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China Telecom promises 35% price drop, (no - see correction) tens of million fi

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Correction 12/15 China Telecom promised a 35% increase in speed without raising prices, not a drop in price. Since speeds go up almost everywhere over time, ... more

Benoit: Data Caps Not the Right Congestion Solution

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Caps don’t correspond sufficiently to peak usage. “Congestion pricing” would be a far more effective tool than data caps, according to an analysis ... 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

Aware's DSL Patents for Sale

Avoid war. Reasonable and non-discriminatory, please. Aware did pioneering work in DSL, including design work crucial to several chipmakers. As DSL chipmakers dwindled ... more

Wireless Cloud

AT&T's Randall & Stankey: Wireless data growth half the FCC prediction

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40%, not 92%-120%  “Data consumption right now is growing 40% a year,” John Stankey of AT&T told investors and his CEO Randall Stephenson confirmed on the ... more

Free Mobile: Paris cloud, Bottoms-Up design, LCHV profit

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Xavier Neil's 20 euro ($27) unlimited voice, data, and SMS deal is drawing a million customers a week to Free Mobile. He's changing the mobile world ... more

Spectrum Efficiency: AT&T's Sensible Argument for the T-Mobile Deal

Massive spectrum waste in small blocks. Combining the spectrum of AT&T and T-Mobile will result in more efficient use of spectrum, AT&T tells Sascha Sagan of ... more

LTE: Timeline for What and When

2012-2014 LTE Speed: Decent 5-15 megabits average, 30-100 megabits peak Capacity: Lousy, only a few hours of TV/month. 2 gig caps would disappear absent market ... more

DOCSIS Report Cable

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

Quick: 1 and 4.5 Gig DOCSIS Explained

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I've been reporting since 2005 that (shared) gigabit cable would come so this is no surprise. John Chapman and Anton Wahlman provided the roadmap at Fast ... more

Fiber News

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

$20 For Verizon 3 Meg Fiber - With Catches

Verizon wants to shut down the copper where it has FiOS, so it's offering a sweet deal at the low end. Karl Bode at DSLR reports ... 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
September
40 IPTV Set Tops, Quantity 3 Million http://bit.ly/pTv5Jr
Recall! Recall! Germany Replacing Speedport Power Supply   http://bit.ly/r9HYi8
Arab Spring, British Spring, China Spring? http://bit.ly/oxPsgx
Fiber Home Turns Profitable in Japan http://bit.ly/pTo25U
Pirate Party Wins 56 Places in North German Election http://bit.ly/nI4nlj
Good Government Work: Very Useful FCC Spectrum Dashboard
Jules Brings Back the Internet Tax http://bit.ly/qCkLQz
AT&T-TM: Why Cicconi Failed or 2 + 2 does not always equal 5
Cawley: Big Telco ABC Plan "Fiction Worthy of James Bond" http://bit.ly/qoFiUC
$5M Of Lobbyists Demand Secrecy for Big Telco Plan Model http://bit.ly/pLTv2h
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“AT&T is going to be fine whether the merger happens or not.” Ralph de la Vega, President
De la Vega has earned a reputation for honesty. AT&T is an extremely able company and will remain among the most profitable on earth. But in D.C. the Big Telcos $10+B subsidy could be derailed because their data is bogus. They also do not have plans to actually build 2 million more broadband homes as they promise. http://bit.ly/qzBYHR. Far too much policy at end but its important stuff   
    I'm rushing for the plane to Broadband World Forum in Paris. There's also a special "state of the industry" report in your mailbox.

*** September 27 Paris Broadband World Forum Noon ASSIA CEO John Cioffi keynotes an extraordinary afternoon of DSL discussion. Featuring AT&T, Belgacom, BH Telecom, Bouygues, BT, DT.  Telekom Polska, Telus, Turk Telecom and others. (ad) See you there. It’s a remarkable program, part of a very strong conference.
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Policy

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

For the record: Dave requests redacted material from FCC

Typical FCC filings are loaded with blacked out "redacted" material. Response and update. I believe how much money is going to what parties should be public. ... more

Story I Missed: AT&T Pays $1.8M for Inadequate Outage Reporting

FCC action went unreported. AT&T has every legal right to not answer reporter’s questions, but does have to tell the FCC about the reliability of their ... more

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