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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

Latest DSL Primes

DSL Prime June 22 CenturyLink: Can Copps Bring DSL To a Million More Homes? Brazil Ascending in Q1 Numbers Madison River: 99% Rural Broadband, 176K Lines, 2006 HD Video Delivered: 5-8 U.S. cents per hour (SD  2-4 cents) Watching Iran Century's ... 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

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

Cost of Rural Fiber + TV: $1500, dropping

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(draft) Hiawatha Broadband in Winona, Minnesota pays approximately $800 to pass a home, and another $750 to connect it, including one set-top box, according to an FTTH Council. The rural carrier costs are only slightly higher than Verizon, at $700 ... more

2013: 92% of U.S. 10 Megabit LTE From Verizon

10 megabits to almost every U.S. cellphone, Lowell McAdam promises. In four years, Verizon will bring LTE to 284M pops, 92+% of the country. Scandinavia is on a similar schedule, and I believe most of Europe will have similar announcements ... more

British Lord Cheaper Than D.C. Lobbyists

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Lord Truscott asked 2,000 pounds/day to “'facilitate' the amendment to the Business Rates Supplement Bill on behalf of their client." He would "make sure it is granted." The Sunday Times reporters posing as lobbyists got it all on tape. It's ... more

BT Heavily Throttling BBC, All Video

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Significant error in this story: BT's terms of service explicitly say that streaming video will be throttled to 896K on Option 1 (about 1,000 words in) I was therefore wrong to say this was a change that would allow breaking co... more

Internet & Television

Tiananmen + Twitter = Tehran?

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Gordon Brown told the Guardian “"You cannot have Rwanda again because information would come out far more quickly about what is actually goi... more

HD Video Delivered: 5-8 U.S. cents per h

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Stars, Not Geeks, For Webbys

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The Webby Awards will throw a fancy party June 8 in New York, where you can dress up, meet entertainment stars, and maybe even collect an aw... more

Slumdog: 60% Digital, 40% Film

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Anthony Dod Mantle won the Academy Award, although he shot more than half the "film" on a Silicon Imaging camera. The answer to "film or dig... more

Policy

Headline After Headline: Broadband Leade

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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 ... 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 ... 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 Re... more

EU ?Accidentally Offering Telcos Veto Ov

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A telco can block government aid to a fiber build anywhere they have cable competition, based on the next to last paragraph (below) of the c... more

CenturyTel-Embarq Comments By Dave

Julie, Don, Jennifer, MarcusWhen I read Sam Feder's ex parte, I didn't see anything about extending broadband to most of the unserve... more

Good Government Work

Eshoo's Broadband Conduit Deployment Act If broadband matters - and it does - it's almost criminally negligent to build or rebuild a road w... more

ITU SG5 & The Environment

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May, 2009 ITU Study Group 5 is working on environmental standards. The meeting May 25-29 in Geneva will center on development of study quest... more

Speeches of Hamadoun Touré, ITU Secretar

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Some speeches emphasizing his concerns about climate, development, and other issues. GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR ICT & DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL SEMI... more

Turnaround In U.S. Trade Policy

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Danny Sepulveda has "promised a through review of the USTR policies regarding transparency," likely to transform the U.S. approach to bodies... more

Beyond Indecency: FCC Powers Affirmed

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The Supreme's decision on indecency avoided the first amendment issues, which are profound. The case had been dismissed on grounds the FCC h... more

Burning Booths

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Telcos are rarely public favorites, but I've never seen them protested in the streets. 'Art as Crime, Crime as Art' burn down phone booths a... more

Death of the Telcos

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“We are a wireless company,” Randall Stephenson's first major public comment as AT&T CEO. He decided in 2003 to let the copper phone net... more

Incompetent Censorship

Whether you believe in censorship or not, the incompetence of the Australians points to how hard it is to do effectively. Wikileaks posted t... more

McCormick's Last Stand?

The failure of the USTA-TIA show SUPERCOMM may finally persuade the Bells to fire Walt McCormick, which they have been discussing at least s... more

New Zealand Pushes Out Regulator For Doi

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"The stalking horses for fed-up Kiwi blue chips began ganging up on Paula Rebstock," the Herald's Fran O'Sullivan writes, partly because she... more

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