Leading French TV Group Demonstrates the Lack of Value of its own Content

Once in a while in the business world you see something so unbelievably stupid that you know the moment it happens that it will be taught in business schools as a case study in fatal mistakes for decades to come.

Building the Optimal NGA Service Portfolio

Building an NGA service portfolio is a challenging task: the cost of the new infrastructure being deployed is such that profitability can only be obtained if significant proportions of customers switch from legacy broadb

The disaggregation of linear TV is accelerating…

From Business Insider’s The Future of Digital

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Orange fights back… intelligently!

Orange (CC) avhell

Over the years I’ve been fairly critical of Orange both in the way they captured the NGA market and contributed

Latency certainly matters for video viewing…

Two scientists from Akamai recently published a paper entitled Video Stream Quality Impacts Viewer Behavior: Inferring Causality Using Quasi-Experimental Designs. Now Akamai being in the business of optimizing internet traffic flows

Killer App is low latency…

As might be expected, some parts of this feel “normal” (facebook) but the photo browsing, the youtube video and especially the googlemaps walkaround

Is Google Glass the Prototype Killer App for Fiber?

The one thing I probably get asked the most about the Fiber Revolution is “what is the killer app for Fiber?”

I dislike the question, I think the frame of mind that leads one to asking the question

TV 2.0 is an opportunity for telcos to be at the heart of content delivery

In the last decade, distribution of linear video content has been one of the key drivers for broadband service upgrades. During this

How Net Discrimination Works (Or Doesn’t Work…)

I'm increasingly puzzled by the net discrimination stance that a number of European Incumbents have started to push forward in the last few months despite mounting evidence that the "alternative business model for the internet" that they are pushing forward

Arroseur Arrosé…

L'Arroseur Arrosé was one of the first ever movies to be filmed and shown in cinemas by the Lumière brothers in 1895.