It’s got to be rare that a financial analyst is proud to predict an event that only has a 2% chance of occurring, but my friend and occasional sounding board Arnie Berman is quite pleased to do just that. His firm Cowen and Company published a report earlier this month titled Top 10 Potential Surprises [...]
AT&T’s New 10 Mbps Data Tier
Posted on January 23, 2008 by Mari Silbey
Broadband Reports has a post up about AT&T’s new 10 Mbps service dropping on February 1st, and I have a nice little chart to go along with Karl Bode’s analysis of the throughput numbers. (See above) With VDSL2, AT&T can deliver roughly 50 Mbps with copper loop lengths of 1,000 feet, and roughly 25 Mbps [...]
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Comcast has an Online Hit
Posted on January 22, 2008 by Mari Silbey
I’ve watched closely over the last 12-18 months as Comcast has adjusted its approach to online video, and I believe folks have underestimated the company’s strategy and foresight. Just as the Web video craze is exploding into the mainstream, Comcast has launched a hit with Fancast. Unlike its video attempts on the Comcast.net portal, the [...]
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HBO on the Web – Not a Time Warner Contradiction
Posted on January 21, 2008 by Mari Silbey
The news that HBO (a Time Warner company) will offer its programming for free online to HBO subscribers is all over the tech blogs today, with an interesting range of commentary. Most interesting to me is Cynthia Brumfield’s argument on whether or not the news goes against Time Warner’s planned initiative to test metered broadband [...]
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Upstream, Downstream
Posted on January 20, 2008 by Mari Silbey
The Pew Internet and American Life Project put out a report last month stating that 64% of online teens were “Content Creators” in 2007. This means that nearly two thirds of the teenage population created and shared original content on the Web. I can’t think of a more revealing statistic with regard to the future [...]
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