DSL Prime
Right Question for Germany's Philipp Rösler: "What about the other 30% of German Dr. Rosler: "How will we get high speeds for the 30% of Germans who can't get cable and Deutsche Telekom probably won't upgrade?" Two-thirds of Germans can ... more |
The U.S. Position: Don't Alter the Rulers of the NetU.S. wants to keep control but do little. The spirit is deregulation, except where U.S. corporate interests make demands, such as counterfeit handbags and Hollywood movies. ... more |
VDSL/Fiber: Tens of Millions of Lines in Germany and Italy50 meg target for 13M homes in Germany, expanding and 30 cities in Italy. 36% of German homes are now served by VDSL, Timotheus Höttges said ... more |
It's the Microfilter, StupidVectoring’s cool, fiber is fast, customer support and maintenance is boring. But bringing down operating expenses may have more impact on broadband economics than exciting technology. ... more |
Wireless Cloud
Virtually unlimited mobile in England from UK Broadband 120 MHz means finding customers, not capacity, is the problem. Philip Marnick has enough spectrum to offer 5-10x the capacity of Verizon's LTE network, probably more ... more |
NetZero: Free 200 meg mobile, $9.95 for 400 meg Must buy $100 MiFi hotspot or $50 USB stick. Carry a 4 oz MiFI and you get 400 megabytes of 4G WiMAX for $9.95 - or ... more |
Cisco Data: No spectrum crunch in 2016 and unlikely in following years Connection speeds will increase rapidly to 6 megabits. Mobile technology continues to improve at a fantastic rate. Speeds are going up incredibly rapidly despite a huge gr... more |
Divide to Conquer: 3 LTE iPhones not 1 model for the world A World iPhone? Fuggedaboutit. There will be separate versions for Asia, Europe & U.S.. Each will work as 3G iPhones while visiting other parts of the ... more |
DOCSIS Report Cable
First look: Comcast's honorable 3 megabits for $10 for the poor David Cohen is on a mission to make broadband affordable for poor families. He has strong backing from his CEO Brian Roberts. He's raised the speed ... more |
Comcast's $10 for Poor Families a Good ThingI respectfully disagree, Karl.You're right about the limits and I am unsatisfied with "back of the bus" slow service. But unlike most of what ... more |
AT&T, Verizon Find Broadband Map Data UnusableCreating the model for the Big Telco Plan for USF/ICC, Jim Stegman found the data in the National Broadband map so unreliable he couldn't use it. ... more |
30-40% Will Pay (A Little More) For Faster Than 10 Megabits Between 21% and 40% of Britain's Virgin cable customers are paying extra for speeds faster than 10 megabits, Merrill Lynch calculates. Virgin charges £13.50 for 10 me... more |
Fiber News
Russia passing U.S. in "fiber" All in the name. Korea’s #1 in penetration if 100 megabits on copper from fiber to the basement is “fiber.” Japan is #1 if only fiber ... more |
CityFibre Fundraising for 1M UK HomesFirst must raise $800M. Goldman and other bankers are looking hard for European infrastructure investments, encouraging both established companies and entrepreneurs to consider ... more |
Telco Supplier Reality: With Capex Down, a Tough Market“Growth Still A Challenge” Nikos Theodosopoulos writes about Tellabs, but he could be writing about almost any supplier to telcos or cablecos. The ... more |
Fiber Home Turns Profitable in Japan Kei Takahashi at Merrill Lynch Japan has a buy on incumbent NTT, a company struggling since 2002. Takahashi believes “growth in IP services such as... more |
Internet & Television
HD TV Over Home Wireless in Everyday Use at SwisscomSaving a $200-$400 truckroll? Vendors have been promising for years video quality wireless around the home, but Swisscom is the first Western carrier to offer a ... more |
$40 IPTV Set Tops, Quantity 3 MillionWith basic IPTV selling for less than $3/month, China Telecom can't afford an expensive set top. To bring prices down, they are requesting bids for 2.83 ml... more |
Cordcutters: Roku, WD, Playstation or ??We made a mistake buying the Roku box. It's great for Netflix, but doesn't play AVI's and other common formats I get often. Dan Rayburn, the ... more |
Progress on Sony Linux BugfixThe Sony Playstation 3 was ahead of its time with a remarkable 8 core CPU so it was welcome news when a way was found to ... more |
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Policy
For the record: Dave to State Department on reducing Internet costs.My comment: Time to get serious about reducing consumer costs, including royalty/patents. By apparent accident, I wound up on a U.S. State Department advisory committee dealing ... more |
Telecom Money for Astroturf Heartland Money: Steve Largent, Jim Cicconi, Mike RoCTIA gives 120K, AT&T $100K, Comcast's Mike Rose a board member. Brian Roberts and Steve Ballmer probably don't believe global warming is a crackpot conspiracy, but ... more |
Found: $Millions in saving from universal service. (?satire) Sandwich Islands lawyer finds strong competition. High-powered D.C. lawyer Rick Joyce of Venable provided a clear case for withdrawing all USF support to his client in ... more |
Multi-Billion ICC Windfall for Big TelcosKevin Martin saw the problem. Follow the money and you discover that the Big Telcos - mostly Verizon and AT&T - net a billion or more ... more |
