Targeted Advertising? Really?

Photo by Cliff1066, Painting by Jasper Johns

This is somewhat of a tangential post, and it is the result of a rant I expressed on twitter. Some of the answers got my mind racing (thanks, @broadbandtrebds and @EveGr), but the

Reflexions on broadband speed measurement

As you probably know by now, I've been spending a lot of my evenings in recent weeks working on analysing an actual dataset of last mile usage. I'm not quite there yet, but I'm hopeful that the results will be

Sonic.net brings All You Can Eat broadband and phone to Northern California

In an era where the buzzwords about broadband and the internet seem to be caps and hogs, it's reassuring and exciting to see someone trying to buck the trend and offer what customers want as opposed to what he thinks

BT, FTTP, Water and Ducts

Some might argue that it had never really started, but in any case BT has announced that they were resuming FTTP deployment starting this month. Apparently the delay in deploying FTTP was due to other FTTP trials providing a lot

Return of the Hog Conundrum

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This morning, Ars Technica publishes a really interesting article on the cost structure underlying wireline broadband service and its sensitivity to data usage entitled Should broadband data hogs pay more? ISP economics say "no".This article looks

Real French Broadband Numbers

I don't know how interesting this is to anyone, but just in case, I thought I'd share it. ARCEP has released a paper this week with some sections blotted out. Unfortunately, they didn't secure that very thoroughly, and apparently just

Is Free Turning into Just Another Old Telco ?

I'm just back from a two-week trip in the US. You would not believe the number of people who talked to me and asked me about Free (Iliad) while I was there. That a French company with no activities outside

Dilbert breaks my radio silence…

First I want to apologise for the week's radio silence. Ever since Lafayette's FiberFete I haven't really had a minute to stop and blog. There's a lot of things I'd like to talk/write about but time has been the issue.

“Broadband Returns are Tenfold the Investment”

Interesting interview of Michael Curri by Geoff Daily on the economic case for broadband:

This guy is based in Paris too! I should meet with him…

Broadband drives Economic Growth… in some ways

Giga Om's Stacey Higginbotham wrote a really interesting article yesterday (Broadband Boosts Economic Development… To A Point) on a study undertaken by the Public Policy Institute of California. I'll let you read the article (and the study if