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• Fewer US Terrestrial TV Viewers After Analog Switch-off: ABI Research Survey

  - 2008-10-22

  NEW YORK -- Analog free-to-air television broadcasting will come to an end in the United States on February 17, 2009. Although many US viewers subscribe to cable or satellite TV services, 15% - a substantial number - still use a traditional antenna. A recent ABI Research consumer survey of...

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• Satellite Operators Will Drive High Growth Rates for the Hybrid Set-Top Box, says ABI Research

  - 2006-09-19

  NEW YORK -- The recent temporary suspension of BSkyB's broadband movie download service, due to the release of a utility that circumvented digital rights management in Windows Media files, has focused attention on a new phenomenon: satellite operators have found a way to offer video-on-demand in competition with cable and...

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• Global navigation satellite system receiver shipments to increase sevenfold by 2011, says ABI Research.

  - 2006-09-01

  Over 40 million Global Navigation Satellite Systems GNSS receivers were shipped in 2005, but in 2011 the market will have grown to nearly 300 million shipments, according to a new study from ABI Research that tracks GNSS markets across eleven vertical industry segments. ...

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• Satellite operators will drive high growth rates for the hybrid set-top box, says ABI Research.

  - 2006-09-01

  The recent temporary suspension of BSkyB's broadband movie download service, due to the release of a utility that circumvented digital rights management in Windows Media files, has focused attention on a new phenomenon: satellite operators have found a way to offer video-on-demand in competition with cable...

  Tags: ABI Research, cable, IP, NETWORKING, satellite, set-top, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• AWS Spectrum Auction Disappointment Will Prompt Satellite Operators' WiMAX Partnerships, According to ABI Research

  - 2006-08-24

  NEW YORK -- DBS operators in the United States have taken an aggressive approach to the Advanced Wireless Services AWS spectrum auction currently being held by the FCC. A consortium called Wireless DBS qualified as a bidder; it includes EchoStar, DirecTV, News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, and Charles Ergen as interested...

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• Fleet Management Systems Are Utilizing a Greater Variety of Cellular and Satellite Technologies, According to ABI Research

  - 2006-08-03

  OYSTER BAY, N.Y. -- Fleet management takes many forms: it can apply to long-haul and short-haul trailer tracking, intermodal trailer tracking, taxis, rental vehicles, public transportation, school buses, and many more. The technologies used to manage such fleets, which are detailed in a new global market analysis study from ABI...

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• AWS spectrum auction disappointment will prompt satellite operators' WiMAX partnerships, according to ABI Research.(MARKET INTELLIGENCE)

  - 2006-08-01

  DBS operators in the United States have taken an aggressive approach to the Advanced Wireless Services AWS spectrum auction currently being held by the FCC. A consortium called Wireless DBS qualified as a bidder; it includes EchoStar, DirecTV, News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, and Charles Ergen as...

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• HD Radio Could Cure US Broadcasters' Satellite Radio Woes, says ABI Research

  - 2006-05-22

  OYSTER BAY, N.Y. -- HD Radio and HD2, also known as multicasting or supplemental audio channel broadcasting, offer a multitude of new opportunities for North American broadcasters faced with fierce competition from satellite radio. According to a recent study from ABI Research, satellite radio has gained more than nine million...

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• Digital Car Radio Standards Battling for Dashboards (Electronic News)

  - 2006-03-06

  Just when consumers have become familiar with new digital radio broadcasting technologies such as satellite radio, even newer protocols are targeting their car radios, says Oyster Bay, N.Y.-based market research firm ABI Research. "This year will bring a significant level of confusion to electronics consumers,"...

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• Regulations and red tape fuel hybrid set-top box markets, says ABI Research.(MARKET INTELLIGENCE)

  - 2006-03-01

  These days it's not just the roads that are full of "hybrids." A new breed of set-top box STB that will receive and decode broadcast video content from satellite, terrestrial, or cable networks and interactive wireline services such as video-on-demand is finding its way into more...

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