Monday, January 31, 2005
Mobile Pipeline | WiMAX To Challenge DSL, Cable Broadband
Mobile Pipeline | WiMAX To Challenge DSL, Cable Broadband: "A report released Monday predicts that the controversial wireless technology WiMAX is likely to eventually take its place as a major broadband service-providing platform competing vigorously with DSL and cable broadband."
Municipal Broadband - Alive and Well in Rural Georgia!; Camvera Networks and Navini Networks Continue Expansion of Municipal Broadband
Municipal Broadband - Alive and Well in Rural Georgia!; Camvera Networks and Navini Networks Continue Expansion of Municipal Broadband: "QUITMAN, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2005--The City of Quitman, GA is the latest municipality to add broadband access for the city and surrounding community. The City contracted with Camvera Networks (formerly Tri-State Broadband) to design and deploy their new wireless broadband system, complementing their existing Cable service to residents. "
Illinois Municipal Broadband Communications Association Signs Agreement to Utilize Dark Fiber Along Illinois State Toll Highway Authority Right of Way
Illinois Municipal Broadband Communications Association Signs Agreement to Utilize Dark Fiber Along Illinois State Toll Highway Authority Right of Way: "OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Adesta, LLC, a multi-discipline infrastructure provider and integrator, today announced that the Illinois Municipal Broadband Communications Association (IMBCA) signed an agreement to utilize dark fiber along the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority (ISTHA) right of way (ROW) to provide ultra fast internet connectivity to several of its member cities. The IMBCA is a non-profit group of communities and others that was formed to share information and resources to provide broadband services to their communities. Like other areas of the nation, these communities have felt the effects of the economic downturn, the closing of manufacturing facilities and the outsourcing of jobs. They see the development of a broadband network as a step towards keeping the businesses they have and attracting new business to their communities."
MSNBC - City may seek franchise pact for SBC's broadband video play
MSNBC - City may seek franchise pact for SBC's broadband video play: "Cable television operators must fight efforts by San Antonio-based SBC Communications Inc. to circumvent local franchising requirements and engage in discriminatory practices."
CRN | Breaking News | SBC/AT&T Deal Heats Up Enterprise Market
Sunday, January 30, 2005
ILECs Headed for Extinction, According to META Group
META Group | Tekrati Research News:
META Group analysts predict a telecom market that will soon detangle access from services. In so doing, the telecom market will begin to resemble the software space: traditional network access will become commoditized and the battleground will shift toward applications and services. The result, say the analysts, is a marketplace in which the barrier for entry decreases, if not vanishes all together."
META Group analysts predict a telecom market that will soon detangle access from services. In so doing, the telecom market will begin to resemble the software space: traditional network access will become commoditized and the battleground will shift toward applications and services. The result, say the analysts, is a marketplace in which the barrier for entry decreases, if not vanishes all together."
Yahoo! News - Internet Telephony Takes the Spotlight
Yahoo! News: "One technology promises to harness the power of the Internet for voice communications. Its competitor has been around for a century, and has an industry shorthand that needs two adjectives -- 'plain old telephone service' -- to describe just how boring it is."
Saturday, January 29, 2005
Congress proposes tax on all Net, data connections | CNET News.com
CNET News.com: "An influential congressional committee has dropped a political bombshell by suggesting that a tax originally created to pay for the Spanish American War could be extended to all Internet and data connections this year."
The New York Times > Business > MCI May Be New Belle of the Acquisition Ball
Friday, January 28, 2005
Yahoo! News - Verizon to Opt for Microsoft TV Tech
No-cost Skype strikes chord with businesses | CNET News.com
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Light Reading - Networking the Telecom Industry
Light Reading - Networking the Telecom Industry: "SBC Puts on a Happy Face"
Muniwireless: BellSouth sues to stop Lafayette fiber project Archives
Muniwireless: "It is interesting to note that BellSouth is trying to stop the project on a technicality, not on the merits of the case."
Net telephone fees have users fuming | CNET News.com
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Is Google Eyeing the VoIP Marketplace?
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Forbes.com: Cable could rule if it plays its cards right
MSNBC - Bay Broadband wants to bring high-speed wireless to the rural Eastern Shore
Blueprint: Telco Triple Play
Is 2005 the Year WiMax Gets Real?
