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August 31 Steve Wozniak: Use a Verizon MiFi as Backup for your iPhone http://bit.ly/cscnGY   NZ: Competition in Mobile, Govt. Fiber in Fixed http://b... more

Dane Bringing High Speed, Low Price to California

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Xavier Niel's 30 euro unlimited triple play took 5M customers from France Telecom, transformed the European Internet, and made him a billionaire. ... more

Verizon Turns on ADSL2+ to 1/3

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Verizon has been installing ADSL2+ in most new equipment for years but not offering speeds above 6 megabits because only a small ... more

Lantiq's Latest: 16 Channel VDSL, HD-speed 802.11, 2 Gigabit NP

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Imran Hajimusa of Lantiq demo'd four TV streams going wirelessly across a large room to four HDTV's several months ago. They are ... more

Featured

Editorial: Thank you Commissioner Clyburn

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Mignon Clyburn is staying out of the limelight but providing thoughtful comments. She was particularly cogent at MMTC addressing what really affects broadband costs for poor people. There's a lot of lobbyist's lies circulating in D.C. on this, and she ... more

More Bandwidth For Bhutan

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“Your current bandwidth reading is 953.60kbps” the speedtest at Bhutan Telecom informs me. That's not bad from New York, and is likely to get better with the new deal with Bharti for international connectivity. Bhutan has DSL in Thimphu, Phuentsholing, Damphu, ... more

Moffett: Caps "very likely spell the end of mobile video"

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Craig Moffett (a friend) is a great "big picture" guy, a top tier Wall Street analyst always interesting to read. His job is to help investors find companies with improving profits, not the public and consumer interest. Like most of ... 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 Intel/Micron's new 25 nm flash memory pointing the way not just to smaller iPod nanos but predictable price/performance ... more

$27 Gigabit At Hong Kong Broadband

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Wilson Young made headlines around the world with a $27 (U.S.) price for a gigabit - with a big catch. It is "up to" one gigabit in-country but the speed connecting outside the country is limited to 20 megabits symmetric, bo... 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

Verizon cuts 2010 FiOS by 2M homes

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Verizon recently confirmed they will add 3M FiOS homes in 2010 but have now cut that to 1M for budget reasons. They implicitly also confirmed they are cutting back future FiOS builds as well by 2-4M homes from the original ... more

Cisco VNI: Internet Traffic Growth Rate Falling by Half in U.S.

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In 2014, Cisco estimates Internet traffic growth in the U.S. will be less than 18%, a huge decline from the 42% growth rate they are seeing this year. Worldwide, they measure the current rate at 42% and expect that to ... more

BT Gobbles UK #5, Orange/FT

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840,000 customers aren't enough to sustain a DSL provider in Britain, France Telecom has decided, and has abandoned to BT a network connecting 65% of the population.They instead will resell BT's network. The previous #5, Tiscali UK, ... more

China: 3 Years, $20B, 50M New Users

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China's world-leading pace will continue for the next three years, Chinese Minister Li Yizhong promises. Entering 2010, China led the world with102M broadband lines (Point-Topic) compared to 84M in the U.S. and 32M in Japan. Li has decided China will ... more

Internet & Television

Avatar and Alice 3D Exclusives for Sony and Panasonic

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Audiences loved Avatar 3D in theaters. But if you want to see it in 3D at home be prepared for a big gotcha. Avatar 3D, ... more

YouTube & Beyond: Smart Business, Great Quality, Top Results

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By Jennie Bourne and Dave Burstein Millions of people produce a YouTube video; only a select few get firstrate results and earn a living. We write ... more

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

Policy

"As­sess­ments of es­ti­mat­ed er­ro­neous pay­ments ex­ceed bil­lions of dol­lars".

"Schools and Li­braries (with an es­ti­mat­ed er­ro­neous pay­ment rate of 13.8%) and High Cost Pro­grams (with an es­ti­mat­ed er­ro­neous pay­ment rate o... more

For the Record: Dave on BTOP and Jobs

Harold Feld, one of the half-dozen best in D.C. on most issues, surprised me by saying BTOP is "actually working to create jobs and infrastructure ... more

Good Government Work

Massachusetts' Wired West 30 August 2010  A well-organized regional group has brought together 24 cities to consider a project to extend the NTIA funded backbone to ... more

Google-Verizon Actual Text

A joint policy proposal for an open Internet Monday, August 9, 2010 at 1:38 PM ET Posted by Alan Davidson, Google director of public policy ... more

NTIA's Smart Stimulus Review

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Tamia True's proposal to review the results of the NTIA Broadband stimulus is thoughtful and right on target. If delivered to specification, it will be on... more

For the record: Dave on Blogband about improving the 706 data

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Sharon Gillette, FCC Wireline Chief, blogged about the recent 706 report and asked for "comment on how we can sharpen our analysis and make the ... more

For the Record: Dave to D.C. on Possible Deal

The $2M silver tongues have been meeting with the top of the FCC for weeks to reach a compromise among themselves, with public interest types ... more

The Plan Got it Right: 300 MHz is 10-15 Verizon-Size Networks

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Imagine if five new networks with the capacity of Verizon's were built across the United States. Canadian wireless prices are dropping 10-15% because of ... more

Looking at the US 706 Broadband Report

(Folks. Consider this an unfinished draft. I wanted to get the basic facts out. I posted it as is pending improvements. Ideas welcome.) I discovered ... more

ITU's Odd Wikipedia Page

Dr. Touré certainly does not believe the Wikipedia page for the ITU should read like their pr person wrote it, but that's what I found ... more

Canada: Smart Regulation, not De-regulation

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Canada's CRTC http://bit.ly/ap7a3c isn't as dumb as U.S. regulators who are considering ruling that the law doesn't apply where the telcos oppose it. (Title II ... more

Failure of the Broadband Plan?

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Craig Moffett sees this as I do: “If LTE networks are going to be usage-capped, then the last pretense that LTE can be ... more

New Leaders in D.C.

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Doug Sicker of the University of Colorado is taking over as FCC Chief Technologist after working hard on the plan. A while back I wrote ... more

For the record: Bandwidth Costs

There's no news here because I have already reported all of this, but in the spirit of disclosure I like to report important comments I've ... more

Common Sense: NN Rules Will Make Little Difference For Years

DC's Net Neutrality battles are about precedents and will affect almost nothing in the next year or three. None of the carriers are doing anything ... more

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