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 broadband to NGA broadband. Balancing price and
The disaggregation of linear TV is accelerating…
From Business Insider’s The Future of Digital
I was just talking yesterday about two French ISPs having given up on building their own linear content packages. One might argue that they did this in part because they see linear
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 to its slowing down in France and in the way they took a quasi-systematic anti-net neutral stance,
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 and particularly internet video flows, you’d expect the
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 are pretty darn impressive…
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 period, IPTV became a significant player in the TV broadcast field, and it will only become more important
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. I'm not just saying that to display my (quite considerable) education but more importantly because this phrase
The Slow Suicide of Net Discrimination
The whole net neutrality debate is heating up again, both in Europe and the US. As usual, the positions are quite clear: application and content providers generally support a truly neutral internet ecosystem, network operators support an ecosystem where discrimination