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Data Caps are the new front on the net neutrality war

The tech press has been abuzz last week when it was first leaked and later announced that Deutsche Telekom would soon apply data caps to their wireline broadband offers (see this Fierce Telecom article for details.) Unlike AT&T style caps,

Fiber Networks in Germany

The German market has always been a trend-setter when it comes to telecoms, and in the realm of next-generation access, it is no different. In many ways, the municipal and utility initiatives in Germany are comparable to some of the

Deutsche Telekom to deploy (some) FTTH in Germany!

This is the announcement that everyone was waiting for, even though it's of a limited scale. Deutsche Telekom has announced today that it would be investing 10 bn EUR in IT and network upgrades and that an unspecified proportion of

NetCologne announces 1Gb/s service for 2010

I have been spending part of my week-end designing the specifications for a dataset that would allow me to identify the existence and importance of bandwidth hogs (or 'disruptive users' as I more politely call them in that document…) I