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
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
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,
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
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
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.
AT&T’s New Paradigm
Copper Strands (CC) Blyzz
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
Here’s to “robust competition.”
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
Is Cisco’s ūmi the revolution of residential communication ?
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