Opinion Column from PC Magazine: The Problem with VoIP Phones
Report: Fiber-Deep Networks Could Reach Nearly 50% of U.S. Homes by 2010
Sunday, January 23, 2005
David Kirkpatrick - Fast Forward: Is Internet Video Ready for Primetime? - FORTUNE
Friday, January 21, 2005
Yahoo! News - FCC Officials Say Powell to Resign
News Sentinel | 01/20/2005 | Blanketed with broadband
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Yahoo! News - Cable Broadband to Lose Out Against Telcos -Survey
Yahoo! News: "Europeans will get their broadband Internet connections mainly through upgraded phone networks by 2010, while cable television operators will see their market share decline to 15 percent, according to a survey."
Yahoo! News - Wireless MAN achieves 300Mbps performance
PCWorld.com - Congress to Focus on Telecom Reform
PCWorld.com : "Telecommunications reform, including VoIP deregulation, expected to top 2005 Congressional agenda."
WSJ.com - Internet and Phone Companies Plot Wireless-Broadband Push
WSJ.com : "Several big Internet and phone companies are moving to provide wireless high-speed access to the Internet -- without phone lines or cable -- challenging the dominance of those traditional connections to millions of U.S. homes and offices."
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Yahoo! News - FCC Properly Shielded Cable Broadband - U.S. Gov't
Business 2.0 :: Online Article :: Wireless Report :: Verizon Proves That 3G Is Here at Last
Business 2.0 :: Online Article: "Verizon Proves That 3G Is Here at Last "
Deep Thoughts by Dan Ryan: What exactly is VoIP anyway?
Deep Thoughts by Dan Ryan: "It's a deceptively simple question, but last week's discussion of Covad's new 'line-powered VoIP solution' revealed some confusion."
Newsday.com - Rural broadband needs
Light Reading - Europeans Moan About Broadband Regs
Light Reading: "Due to lack of competitive pressure between alternative access networks and possible regulatory threats on new deployments, Europe's operators have no incentive to invest in a new infrastructure, says the Fibre To The Home Council Europe (FTTH). "
Muniwireless: Nebraska introduces anti-municipal broadband bill Archives
Rocky Mountain News: Blake: Either way, public pays
Rocky Mountain News: Columnists: "If you vote for expensive public projects, you might suddenly find yourself also paying for related costs that you didn't get to vote on and hadn't even contemplated.
Come to think of it, you may pay the latter costs even if you didn't get to vote on the former."
Come to think of it, you may pay the latter costs even if you didn't get to vote on the former."
Company offers 10GB of Net storage, for free | CNET News.com
CNET News.com: "A company called Streamload is offering consumers a free 10 gigabyte online storage locker for multimedia files, potentially raising the stakes for larger companies such as Yahoo and America Online."
The fixed telecoms industry in 2005 - UK
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
WCFCourier.com | OpportunityIowa
WCFCourier.com | The Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier Online!: "The head of one of Iowa's largest telecommunications companies warned Monday that cities and taxpayers could lose big if a network of proposed municipal telecommunications utilities fails."
InformationWeek > WiMAX Certification > WiMAX Certification Delayed At Least Six Months > January 18, 2005
Shedding Light on Dark Fiber
Verizon's New High-Fiber 'Diet' for 19 Eastern Massachusetts Communities
Verizon's New High-Fiber 'Diet' for 19 Eastern Massachusetts Communities: Blazing-Fast Data, Crystal Clear Voice and Video Capability: "Verizon's New High-Fiber 'Diet' for 19 Eastern Massachusetts Communities"
The Best VoIP Investments in 2005
Logical Exchange Launches Global VoIP Service
Logical Exchange: "Logical Exchange Launches Global VoIP Service from $4.95 per Month; Complete U.S. or Canadian Phone Service Over the Internet "
Monday, January 17, 2005
WSJ.com - Overhaul of Telecom Act Faces Difficult
WSJ.com : "Disagreement Among Industries, More-Pressing Issues May Delay Changes to Legislation"
Yahoo! News - WiMax Vendors Look to Mobility
Yahoo! News: "WiMax equipment and component makers announced steady progress on fixed wireless broadband products but looked eagerly to a future mobile WiMax..."
Feature from PC Magazine: Talk Is Cheaper
Comcast raises broadband speed | CNET News.com
CNET News.com: "Comcast will raise its broadband Internet speeds by at least a third later this year--part of its effort to fend off DSL rivals."
