Isen |
November 23rd, 2008 |
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Here's a big idea.The customer-centric view is that the connection between the home and the Internet is the FIRST mile. So it seems obvious that the new frame should be FFTH -- Fiber From The Home -- rather than FTTH. Then the home owner can take his business to various [...]
Isen |
November 23rd, 2008 |
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Doc Searls has an essay about bringing fiber optics to every home in America. It is aimed in the right direction, but makes a couple of mistakes on the numbers and falls to ground way short of its target. It troubles me that I appear to be the sole source [...]
Andy Abramson |
November 7th, 2008 |
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AT&T; made a very strategic acquisition today, picking up Wayport for a col $275 million. This is a very smart move and shows that AT&T; is investing to put more traffic onto its IP network, and also is looking beyond 3G and traditional GSM as the only access routes, beyond [...]
"Priceless" is not an overstatement of the value of the radio spectrum opened for free, unlicensed use by the Federal Communications Commission order on TV white spaces. Literally, this spectrum is priceless because no one has to buy a license to use it – just like the spectrum we all [...]
GigaOM |
November 5th, 2008 |
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The votes have been cast, the winners and losers have spoken, and the euphoria of yesterday will now give way to the realization that a lot of hard work lies ahead. We're not talking about the U.S. presidential race, but the even longer slog to use the spectrum between digital [...]
GigaOM |
November 4th, 2008 |
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Following in the footsteps of Time Warner Cable, Frontier Communications and several UK Internet service providers, AT&T unveiled a tiered broadband service in Reno, Nev., on Nov. 1. According to a Friday filing with the Federal Communication Commission, AT&T executives met with the legal adviser to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin [...]
Andy Abramson |
October 27th, 2008 |
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Pal Paul Kapustka has his second WiMax report out and it's a goodie. It's a consumers' guide to WiMax. From Paul: – What the technology called “WiMax” is, and how it differs from home broadband services like DSL and cable modem, or cellular wireless data – How its ability to [...]
GigaOM |
October 24th, 2008 |
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Click for full size image In Japan and South Korea, fiber-based consumer broadband connections now represent the most popular Internet access technology, ahead of DSL and cable, according to a report issued by OECD earlier today. Around 45 percent of connections in Japan use fiber, while in Korea that number [...]
Andy Abramson |
October 16th, 2008 |
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I have to credit TMC's Greg Galitzine with finding this story yesterday about the growth of residential VoIP. What's becoming obvious and what has been for some time is that the baby Bells are really chasing the cable guys in moving their customers to VoIP. And the reason is they [...]
Isen |
October 10th, 2008 |
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When I read Geoff Daily's most recent blog posting, I realized that his misunderstanding of network neutrality came, in part, from a lack of appreciation of option value. [Here's my previous post on Geoff's take.]Now, let me declare right up front, Geoff is a great guy, and a true friend. [...]
GigaOM |
October 9th, 2008 |
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Our big NewTeeVee Live conference is fast approaching - Nov. 13, just a month away! - and we've got a sizzling hot line-up. Check out the newest additions to our speaker list: - Alexis Rapo, who heads ABC.com - Michael Buckley, breakout star of web show "What the Buck" - [...]
Andy Abramson |
October 8th, 2008 |
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First it was the cable guys selling you the "Triple Play" of voice, video and data. Then Verizon with FIOS and AT&T; with uVerse jumped into the game selling the same thing (sorta) as the cable guys but with there own bundling and twisting tied to the benefit of mobile [...]
GigaOM |
October 8th, 2008 |
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While I worry about buying gadgets there are plenty of people out there worried about buying far more important things like food and gas, which means that TV offerings such as those from AT&T, Comcast and Verizon might see the effects of the struggling economy. Daniel Amir, a director and [...]
GigaOM |
October 1st, 2008 |
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AT&T's move to reorganize itself into four business units is likely a precursor to layoffs, according to sources within the company who asked not to be named. The reorg comes as AT&T tries to adjust to the realities of the credit crunch, a diminishing access line and DSL business, and [...]
GigaOM |
September 30th, 2008 |
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Beginning on Wednesday, Comcast, the largest broadband service provider in the U.S., is going to start capping the total amount of data you can transfer using their broadband connection - to 250GB per month. With this move, the cable company will become the symbol of a new Internet era, one [...]
iLocus |
September 30th, 2008 |
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IPTV equipment sales in 2Q08 reached $229 million. The equipment sales tracked by iLocus include those of IPTV specific STB, Middleware, VoD,... [[ Read the full story ]][...]
GigaOm |
September 30th, 2008 |
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The Senate on Friday passed a bill aimed at improving information about broadband competitiveness - or lack thereof. Following similar legislation that passed the House last fall, the Broadband Data Improvement Act act was passed in the Senate. Now the two sides must hash out a compromise bill and send [...]
We're posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know). But-as many readers have requested-they will [...]
We're posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know). But-as many readers have requested-they will [...]
GigaOM |
September 22nd, 2008 |
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On Friday, Comcast filed its network management plan, which we covered as did NewTeeVee. However, in the comments of the post, it became clear that customers don't really know what they're buying when they shell out $30 to $100 a month for a broadband connection. So I'm thinking that we [...]
GigaOM |
September 18th, 2008 |
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GigaOM Mobilize conference -- Carriers panel Without carriers and their data networks, mobile applications wouldn't be possible. So let's show them some love, says Chetan Sharma, of Chetan Sharma Consulting, the moderator of the panel. The consensus is that mobile data is becoming more important to carriers and it's growing [...]
