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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

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

Occam's Vela: We've shipped 100,000 full gigabit ports in the U.S. Upstream gig included

Most customers are only selling the service at 50 or 100 megabits, but the added cost for a true gigabit of active Ethernet is modest. Many of his customers are simply ordering the gigabit now rather than upgrade later, and ... more

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

Rural France, Ireland, Australia, U.S.: You Get Satellite

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France's Natalie Kosciusko-Morizet has allocated 250M euros to satellite while Jonathan Adelstein at RUS has added a dedicated round of stimulus funding. Using satellite for about 1% of homes cuts the cost of universal U.S. "broadband" from $20-35B by about ... more

AT&T Buying Into Femtocells

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AT&T intends to roll 10M femtocells across the U.S. and has now invested in their supplier picoChip, alongside Intel, Samsung and and financial investors. Cisco and ipAccess use picoChip in the boxes they are supplying to AT&T. Vodafone and others ... 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

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

$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

TSMC: 20nm chips in 2012 will do three times as much

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Shang-yi Chiang announced TSMC, the world's largest foundry, expects to enter 20nm "risk production" in the second half of 2012. Volume production at a reasonable cost will likely follow in 2013 or 2014. The most advanced communications chips ar... more

Congressman Serrano Low Speed Lifeline "Absolutely Unacceptable"

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"Is it acceptable that the proposed lifeline broadband program only offer low speeds," I asked Jose Serrano, pointing our the cable and AT&T sponsored plan runs at a tenth the regular speed. "Absolutely not!" the Congressman replied. "Our students need ... 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

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

Julius' Ring

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Ivan Seidenberg and Randall Stephenson should have been on their knees kissing Julius' ring when the Broadband Plan came out. Dozens of their million-dollar lobbyists ... more

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