Unsurprisingly, the young watch less of their TV live. http://tcrn.ch/doUXuL # DOJ smells an anti-trust rat in the online video space. http://bit.ly/bhezyf # Lithuania on-track for FTTH in over 50% of the country. http://bit.ly/cdvQxv # Canada pulls an about-face, mandates open access. http://bit.ly/9VMpBh # Verizon says that FTTN is a dead-end. http://bit.ly/bUNhQZ # FCC asked [...]
As some tipsters had suggested earlier this week, the FCC will be addressing white space broadband at their upcoming September 23 meeting. According to a meeting agenda (pdf) posted to the FCC website, the FCC’s September meeting will focus on the E-Rate program (specifically, letting universities and schools purchase dark fiber directly), some E911 issues, [...]
As we’ve long noted, the FCC has made broadband policy decisions based on flawed and incomplete data for years. Part of the 1996 Telecom Act required that the agency release quarterly reports on the status of broadband deployment. Unfortunately for consumers, that data has always been essentially useless — with the FCC declaring any zip [...]
With approval for a National Broadband Plan being punted around by Australia’s ruling body like a muddy football, a group of network and Internet companies have taken matters into their own hands and published a manifesto calling for a market solution to broadband expansion–not an “infrastructure monopoly.” The Alliance for Affordable Broadband’s open letter, titled [...]
Broadband bundle packages are turning into a buyer’s market as more wireline operators are forced to reduce prices to better compete mobile broadband services. A new Analysys Mason report, which tracked over 1,000 wireline broadband bundles in Europe and the U.S., revealed that wireline broadband bundle (single, double or triple-play package) prices declined about $6 [...]
Australia’s dead-heat election over the weekend has left the early-stage roll-out of a nationwide fiber-optic network in a bind.
Some good thoughts on Net Neutrality from @SenatorSteveU. http://bit.ly/9erXb2 # Verizon is really, REALLY close to doing gigabit on FIOS. http://bit.ly/aqWw3n # Broadband stimulus winners are saying "no thanks" to the money. http://bit.ly/cUpELs (via @CJSettles) # Surprise! Marketed broadband speeds nowhere near the actual. http://bit.ly/bCXWm8 # Need a primer on the state of broadband? InformationWeek [...]
Australia’s National Broadband Network may continue to be the subject of political debate but that’s not stopping it from starting the construction of its ambitious last mile fiber open access network. Among the first of five initial sites to be built out on the NBN is Townsville. In total, the five sites will connect about [...]
According to Qwest’s second quarter earnings, the company added just 7,000 new broadband subscribers on the quarter, down from 40,000 new subscriber additions during the first quarter of this yea, and 33,000 new subscriber additions this time last year. According to Qwest, the company added roughly 52,000 new fiber to the node customers during the [...]
Telecom in a two-horse town: The United Arab Emirates has one of the most advanced markets in the Middle East, yet a restrictive environment means the country has only two operators–Etisalat and du–across all sectors and no foreign investors, Research and Markets points out in its latest study, United Arab Emirates – Telecoms, Mobile and [...]