Sunday, January 16, 2005
informitv - Interactive TV - Opinion - Broadband television brings true interactivity
MSNBC - Signal Lost
MSNBC - Signal Lost"Internet telephony—digitally transmitted phone calls—could be the Next Big Thing. It's cheaper than the conventional system, and that makes the technology compelling."
Also, visit Jeff Pulver's blog for additional information.
Also, visit Jeff Pulver's blog for additional information.
WSJ.com - Here Comes 3G. Really.
WSJ.com : "'Third-generation' cellular service is finally available -- and spreading."
Infoconomy - Analysis - UK
Infoconomy - Analysis
Fixed and mobile telcos are waking up to the prospect of revenues going up in flames as voice calls are sent over IP networks – leaving customers as the likely winners.
Fixed and mobile telcos are waking up to the prospect of revenues going up in flames as voice calls are sent over IP networks – leaving customers as the likely winners.
Saturday, January 15, 2005
USATODAY.com - Big drives, wide pipes will shift how we watch TV
TelecomWeb
Joseph Laszlo: 10Mbps: The US Broadband Holy Grail?
Comcast expected to raise broadband speeds | CNET News.com
CNET News.com: "Comcast next week is expected to announce plans to raise its broadband Internet speeds for all customers by at least a third later this year, according to sources familiar with the plans."
Friday, January 14, 2005
Turning Wi-Fi Into a Must-Have
Turning Wi-Fi Into a Must-Have: "As new applications and devices proliferate, wireless broadband will become a necessity for businesses and ordinary folks alike "
NE Asia Online
NE Asia Online: "Asia Pacific Broadband Numbers Jumped 50% in 2004, Says Gartner"
Blueprint: Telco Triple Play
WSJ.com - Comcast VOIP Plans Put Pressure On Phone Carriers
Business 2.0 :: Online Article :: Telecom Report :: VOIP Madness Looks Familiar
Comcast Waited to Please Investors
theStreet.com: "Prudential's Katherine Styponias wrote on Comcast's launch of cable modem-based calling, 'The economics behind voice are compelling. We estimate that the capital requirements for adding a voice subscriber to the cable platform are approximately $275 all-in. This includes the cable modem, battery back-up, switch costs and installation. This is roughly half the cost of adding a voice subscriber to a traditional circuit-switched architecture.'"
Fool.com: Intel: Not-So-Secret Agent of Disruption [Commentary] January 14, 2005
Fool.com: "Another gauntlet laid
With many American cities, suburbs, and rural areas dissatisfied with the rate of promulgation of broadband wiring to their schools, businesses, and residents, the threat of legislation makes them once again feel powerless to affect incumbent providers. But municipalities have a new champion, Intel. Earlier this week, Sean Maloney, executive vice president of Intel's Communications group, made public statements in support of launching municipal Wi-Fi networks."
With many American cities, suburbs, and rural areas dissatisfied with the rate of promulgation of broadband wiring to their schools, businesses, and residents, the threat of legislation makes them once again feel powerless to affect incumbent providers. But municipalities have a new champion, Intel. Earlier this week, Sean Maloney, executive vice president of Intel's Communications group, made public statements in support of launching municipal Wi-Fi networks."
For Baby Bells, A Calm Quarter Before the Storm | Reuters.com
Reuters.com: "Analysts estimate the Bells lost roughly 7 million, or about 4 percent, of their lines in 2004. While customers replaced many of those lines with cellular phones, a small number switched to cable operators or independent companies offering Internet-based telephone service.
Industry experts say such voice over Internet protocol, or VOIP, services had about 1 million subscribers at the end of 2004, but are poised to at least double that total this year."
Industry experts say such voice over Internet protocol, or VOIP, services had about 1 million subscribers at the end of 2004, but are poised to at least double that total this year."
Forbes.com: Covad chasing residential VoIP
Forbes.com: Covad chasing residential VoIP: "Covad Communications will trial a line-powered version of voice over IP within the next three months, in hopes of opening up the consumer VoIP market to its wholesale customers. "
Forbes.com: Cisco's Push For VoIP
Covad Starts UNE-L Trials
Covad Starts UNE-L Trials
"Covad adds that, unlike DSL broadband service, line-powered voice access is not distance-sensitive, which means Covad’s network someday will serve 40 percent more customers with basic voice services."
Expect the RBOCs to be raising UNE-L prices any day now...
