<![CDATA[ Latest from Next TV in Phones ]]> https://www.nexttv.com/tag/phones Sat, 24 Jan 2015 15:15:00 +0000 en <![CDATA[ Cox WiFi: MVP At Super Bowl XLIX ]]> https://www.nexttv.com/news/cox-wifi-mvp-super-bowl-xlix-387225 8M9pjtiZrbnvMKse6obVye Sat, 24 Jan 2015 15:15:00 +0000

It might be the NFL and Comcast/NBCU’s day, but for those in and around Phoenix for Super Bowl XLIX Cox, Communications will certainly be in play.

The leading distributor in the nation’s 13th largest DMA is the provider inside the University of Phoenix in Glendale, Ariz., site of the NFL championship game. Cox has hundreds of phone lines within the facility, which is managed by Global Spectrum, part of Comcast Spectacor, and will provide pictures via cable video in the venue. NBC has the broadcast rights to what will be the biggest telecast of 2015 and possibly in U.S. TV history.

 Cox officials said in order to better serve the needs of the 78,000 attending the Big Game, it pulled in a new Gigabit circuit, as well as several primary rate interfaces (high-end voice switches).

The MSO is also furnishing additional infrastructure to support a number of the events taking place ahead of the title tilt, and its video signals will be front and center at a number of hotels in the area

But Cox’s best Super Bowl play, though, will come on the WiFi side of the line.

Cox is opening up more than 1,200 hotspots in the Valley of the Sun to the public for free during the Super Bowl XLIX week. It's also continuing to add additional temporary hotspots to high-traffic areas to help keep Valley residents and tourists stay connected.

In addition to its extant WiFi hotspots that are already available to Cox customers, hotspots have been installed at Super Bowl Central in downtown Phoenix, just north of US Airways Center; the Fan Fest  in Scottsdale at Fashion Square;, and in the east and west parking lots, just south of the University of Phoenix Stadium on game day.

Cox said it activated the 1,200 WiFi Hotspots late last year, and additional hotspots are being implemented on a monthly base. The launch came on the heels of the company's announcement that residential gigabit internet speeds are now available in the Phoenix metro area -- Cox's first market in the country to offer residential Gig service. Cox customers can taps speeds 100 times faster than the average speed in the market today.

Cox WiFi hotspots can also be found by entering a user's location at www.cox.com/hotspots. Users can also click on a WiFi icon on the map or download the Cox Connect app for iPhone and Android devices to immediately access directions to or from the specific WiFi hotspot address. Once a user has logged onto a Cox WiFi or cable WiFi hotspot, his or her wireless device will automatically recognize and logon to other Cox WiFi and cable WiFi hotspots for up to two years.

The MSO also will have a presence at the NFL Experience in the "Characters Unite End Bullying Zone." An End Bullying Zone Playbook will be ready electronically on Jan. 23 for students, teachers and parents as a supplement/study guide to flank the "Characters Unite" NFL documentary that will air Friday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. on USA Network. The film will be available Feb. 7 to Cox subscriber via its video on demand platform.

]]> <![CDATA[ Nielsen: Asian-Americans Lead in Digital Viewing ]]> https://www.nexttv.com/news/nielsen-asian-americans-lead-digital-viewing-383820 ridzTDuyA99tRh5QPcSfdJ Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:45:00 +0000

Young Asian-Americans are watching more video on computers and mobile devices than any other demographic group, according to Nielsen’s secondquarter 2014 Cross-Platform Report.

Asian viewers ages 18 to 34 spent 51 minutes a day consuming online and mobile content, defined by Nielsen as digital video, during the second quarter, up from 38 minutes during the same period last year, according to the report. Asian viewers in the demo, however, watched the fewest hours of content on traditional TV compared with other ethnic groups, at just two hours and 42 minutes a day.

African-Americans ages 18 to 34 spent a whopping six hours and 12 minutes viewing traditional TV daily during the quarter, slightly above second-quarter 2013 numbers. The group was slightly behind Asians on the digital- video front, watching an average of nearly 48 minutes a day of content on computers and mobile devices, although that nearly doubled the 27 minutes of average viewing time from a year ago.

Hispanic millennials watched 35 minutes of digital video a day, up from 27 minutes a year prior, while consuming three hours and 46 minutes of traditional TV — slightly below the three hours and 58 minutes watched a year ago.

Overall, African-Americans spent more than 206 hours a month viewing traditional TV in the second quarter, and watched another 12 hours of time-shifted TV. Hispanics viewed 117 hours of traditional TV and more than nine hours of time-shifted content on a monthly basis, while Asians tuned in to 83 hours of traditional TV and nine hours of time-shifted TV per month during Q2, according to Nielsen.

All three groups nearly doubled the number of enabled smart televisions in their respective households versus a year ago. African-American smart-TV ownership jumped from 530,000 during Q2 2013 to more than 1 million a year later, while the number of Hispanics who purchased smart TVs was up from 769,000 in Q2 2013 to more than 1.7 million this year, per Nielsen. More than 900,000 Asian households had enabled smart TVs during Q2, up from 485,000 during the same period last year.

With regard to mobile devices, 82% of Asian-Americans had smartphones capable of streaming video, compared with 78% of African-Americans, 79% of Hispanics and 68% of whites, per the report.

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