Quick Hits

SinglePoint Tops Mobile ITV Clicks

Bellevue, Wash. — SinglePoint processed 84% of interactive TV transactions initiated by mobile text message users on AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile in the second half of 2007, according to Nielsen Mobile (formerly Telephia).

SinglePoint, formerly known as Wireless Services, provides outsourced wireless data services to more than 25 carriers. Its content partners include NBC Universal's Bravo, CNBC, MSNBC, Sci Fi, USA Network and Telemundo networks, as well as BET, The CW and Fox.

According to Nielsen Mobile, North American carriers processed a total of 88 million mobile messaging transactions in the interactive TV/sweepstakes category last year.

Broadband Gear Sales Bounce Back

Campbell, Calif. — Sales worldwide of cable broadband aggregation equipment, which includes cable modem termination systems and universal edge quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) devices, hit $199 million for the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Infonetics Research. That's a 13% increase from the previous quarter, the first sequential growth for the category in 2007, according to the research firm.

Infonetics expects the overall cable broadband aggregation hardware market to grow from $860 million in 2007 to nearly $1.4 billion in 2011, as universal edge QAMs increasingly get deployed for DOCSIS 3.0 and switched digital video rollouts.

The research firm said Cisco Systems has the early lead in wideband module shipments for CMTS platforms, and that universal edge QAMs are beginning to ship in volume and will see “significant growth” in 2008.

BigBand Strikes Up QAM Shipments

Redwood City, Calif. — BigBand Networks said it shipped 140,000 edge quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) devices QAMs in 2007, almost twice the 2006 figure.