"Covad adds that, unlike DSL broadband service, line-powered voice access is not distance-sensitive, which means Covad’s network someday will serve 40 percent more customers with basic voice services."
Expect the RBOCs to be raising UNE-L prices any day now...
USATODAY.com - Covad tests VoIP workaround for Bell competitors
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Covad Testing New Local Phone Technology
Covad :
"The VoIP signal is routed over the Internet to a separate facility with a 'soft switch,' which steers the call toward its ultimate destination.
By using VoIP, there's no need for Covad and its partners to lease any of the local Bell's equipment except the actual copper phone line which travels between the central office and a customer's premises."
"The VoIP signal is routed over the Internet to a separate facility with a 'soft switch,' which steers the call toward its ultimate destination.
By using VoIP, there's no need for Covad and its partners to lease any of the local Bell's equipment except the actual copper phone line which travels between the central office and a customer's premises."
Covad to Conduct Trials of Next-Generation DSLAM Technology Supporting New Competitive Choices for Local and Long Distance Service
Covad: "Covad to Conduct Trials of Next-Generation DSLAM Technology Supporting New Competitive Choices for Local and Long Distance Service"
Om Malik: Is MuniBroadband For Public Good?
Forbes.com: Scott Woolley On Telecommunications
Forbes.com: "One scary thing about IP: Everywhere the technology wins, some company's profits disappear. "
The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > For Wireless, the Beginnings of a Breakout
The New York Times : "EVER since cellphones rang their way into the American mainstream in the late 1990's, consumers have heard snippets about a technology called 3G, so-called third-generation wireless systems that are supposed to do everything short of mix the perfect martini."
WSJ.com - Tabs on Tech Column
WSJ.com: "While there's been no shortage of hype over Internet telephony, customers aren't buying it -- literally."
WSJ.com - Intercarrier Comp 'Linchpin' For '05 FCC Telecom Agenda
WSJ.com : "WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission will ease into the New Year with January's public meeting, scheduled for Thursday, centered on presentations from the agency's bureau chiefs rather than new rulings."
SBC To Deploy deltathree VoIP Service
SBC To Deploy deltathree VoIP Service: "For the fiber network, she says, 'We won't start building until late 2005. It will take a couple of years.'"
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
SBC readies Net phone service | CNET News.com
CNET News.com: "SBC inched closer this week to launching an Internet phone service for homes by signing a two-year deal with New York-based deltathree to provide much of the service's nuts and bolts."
From FierceWiFi.com
Carriers intensify battle against municipalities offering broadband
The war between the carriers and municipalities trying to do good by their tax payers continues, with the latest arena being Indiana, which has now followed in the footsteps of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in passing legislation strictly limiting the ability of municipalities to offer free broadband service to the people. Indiana House Bill No. 1148 passed at the behest of the large carriers and contains no provisions allowing municipalities to provide services in the case of customers being overcharged by existing carriers. The new law also makes it illegal for a municipality to roll out better services than those offered by the carriers, even if they are cheaper.
The law, in effect, forces every customer in Indiana to pay whatever their service provider wants to charge, regardless of the quality of service these companies provision -- and then makes it illegal to compete. All telecom companies have to do to prevent a municipality from offering broadband service is to tell the state authorities that, within nine months, they would be offering a similar service. This law thus allows telecom companies to say whatever they want about when they plan to roll out services (without any repercussions if they fail to deliver on their promise). Moreover, even if the carriers do provide service -- a service provider can have only one customer in any city in the state, for as long as they wish -- and thus prevent that municipality from deploying anything to expand connectivity to the rest of the city.
The war between the carriers and municipalities trying to do good by their tax payers continues, with the latest arena being Indiana, which has now followed in the footsteps of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in passing legislation strictly limiting the ability of municipalities to offer free broadband service to the people. Indiana House Bill No. 1148 passed at the behest of the large carriers and contains no provisions allowing municipalities to provide services in the case of customers being overcharged by existing carriers. The new law also makes it illegal for a municipality to roll out better services than those offered by the carriers, even if they are cheaper.
The law, in effect, forces every customer in Indiana to pay whatever their service provider wants to charge, regardless of the quality of service these companies provision -- and then makes it illegal to compete. All telecom companies have to do to prevent a municipality from offering broadband service is to tell the state authorities that, within nine months, they would be offering a similar service. This law thus allows telecom companies to say whatever they want about when they plan to roll out services (without any repercussions if they fail to deliver on their promise). Moreover, even if the carriers do provide service -- a service provider can have only one customer in any city in the state, for as long as they wish -- and thus prevent that municipality from deploying anything to expand connectivity to the rest of the city.
