There is a never-ending debate about whether the bandwidth crunch is real or just made up by folks as an excuse to raise broadband service prices or sell more equipment. While I can’t speak to service fees, I can address the equipment side of the issue. First ISPs aren’t only providing bandwidth for Internet access, [...]
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TelecomView, headed up by industry veteran Bob Larribeau, has just come out with a report on “Opportunities in TelcoTV”. The main finding: across all categories, Motorola is the number one company in TelcoTV revenues, with more than twice the revenues of number-two competitor in the space Microsoft. Naturally, a large amount of this revenue comes [...]
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ISP Planet has a new report out showing that Time Warner Cable is about to surpass Vonage in digital phone/VoIP subscribers to become number two in the market after number-one Comcast. (Years of Vonage hype has not been enough to insulate the company against both patent woes and the might of the cable industry.) With [...]
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ZDNet has bundled together several interesting CE stats from Forrester. Here are a few of them with some added commentary: Adoption of digital video recorders (DVRs), will more than triple to be in more than 69 million households by 2012. It still feels to me like DVRs have had a relatively long adoption cycle, but [...]
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Wondering how important the digital “must-carry” issue has been for the cable industry? The popularity of articles on the topic may be an indicator. CTAM SmartBrief (CTAM stands for Cable & Telecommunications Marketing Association) reports that over the last week two of the top three most-read stories were on “must-carry” negotiations between the FCC and [...]
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