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DSL Prime

Telmex: 403K Quarter, 2M Year, 6.4M total

Good growth, finally, in Mexico, with a third more net adds than the U.S. adjusted for population. Prices have been high in ... more

Comcast & Cable Clobber U.S. DSL/Fiber

Comcast added 362K subs in Q3 compared to less than 300K for all DSL and fiber. The major cablecos added 654K to ... more

Hong Kong: US$13 100 up, 100 down

NiQ Lai of City Telecom charges $13 for 100 megabits up and down and has great ads featuring a Lamborghini. They offer ... more

Why all Telecom Marketing and Product management is wrong

Rudolf van der Berg looks at what made Xavier Niel a billionaire and suggests copying Free.fr's simple model. Xavi's 30 euro all-included ... more

Cable/DOCSIS Report

Fiber News

French Fiber Cost: ?$650/home Passed

Xavier Grawitz of Normandy told the D.C. audience that fiber to the home cost them $650 to deploy. Manche Numerique is a ... more

Seattle Fibernet Won't Bankrupt Qwest

New Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn wants fiber to every home,. He's ready to "direct Seattle City Light to build a citywide fiber optic ... more

Fiber Cheaper Than DSL?!

Glen Campbell of Merrill Lynch believes “FTTP now appears to be cost-competitive with FTTN in an aerial overbuild.” Bell Aliant's cost in ... more

100% Fiber Home in Canada

Bell Aliant is running fiber to all 70,000 homes and businesses in Fredericton and Saint John, with the help of a modest ... more

A Wireless Cloud

LTE: Not Big Before 2012

Nadine Manjaro of ABI forecasts 34M subscribers by 2011, nearly none with voice. Verizon is even more cautious, projecting low subscriber counts ... more

3G in Sikkim & Zimbabwe

Sikkim, a semi-independent country until 1975 and now a state within India, is now getting 3G wireless service. All exchanges are set ... more

Craig Moffett From Wall Street: Wireless Prices Should Go Up Through M

Jules may soon have a stark choice: should U.S. wireless prices go up or down? Jules talks a good game about wanting ... more

Featured

U.S. DOCSIS 3.0: 20% Today, 60+% 2010, 80% Soon After

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

Verizon: Voice is Dying

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

AT&T: Five or Ten Million Femtos Across the U.S.

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

How to Create “More” Spectrum

I've been looking at how spectrum can be more efficiently used, some likely to be soon proposed at the FCC. Some ideas: The most obvious is persuading other parts of government to free up some space they aren't using, ... more

Benoit: Fiber Costs $1,000/home, Needs 30+% Takeup For Payback

Benoit Felten has emerged as the most interesting fiber analyst in Europe. His new Yankee Group report suggests takeup, not price, is the key to reaching breakeven on fiber. Since rapid takeup is important, Felten thinks “open access” is a ... more

Doubling Speed: Bonding Is Working and Cheap

Update 9/16 Email below that technical problems seem solved. Original Article. Five years ago, BellSouth CTO Bill Smith pointed to ADSL bonding as the cheapest and easiest way to double speeds. He had 37% unused copper available and his line ... 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

The End of Spectrum ‘Scarcity’

Building on the TV Bands Database to Access Unused Public Airwaves Michael Calabrese, New America Foundation June 2009 The gross underutilization of the nation’s spectrum resource should be an urgent concern for national broadband policy. Spectrum is not only an ... more

Madison River: 99% Rural Broadband, 176K Lines, 2006

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

Schneider's Conclusions: WiMAX Chokes Soon, DOCSIS 160/40 in Trouble by 2015

Mr. Kevin Schneider went to DC to let them know major increases in DSL speed are really cheap (DSM,) doubling is inexpensive (bonding, < $100,) and further increases, beyond 300 meg on 2 pair (short distance, fully vectored DSM) are ... more

Internet & Television

NBC ex-Honcho: Future of TV is Product Placement and Advertiser Conte

Ben Silverman left the NBC cochair job for a new company designed to let advertisers take even more control over media. His money comes from ... more

Tiananmen + Twitter = Tehran?

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

HD Video Delivered: 5-8 U.S. cents per hour (SD – 2-4 cents)

Microsoft, Cachelogic and I demo'ed full 6 megabit HD video over the net at Web Vi... more

Stars, Not Geeks, For Webbys

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 ... more