Intel to back broadband role for cities | CNET News.com
Intel to back broadband role for cities | CNET News.com: "Chip giant Intel on Wednesday plans to provide a high-level perspective on the ongoing debate over the role of the public and private sectors in providing broadband services."
Comcast Enters VOIP Market
Comcast : "'Comcast's move should send shivers down the backs of executives at Verizon, Qwest and SBC Communications�the companies most likely to lose landline customers to Comcast,' Silverman said. 'The Baltimore/Washington, Chicago, Dallas, Denver and Philadelphia areas should prove to be serious battlegrounds for the incumbent phone companies.' "
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Light Reading - Networking the Telecom Industry
Light Reading - Networking the Telecom Industry
"Is Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) starting a features war or a price war? That may be the big question following its announcement on Monday that it’s leaping into the VOIP market.
"Is Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) starting a features war or a price war? That may be the big question following its announcement on Monday that it’s leaping into the VOIP market.
New Hat in Phone Ring (washingtonpost.com)
TechWeb | News | Lucent To Bundle Alvarion's WiMAX Family In Its Telecom Platform
Om Malik on Broadband � Indiana jumps on Anti-MuniBroadband wagon
Om Malik on Broadband
Om Malik's blog has an article on another state's efforts to ban municipal networks.
Om Malik's blog has an article on another state's efforts to ban municipal networks.
Skype VoIP threat to Euro telcos | The Register
The Register: "According to research outfit Evalueserve, the European telecoms market is more vulnerable to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers because of per minute tariffs and high roaming charges."
Comcast staring down the barrel of convergence
Monday, January 10, 2005
U.S. broadband A-OK | Perspectives | CNET News.com
CNET News.com: "It's become fashionable to fret about the purported need for a 'national broadband policy,' a concern typically accompanied by laments that the United States lags other nations in adopting speedy Internet connections. "
A look into the future
A look into the future: "Mergers, VoIP, open source, outsourcing to dominate news."
RedNova News - The Fight Goes on, and On
RedNova News: "A LOOK AT SOME OF NETWORKING'S MOST ENDURING -AND CONTENTIOUS - POWER STRUGGLES."
WSJ.com - Comcast Plans Major Rollout Of Phone Service Over Cable
WSJ.com : "Cable companies that have entered the phone business, such as Time Warner Inc. and Cox Communications Inc., have become the most effective competitors to the nation's local Bell telephone giants since they were created by the breakup of the AT&T Corp. monopoly in 1984. Cox, which has been offering phone service for over seven years, has close to a 40% share in some regions, like Omaha and Orange County, Calif."
WSJ.com - Bluetooth, Copper Wire Are Showing New Life
Yahoo! News - New Network Technologies Vie to Carry Video
Yahoo! News - Comcast to Offer Web-Based Phone Service
Yahoo! News - Comcast : "Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable television company, plans to challenge local phone companies by offering Internet-based phone service in 20 markets this year, company officials said."
Sunday, January 09, 2005
WSJ.com - Using Cable For Calls
WSJ.com - Using Cable For Calls: "Time Warner is the country's second-largest cable operator with nearly 11 million subscribers and now has traditional landline telephone service in all 31 of its markets. It says it expects to have more than 200,000 landline phone subscribers by the end of the year, adding customers at a rate of 10,000 a week."
Saturday, January 08, 2005
Weighing In on Municipal Wireless
Weighing In on Municipal Wireless
"Opinion: Kutztown, Pa., thought it was helping private companies set up broadband and wireless services in its market. But a new law could place its future in the hands of providers that previously were not eager to serve it."
"Opinion: Kutztown, Pa., thought it was helping private companies set up broadband and wireless services in its market. But a new law could place its future in the hands of providers that previously were not eager to serve it."
SBC Sees Internet TV on Its Phone Lines
Technology News: Viewpoint: VoIP Here To Stay
Technology News: Viewpoint: VoIP Here To Stay: "The future of VoIP is, to a significant extent, now! What we are witnessing is a virtual revolution in communications technology. In the not-to-distant future, you will, in my opinion, be able to call anyone on the planet at basically local-calling rates."
