellipsis family," indicating additional products could be in the pipeline. The disclosure of the Ellipsis trademark, which was first reported by FierceCable, came after Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo revealed on the company's third-quarter earnings call that Verizon had terminated its joint innovation venture that it launched with Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks after it purchased spectrum from the major MSOs in December 2011. Shammo suggested on the earnings call that the decision to terminate the joint innovation venture was related to Verizon's recent agreement to buy Vodafone's 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless for $130 billion. Going forward, Verizon will focus on "bringing to the customer the best products available between wireline and wireless," Shammo said. For more:
- see this Verizon post
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5. Sprint MVNO Ting supporting - but not advertising - iPhone 4/4S in beta program
Sprint (NYSE:S) MVNO Ting, which is owned by Tucows, confirmed it is now providing service to Sprint-issued Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone 4 and 4S smartphones. The company described the support as a beta program, which Ting said means that it can provide the service to any new and existing customer but that it cannot promote it or market it on its website. "So far, we are just reaching out to customers discreetly who have indicated that they were waiting to be able to use the iPhone on Ting. We also have documentation in our support section to help folks activate their iPhones," Michael Goldstein, Ting's vice president of marketing, told FierceWireless. Goldstein said the terms of the beta program prevent Ting from advertising its support of the iPhone. "It seems like Sprint and Apple want to be sure that we are doing a good job preventing fraud and rejecting stolen devices, representing the brand respectfully and support customers well," he said. Goldstein said that Ting is supporting all of the features of the iPhone, including visual voicemail and hotspot functions. He said Ting could only support Sprint-issued iPhones. 9to5Mac initially reported on Ting's new support for the iPhone. 9to5Mac also reported that the iPhone 5 would be supported by Ting "soon." However, Goldstein said that "we actually don't know anything about the timing of the [iPhone] 5 just yet." On its site, Ting sells new phones and also allows customers to bring their existing Sprint phones to the Ting service. The company does not currently sell the iPhone, but Goldstein said that "we will lobby to be able to bring or sell the latest iPhones as soon as possible." Ting is one of a large and growing number of MVNOs supported by Sprint. The fact that it is now supporting the iPhone, even as part of a "beta" program, could potentially signal the possibility that other Sprint MVNOs will be able to support the iPhone alongside other Sprint devices. Already Sprint's prepaid brands Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile sell the iPhone. In August Ting reported that it has 25,000 customers and 40,000 devices at the end of the second quarter, and that the business is on track to cross the break-even threshold in the fourth quarter of this year. Ting offers minutes, text messages and data in different buckets. If customers use more than they have paid for in a certain month, they are not charged an overage fee, but instead are bumped up to the next usage tier for that month. Likewise, if customers use less than they had thought they would need, they are bumped down to the next lowest usage tier and will receive a credit on their bill for the difference. Users can continuously monitor their usage via an online dashboard. Tucows reports its third-quarter results Nov. 13, and will likely provide an update on Ting's progress then. For more:
- see this 9to5Mac article
- see this Ting webpage Related Articles:
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Sprint MVNO Zact offers customized data plans, no overage charges Read more about: iPhone
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SPOTLIGHT ON... T-Mobile's LTE network beats AT&T, Verizon and Sprint in latency measurement  Wireless carriers seem to be obsessed the with speeds that their LTE networks can provide now, and will provide in the future. While downlink and uplink speeds are important factors in determining the consumer experience, a less heralded metric is network latency.
Latency is defined as the time it takes for a source to send a packet of data to a receiver. Latency is typically measured in milliseconds. The lower the latency (the fewer the milliseconds) the better the network performance. With all that in mind, we at FierceWireless, with our partner OpenSignal, are aiming to change the focus of how network performance is measured. Starting this month FierceWireless and OpenSignal are reporting the network latency speeds of the Tier 1 U.S. wireless carriers. During the month of October, T-Mobile US' LTE network showed the lowest latency figures, just beating out the latency speeds of AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T), Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) and Sprint (NYSE:S). For the first report, click here. Quick news from around the Web. @FierceWireless: RT@gigaom: EE pilots 300Mbps 4G in London, using LTE-Advanced Huawei router. Article | Follow@FierceWireless > HTC's forecast for fourth-quarter sales came in under analysts' expectations. Article The company also plans to cut operating expenses by around 25 percent. Article > U.S. Cellular continues to struggle through problems with its new billing system. Article > Nokia is reportedly planning to release an 8-inch Lumia tablet. Article > Verizon Wireless is rumored to be preparing to sell Nokia's Lumia 929 with a 5-inch, 1080p screen. Article > AT&T said its iPad activations were 200 percent above what it recorded during last year's launch of Apple iPads. Release > The FCC is considering a plan from Globalstar's to use satellite airwaves for Wi-Fi. Article > AT&T added a mobile hotspot to its lineup of prepaid GoPhone devices, and its plans for the gadget include 250 MB of data for $15 a week or 5 GB of data for $50 a month. Release > Acer's CEO resigned. Article > Twitter increased the prices for its initial public offering. Article > Apple inked a Sapphire supply agreement with GT Advanced Technologies. Article > LG Electronics announced a device loan program intended to encourage application developers to make apps for its phones. Article > Ruckus Wireless said it won its patent infringement case against Netgear. Release Mobile Developer News > Should developers sell apps through the Opera Mobile app store? Feature > According to a new report, the bulk of developers' revenues are coming from free apps with in-app purchases. Article > Don't imitate Apple's approach to dealing with user feedback on iOS 7. Editor's Corner Telecom News > FairPoint Communications reported in Q3 2013 that Ethernet services were once again a major contributor to its overall revenue mix, rising to $16.4 million as retail and wholesale circuits grew 57.8 percent year-over-year. Article Cable News > DirecTV said Tuesday that it added 139,000 net video subscribers in the third quarter. That was a big improvement compared to Q3 2012, when it lost 52,000 customers. Article > Netflix said it plans to add 4K Ultra HD content to its streaming video library next year. The move could have an impact on broadband providers that are members of its Open Connect content delivery network, including Cox Communications, Cablevision and Suddenlink Communications. Article And finally… The wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gave a book about him a poor rating. Article > Virtualization: The OEM Secret to Launching New Devices Faster and Cheaper- Now Available On-Demand How do some OEMs manage to outpace the competition by launching new devices to market faster and cheaper without sacrificing functionality and performance? In this webinar, Red Bend Software will unveil this secret and present how virtualization can bring significant business benefits to smartphones, tablets and connected cars. Register today to view this presentation > Now Available On-Demand- ePMP - Connect the Unconnected This webinar explores the benefits of the new ePMP 1000 solution - an unlicensed, outdoor proprietary RF interface technology that brings reliability and high performance. View Now!
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