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Right Question for Germany's Philipp Rösler: "What about the other 30% of German

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  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 Net

U.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 Italy

  50 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, Stupid

Vectoring’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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 Thing

I 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 Unusable

Creating 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

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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"

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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 Homes

First 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

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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 Swisscom

Saving 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 Million

With 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 ??

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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 Bugfix

The 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

Latest Issue
April 1st selected stories
  • The Russians are Coming
  • They're taking over the Internet according to FCC Commissioner Rob McDowell.
  • CEO Frank Esser fired at France's #2 for not dropping prices fast enough
  • Watch What You Say
  • Gigabit wireless working in Sweden
  • Crime blotter: Death penalty in China, Philippine ex-Pres in jail, In U.S., CEOs untouched
  • Gigabit fiber for $35/month in Vermont
  • AT&T - Let them use Satellite Phones
  • Telcos New Profit Center Police and Surveillance
  • iPad 4G works on 10% of 4G networks.
  • Telcos New Profit Center Police and Surveillance
  • “FCC Chairman does what Jim Cicconi tells him too” Commissioner
  • Verizon "Follow your conscience"
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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 Ro

CTIA 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)

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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 Telcos

Kevin 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

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