Friday, January 07, 2005
8x8 VoIP to Go Retail
CableFAX's CableWORLD-Kagan’s Column: Cable Needs to Stay Smart About Its Dumb Pipe
Gates Still Aims for TV Stardom
Gates Still Aims for TV Stardom: "While Microsoft's costly bid to dominate consumers' living rooms has produced few gains, its faith in the strategy are undiminished"
Forbes.com: CES: Verizon launches consumer EV-DO service
Forbes.com: CES: Verizon launches consumer EV-DO service: "
Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, Verizon Wireless unveiled its long-awaited consumer 3G data service, announcing it would begin marketing a gaming, video and broadband media service targeted at the mass market Feb. 1. "
Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, Verizon Wireless unveiled its long-awaited consumer 3G data service, announcing it would begin marketing a gaming, video and broadband media service targeted at the mass market Feb. 1. "
Muniwireless: Battle of Lafayette, Louisiana: the People vs Incumbents Archives
Muniwireless: Battle of Lafayette, Louisiana: the People vs Incumbents Archives: "Here's my problem with the BellSouths of the world. They are acting like the state monopoly that KPN (formerly known as the Dutch PTT) used to be. They do not want competition. They want protection from competition. They are true anti-capitalists. Shouldn't that make fiscal conservatives see red? Isn't that what communism/socialism was about? "
Excellent new article from Muniwireless that nails the "free market" hypocrisy of the incumbent telcos and cablecos.
Excellent new article from Muniwireless that nails the "free market" hypocrisy of the incumbent telcos and cablecos.
Reuters.com - Bells and UNEs
Latest News and Financial Information | Reuters.com: "The Bells argue that the FCC's new rules use a formula for determining competition that forces them to continue leasing lines to business customers in nearly all of their territory at cheap rates, contradicting previous court orders."
Thursday, January 06, 2005
Light Reading - Networking the Telecom Industry
Ultrawideband Shows Its Potential At CES
Networking Pipeline | Vendor Claims It Is Developing Mobile WiMAX System
Networking Pipeline: "Overcoming what many consider a weakness of WiMAX wireless broadband, Alvarion says it will start selling a mobile WiMAX system in 2006."
Light Reading - Networking the Telecom Industry
Light Reading: "The coming WiMax metropolitan area network (MAN) technology looks set to be one of the hot wireless technologies of 2005 -- one that may play a key role in the convergence of fixed and mobile telecom networks."
The New York Times > Technology > Breaking Free of Cable's Stranglehold
SBC goes public with 'U-verse' TV plan | CNET News.com
CNET News.com: "LAS VEGAS--SBC Communications on Thursday formally named its Internet-based TV service 'U-verse,' preparing for its ambitious challenge against the cable industry later this year."
Yahoo! News - Blogs' Power Stretches Far Beyond Politics
Yahoo! News - Blogs' Power Stretches Far Beyond Politics
OK, a bit off topic but a wonderful piece on the enabling power of growing connectivity.
OK, a bit off topic but a wonderful piece on the enabling power of growing connectivity.
BellSouth Initiates Technical Trial of Microsoft TV IPTV Edition
InformationWeek > VoIP > Vonage's VoIP Subscribers Pass The 400,000 Mark > January 5, 2005
InformationWeek: "VoIP provider Vonage says it has signed up 400,000 subscribers for its Internet telephoning service, more than doubling its base in less than six months."
Yahoo! News - Vonage Plans Cordless, Wireless, and Video VOIP
Yahoo! News : "In a series of joint press announcements, at CES, Vonage Holdings Corp. announced a number of new partnerships with leading providers of telephone devices."
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Radioactive: The right role for WiMax - silicon.com
Radioactive: The right role for WiMax - silicon.com: "WiMax, the latest wireless broadband standard, promises to be all things to all men, so how can it gain focus and mature? Anthony Plewes looks at the challenges this technology must overcome and where it fits in the wireless world."
Unstrung - WiMax Guide
Unstrung - The world wide source for analysis of the global wireless economy: "2005 will probably be the year in which WiMax sinks or swims as the next big thing in telecom technology. For that reason, plenty of people are going to need a quick and easy way of getting up to speed on what WiMax is and why it's stirring up so much interest."
