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Equipment sales down 12 percent in 2009

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Dell'oro, one of the best analyst firms, reports a 12% decline in access equipment sales in 2009, which they think will only ... more

The Right Questions: Julius and Jose in the Bronx

Congressman Jose Serrano is bringing FCC Chair Genachowski to Per Scholas, a community group in the Bronx 1 p.m. Monday.  I've been ... more

Moore's Law Rolling to 25 Nanometer NAND

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For the last decade, every year someone quotable says Moore's law is dead. It just ain't so. Chip innovation is continuing, with ... more

Bravo, BT: 99% DSL coverage in Wales

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Edmund Hilary trained for Everest at Snowdonia in Wales. Mountains dominate most of the country. The people were so fearsome Offa built a 12... more

Featured

Doubling Speed: Bonding Is Working and Cheap

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Update 9/16 Email below that technical problems seem solved. Original Article. Five years ago, BellSouth CTO Bill Smith pointed to ADSL bonding as the cheapest and easiest way to double speeds. He had 37% unused copper available and his line ... more

Verizon: Voice is Dying

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Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon CEO, saying “voice is dying” is a defining moment in telecom history. He didn't use those words, but his comments at Goldman Sachs are clear “we have to pivot and make a shift from the voice business ... more

Latest DSL Primes

January 27 LTE - 25-45 meg, with problems  http://bit.ly/6YQM7t Vodafone cuts femtos to £50  or free - in advance of iPhone   http://bit.ly/9rVWj6 Price rises cost Verizon 107K DSL subs   http://bit.ly/dhqLBO Vodafone, O2, Bouygues: Emerging DSL Giants   http://bit.ly/buKFq2 British Telecom: $40 for "40" down, 10 up  ... more

U.S. DOCSIS 3.0: 20% Today, 60+% 2010, 80% Soon After

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With word from Cox they intend to do two-thirds of their territory by 2010, I've raised the estimate for 2010 to 75 million U.S homes able to get 50 megabit service DOCSIS 3.0 by 2010-2011, more than half the country. ... more

AT&T: Five or Ten Million Femtos Across the U.S.

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AT&T intends to give ten million femtocells to their customers, creating a wireless cloud across half the U.S. They are only talking trial, but I believe millions have already been approved for purchase unless the trial is very surprising.  Providing ... more

The End of Spectrum ‘Scarcity’

Building on the TV Bands Database to Access Unused Public Airwaves Michael Calabrese, New America Foundation June 2009 The gross underutilization of the nation’s spectrum resource should be an urgent concern for national broadband policy. Spectrum is not only an ... more

Benoit: Fiber Costs $1,000/home, Needs 30+% Takeup For Payback

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Benoit Felten has emerged as the most interesting fiber analyst in Europe. His new Yankee Group report suggests takeup, not price, is the key to reaching breakeven on fiber. Since rapid takeup is important, Felten thinks “open access” is a ... more

Newsbreak: AT&T CTO Donovan: We Need Non-Discrimination

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"Outside applications need to be on an equal footing with our own applications," John Donovan said at a SUPERCOMM keynote here in Chicago. "My jaw dropped," one of his colleagues told me a few minutes later, because this is a ... more

Madison River: 99% Rural Broadband, 176K Lines, 2006

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In 2006, 99% of the 176,000 customers of Madison River, a rural carrier, could receive broadband. 30% were already subscribers. It apparently only cost a couple of hundred per home for the broadband. To see whether they had particularly unusual ... more

Schneider's Conclusions: WiMAX Chokes Soon, DOCSIS 160/40 in Trouble by 2015

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Mr. Kevin Schneider went to DC to let them know major increases in DSL speed are really cheap (DSM,) doubling is inexpensive (bonding, < $100,) and further increases, beyond 300 meg on 2 pair (short distance, fully vectored DSM) are ... more

Internet & Television

Microsoft: IPTV Doesn't Need QOS, Works on Xbox

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"TV/video services powered by Mediaroom 2.0 can be delivered to any broadband consumer, not just to customers on a managed-QoS IPTV network," Microsoft's Scott Rowe ... more

"Hollywood Seized by 3D Mania" but ...

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When I wrote After Avatar, You Must Move On 3D Channels, I had no idea just how powerful the movie would prove. As I write, ... more

After Avatar, You Must Move on 3D Channels

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Jim Cameron's Avatar premieres December 18 and it will open eyes about what 3D can be. The film inevitably won't live up to the hype, ... more

NBC ex-Honcho: Future of TV is Product Placement and Advertiser Conte

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Ben Silverman left the NBC cochair job for a new company designed to let advertisers take even more control over media. His money comes from ... more

Policy

Nellie Kroes' weak stand on broadband almost lost EU Commisionership

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Broadband for all is the goal of the EU, but “the commissioner-designate didn't speak concretely on the social challenge for a guaranteed development of Internet, ... more

US Rules for Australian Unbundling?

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Although the U.S. FCC has killed most unbundling, Primus wants the U.S. Trade Representative to demand stronger DSL unbundling rules in Australia. They are probably ... more

Cheat sheet on the broadband plan (Draft)

I have pulled part of this for the moment. Someone I've known to be reliable for years tells me there are important things I am ... more

High speed affordability dropped from Obama Broadband

I have pulled this for the moment. Someone I've known to be reliable for years tells me there are important things I am missing. I ... more

Blind Leading the Blind

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In D.C. they call it "Beltway Blindness" but the affliction is common elsewhere as well. Folks - especially paid advocates - who don't know the ... more

Rob Curtis' Promise: We Will Get the Facts

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"You might as well help us getting the information," Rob Curtis said to the companies at a broadband workshop. "We're going to get the facts ... more

Policy Gossip

12.06 The FCBA Chairman's Dinner is Thursday December 10 at the DC Hilton. Last time I went, two people pointed out the spot where Ronald Reagan wa... more

Doug Sicker: Ethical Researcher

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Doug Sicker's University of Colorado website reveals he has taken money from IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Sun and a dozen other companies. He shared several ... more

Telstra's Splitup:Why It Matters Internationally

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Nearly every telecom regulator in the Western world now looks like a wimp. Splitting British Telecom in two saves the typical broadband home in the ... more

Editorial: Telcos Must Invest Because VC's Won't

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Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital predicts VC funding may drop in half again. http://bit.ly/iS95Z . AT&T's massive cuts in research a decade ago are probably ... more

Learning

Dogs of all ages can learn new tricks. "We learn," Dr. Alan Egelman told me when I wondered why his recommendation for my blood pressure ... more

Probable Untruths

Getting correct information for policy is important. So I'm compiling examples of what appear to me to be errors. Please research carefully and confirm before ... more

Headline After Headline: Broadband Leaders Have Slower Economic Growth

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Digital Britain and infinite D.C. folk are making claims that broadband has an enormous effect on the economy, as much as 1/3rd of economic growth. ... more

The Failures of Structural Separation

Britain was the great success of separation, leading New Zealand, Australia, and the EU's Viviane Reding to recommend it. Britain went from over-priced to average ... more

Double check

Worth checking again Fiber to the Home Council, claiming cable can't deliver 100 meg. "This approach was used by Senator Rockefeller and Representative Eshoo in authoring ... more

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