Broadband data caps were a hot topic this week as Comcast and Verizon Wireless separately talked up upcoming changes to their policies. So how will these data cap tweaks affect consumers? In short, Comcast's move, which increases its existing cap from 250 GB to 300 GB and now offers an overage fee for those who exceed the cap, is likely a positive for its subscribers. Even the consumer advocates who typically hate the idea of data caps applauded the company for improving the policy. 

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By: Michelle Maisto 2012-05-18 Article Rating: star star star star star / 0 There are user comments on this Enterprise Mobility story. AT&T; plans to swallow fewer device costs for subscribers, CEO Ralph de la Vega said during an investors’ call, in an effort to raise revenue. Like Verizon’s CFO the day before, he also spoke of devices sharing data plans. AT&T plans to increase revenue by reducing mobile phone subsidies

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Millions of site owners now have the option of adding video to their workflows, says Brightcove, thanks to newly announced content management system (CMS) integrations for Adobe CQ5, Agility, Atex Polopoly, Drupal, Ektron, Microsoft Sharepoint 2010, PaperThin CommonSpot, Sitecore, and WordPress.

 

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Verizon (VZ) just threw a curveball at Apple (AAPL). The company announced that it would not allow grandfathered unlimited data plans to carry on when customers upgrade into LTE devices. This makes it a whole lot less appealing to make such an upgrade ...

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No deal: Verizon dropped its $30-a-month unlimited data plan last July for new users. Fran Shammo, CFO of Verizon Communications, which owns a controlling share of Verizon Wireless, first revealed the change Wednesday at an industry conference and it was first reported by Fierce Wireless, an online publication. Verizon is expanding the latest generation of its wireless network, called 4G LTE. Customers wanting to upgrade phones from their current 3G data plan to use 4G LTE will be required to si

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Wireless spectrum crunch has become the major issue in the U.S. telecom industry. Carriers are finding it increasingly difficult to manage mobile data traffic, which is growing by leaps and bounds. The situation has become even more acute with the growing popularity of Apple Inc.’s (AAPL Analyst Report) iPhone and Google Inc.’s (GOOG Analyst Report) Android smartphones as well as rising online mobile video streaming, cloud computing and video conferencing services.

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The FINANCIAL -- Cisco announced that Chunghwa Telecom, a leading cloud service provider in Taiwan, enhanced its ‘hicloud' Cloud Server Service with the deployment of the Cisco Unified Data Center architecture. This offers virtual server computing services through a stable, highly secure and reliable network platform, helping enterprises improve IT system and facility utilization, and swiftly and flexibly providing computing resources for enterprises, effectively paving the way for cloud business.

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The Ponemon Institute has released the results of a global study into the risks presented by the use of mobile devices, which they define as including “laptops, USB drives, smartphones, and tablets.” 

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Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today launched support for dynamic content in Amazon CloudFront. This new capability gives AWS customers a simple, cost-effective way to improve the performance, reliability and global reach of their website by using Amazon CloudFront to deliver all their content, including the dynamic portions of their ...

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(Reuters) - Top U.S. mobile operators are turning to a new type of equipment known as small cells to boost network capacity in the face of a shortage of wireless spectrum. With consumer demand for wireless data services like mobile video streaming growing sharply, network operators say they need access to more wireless airwaves soon or they will risk running out of capacity to support their customers.

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