$diffraction analysis$

Reflexions on broadband speed measurement

As you probably know by now, I've been spending a lot of my evenings in recent weeks working on analysing an actual dataset of last mile usage. I'm not quite there yet, but I'm hopeful that the results will be

Sonic.net brings All You Can Eat broadband and phone to Northern California

In an era where the buzzwords about broadband

Policy Failure ?

I've been musing about policy a lot these last few weeks.

I sense a shift in the way European institutions in particular are looking at the issue of policy

Friday Fiber US News Roundup

Clearly, if my stats are to be trusted, no one reads me on a Friday. Still, a few interesting things came up stateside this week (which was actually made last week but I only picked it up today…) which I

Google Deploys Experimental FTTH in the US

I've always been one of those who stated that Google had no interest in being an infrastructure player. I guess I was wrong

“Blows Cable Away”!

Seen from the shores of old Europe, US comparative advertising always seems incredibly unsubtle, but it’s also (I guess) incredibly efficient. I’ve put up a few adverts over the last few months of cable masquerading as fiber. The advertising response

Visionary Verizon?

Synchronicity?

As you know the traditional telco model has been high on my mind these last few weeks. Discussions with people smarter (