| Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Dish Network is giving a new meaning to the term “cord cutter” with its latest pay TV innovation: a set-top box that connects to the Dish Hopper via superfast 802.11ac Wi-Fi. Dish is the first pay TV company to offer 802.11ac but it is not the first to offer a wireless set-top box. DirecTV, which AT&T plans to buy, has a wireless set-top box on the market, as does AT&T itself. Joey is the name Dish uses for its set-top box, so the new box is of course called the wireless Joey. It costs $50, and each Joey client is an additional $7.00. The $50 access point can support up to three clients. In other Wi-Fi news, carriers in the UK may be leapfrogging U.S. carriers when it comes to Wi-Fi calling. For more on that see today’s video below. |
Other top stories: Sprint rolls out 30-day free trial While T-Mobile US offers free iPhones on trial, Sprint is offering a free trial of its network service. … Read More Small cell market continues to search for workable business models RCR Wireless News spoke with Aaron Blazar, VP at Atlantic-ACM, about the challenges for operators moving into the small cell space. … Read More |
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AI infra brief: Power struggles behind AI growth
The IEA report predicts that AI processing in the U.S. will need more electricity than all heavy industries combined, such as steel, cement and chemicals
Energy demand for AI data centers in the U.S. is expected to grow about 50 gigawatt each year for the coming years, according to Aman Khan, CEO of International Business Consultants
AI infra brief: Power struggles behind AI growth
The IEA report predicts that AI processing in the U.S. will need more electricity than all heavy industries combined, such as steel, cement and chemicals
Energy demand for AI data centers in the U.S. is expected to grow about 50 gigawatt each year for the coming years, according to Aman Khan, CEO of International Business Consultants