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Broadband legislation on the move
Besides the voting to extend the Internet tax moratorium, folks in Congress have been busy on at least two other broadband-related issues this week. First, the House Energy and Commerce Committee
Collecting the money could be the hard part
Moving from being a transport utility where the only job is to swipe a credit card for shuffling bits down a pipe to managing a complex array of payments for various content usage is one of the
Reports: AT&T/EchoStar deal near
AT&T reportedly has hired Goldman Sachs to explore the possibility of acquiring EchoStar, with one source speculating the deal could happen within three to six weeks. Meanwhile, an industry
Innovation of the Week: VDSL2 action builds
What: VDSL2 (very high-speed digital subscriber line 2) Why you should care: The second VDSL standard offers higher power output and more bandwidth than VDSL1, and can be used in somewhat
IPTV grows fivefold in two years
The DSL Forum released IPTV penetration statistics this week that chart a fivefold increase in subscribers from 2005 to mid-2007. As of June 30, the worldwide subscriber base for IPTV services
Cavalier eyes Baltimore TV franchise
Independent telco Cavalier Telephone, based in Richmond, Va., is seeking to become the third TV service provider (after Comcast and Verizon) in the Baltimore market. Cavalier was among the first U.S.
Sprint looks for a WiMAX boost
Who: Sprint Nextel Why you should care: Sprint's Xohm WiMAX service got a good workout during the opening night of WiMAX World in Chicago last night, as press and analysts accessed a trial network
Telcos bet biz model on TV
About 100 or so small to mid-sized phone companies across the country have deployed some form of IPTV service--mostly for self-preservation. Here's a brief perspective from four telco executives:
Verizon kills DSL seasonality myth
Who hasn't listened to a quarterly earnings call of some telecom company and heard a CEO explain revenue declines as result of seasonal trends in customer spending? Maybe there's some validity to it
New Zealand telco faces big changes
New Zealand incumbent telco Telecom is finding it as hard to adjust to a new competitive era as anyone else. The company's chief operating officer of consumer business just resigned his post, the
