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Gigabit and beyond: pricing and positioning strategies

  • While residential gigabit access has been technically feasible for years, few service providers have included it in their portfolios. It seemed highly unlikely that the customers would be willing to pay for such speeds, let alone actually perceive a change ...

Salvaging Google Fiber’s Achievements

In the wake of Google Access CEO Craig Barratt’s “goodbye Access” post on the Google Fiber blog yesterday, there are papers left, right and center predicting the end of Google Fiber. Barratt’s post tries to sound upbeat, but in essence

Benoit Felten - October 27, 2016 - Fiber, Opinions fiber - google - us

Is Google Fiber (Finally) Changing the Broadband Game ?

Past my initial enthusiasm all these years ago, I’ve always been a bit of a Google Fiber skeptic. The long-term impact of Google Fiber on the US Broadband market is often (in my opinion) over-rated, as AT&T’s flat CAPEX lines

Benoit Felten - March 7, 2016 - Fiber, Opinions google fiber - huntsville - open access - us

Can Iliad Succeed in the US Market?

 

A topic that I’ve been following closely over the summer despite a relatively lackluster press coverage in non-French speaking media is the attempted bid by Iliad on T-Mobile US. This is interesting to me for a number of reasons,

Benoit Felten - September 5, 2014 - Business Models, Opinions business model - costs - iliad - lean - t-mobile - us

US Cable Reviled by its customers

It’s hard to believe that profitable businesses would be so detested by their customers, and yet survey after survey shows how US broadband users revile their cable operator. The latest is the subject of an article in the Washington post

Benoit Felten - June 9, 2014 - Opinions, Tech Trends cable - etno - regulation - satisfaction - us

Net Neutrality Threatened…

Last night the US regulator FCC announced that they were carving out exceptions to Net Neutrality rulings for “fast lanes” that ISPs could charge to OSPs. Only in La La Land can this still be called Neutrality. I’ll write about

Benoit Felten - April 24, 2014 - Net neutrality, Opinions fcc - net neutrality - us

Susan Crawford throws her hat in the ring

During Mobile World congress, Telefonica Executive Chariman Alierta made an impassioned speech asking for the European market to be more like the US when it comes to telecoms. Here is a quoted segment of his speech:

“But we’re behind.

Benoit Felten - April 9, 2013 - Business Models, Opinions, Policy alierta - broadband - china - regulation - regulatory capture - us

AT&T’s New Paradigm

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A couple of weeks ago, AT&T unveiled its investment plans going forward and clarified the way it envisages wireline and wireless broadband in the coming years. Teresa Mastrangelo has a blog post that clarifies the salient

Benoit Felten - November 20, 2012 - Opinions, Policy at&t - copper - lte - rural - universal service - us

Here’s to “robust competition.”

Us_dp One of the sad things about the state of the US telecom market is that the balance of power between business and politics is completely out of whack. A few weeks ago I had an opportunity to talk with the

Benoit Felten - October 5, 2011 - Opinions, Policy colorado - lobbying - longmont - referendum - us

PBS Documentary on Broadband in the UK and Netherlands

There's an excellent PBS documentary from their series Need to Know entitled High Fiber. It highlights the broadband successes in the UK and the Netherlands in contrast to the US broadband quality and price issues. Some of the more

Benoit Felten - June 3, 2011 - Opinions, Policy broadband - netherlands - policy - uk - us

Is Cisco’s ūmi the revolution of residential communication ?

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Last week I was lucky enough to experience (under embargo) Cisco's new home telepresence product, ūmi (pronounced you-me). The photo above shows me and my colleague Vince in front of the home TV we used for the demo. In

Benoit Felten - October 6, 2010 - Business Models, Opinions, Policy cisco - telepresence - umi - us - video-communication

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