DSL Prime
China Telecom promises 35% price drop, (no - see correction) tens of million fi 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 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 SaleAvoid 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 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 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 DealMassive 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 When2012-2014 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 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 |
Quick: 1 and 4.5 Gig DOCSIS Explained 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 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 |
$20 For Verizon 3 Meg Fiber - With CatchesVerizon 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 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
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 |
For the record: Dave requests redacted material from FCCTypical 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 ReportingFCC 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 |