Light Reading - VOIP Keeps Fueling Cable Growth
Networking Pipeline | Next-Gen Wireless Will Threaten Landline Broadband, Study Claims
Networking Pipeline | Next-Gen Wireless Will Threaten Landline Broadband, Study Claims: "As wireless data speeds approach 3 Mbps, many users will switch away from landline voice and broadband, a study from ABI Research claims."
Forbes.com: The TV Tussle
Forbes.com: The TV Tussle: "But cable's central product is still television. Even though the industry has been hit hard by competition from satellite providers, new services are giving cable operators hope, promoting revenue growth and growing their subscriber base. The competition's heating up--especially with telecom vendors elbowing for space--but the cable guys aren't giving up."
States battle FCC Internet phone ruling | CNET News.com
CNET News.com: "Minnesota utility regulators will try to overturn a recent federal decision barring states from imposing many of their telecommunications regulations on Internet phone providers, a sign states haven't backed down from their fight to lord over this new, cheaper breed of phone service."
Wi-Fi goes (West) Hollywood | CNET News.com
CNET News.com: "The city of West Hollywood, home of the renowned Sunset Strip, wants to join the growing ranks of municipalities making free wireless broadband available to anyone."
Rocky Mountain News: Cell-phone satisfaction sagging
Rocky Mountain News: Business: "Customer satisfaction with cell-phone service providers remains low - about on par with cable- TV companies and HMOs - and that makes the current wireless merger mania all the more a concern, Consumer Reports said Tuesday."
WSJ.com - Wi-Fi Access to Be Offered in Cars
RED HERRING | Wireless disaster relief
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Business 2.0 :The Rise of a New News Network
Business 2.0 :The Rise of a New News Network
Light Reading - "SBC Sees IPTV Interference"
Light Reading - Networking the Telecom Industry:
SBC's continuing battle with municipalities over franchise fees for video delivery. Interesting that they are claiming last month's FCC decision on exempting Vonage's VoIP offering from state-level regulation as justification for exempting their IPTV offering from frachise fees.
SBC's continuing battle with municipalities over franchise fees for video delivery. Interesting that they are claiming last month's FCC decision on exempting Vonage's VoIP offering from state-level regulation as justification for exempting their IPTV offering from frachise fees.
TheFeature :: Bundle Up, It's Cold Outside
Broadband boondoggle in the making | Perspectives | CNET News.com
| Reuters.com: Bells ask court to speed review of new FCC rules
Latest News and Financial Information | Reuters.com:
Why VoIP offers one of the few rays of hope for competition in the residential voice market...
Why VoIP offers one of the few rays of hope for competition in the residential voice market...
Level 3's VoIP Services Offer Critical E-911 Capability
VoIP Line Shipments Pass the 50 Percent Mark, According to the Eastern Management Group, Inc.
WSJ.com - World's Telecom Cos Developing Advanced Mobile Standard
WSJ.com: "Companies taking part in the project will try to raise 3G communication speeds to those obtained by optical fiber... "
Key VoIP Trends to Watch in 2005 | PwC TelcomDirectNews.com
Wireless Carriers Seek Churn Downturn
World's Wireless Carriers To Supercharge 3G
VOIP to Make Mainstream Move at CES
Monday, January 03, 2005
Broadband Networking >> The 'Other' VoIP: Campus Technology
thestreet.com: SBC Joins the Convergence Crowd
Rocky Mountain News: Qwest VoIP
Rocky Mountain News: Technology: "When Qwest Communications launches its long-awaited Internet phone services to residential customers in Colorado early this year, it will immediately face stiff competition."
WSJ.com - SBC, Dish & Yahoo!
WSJ.com - SBC Commun Announces Joint Venture To Launch Home Entertainment Service For SBC | Dish Network, SBC Yahoo! DSL Customers:
Interesting combination.
Interesting combination.
Sunday, January 02, 2005
WSJ.com - Blog Readership Jumped in 2004
CDN Broadband Log: Report Says DSL Will Grow Faster Than Cable Modems
CDN Broadband Log: "The Content Distribution Industry is Going to Evaporate"
Cable Digital News
Cable Digital News: "Softbank BB Shows Power of On-Demand Broadband Bundles"
Cable Digital News - Bells and Video
DenverPost.com - VoIP might be telecoms' link to revival
DenverPost.com - "VoIP carries the sound of savings for some"
DenverPost.com - New twist for cable
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Commentary: The New Driver In Chipland
Cities Should Control Their Wi-Fi Fates
