Cable’s Wireless Play

Wow. From GigaOM and The Wall Street Journal this morning, the Spring/Clearwire WiMAX joint venture is on, and top cable operators are in on the fun. Comcast is adding more than $1 billion to the venture, Time Warner Cable is putting in $550 million and Bright House Networks is committed for $100 million. That doesn’t [...]

More than One Million FTTH Subscribers in Europe

The Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council Europe event officially kicks off tomorrow, and to drum up excitement, the Council has leaked early information from a report showing that there are now more than one million FTTH subscribers throughout Europe. The growth rate was 30% from 2006 to 2007.
Of course compared to growth rates in North America [...]

On the Blog Council

Several large companies have banded together to launch something called the Blog Council to deal with issues in corporate blogging. Hmmm.
Before reading skeptical reactions from the likes of Robert Scoble, I had some skeptical reactions of my own. Corporate blogging in itself is a bit of an oxymoron given the ponderousness of most [...]

AT&T U-verse Reaches 100K

It hardly sounds like a lot when compared to cable TV numbers or even Verizon’s FiOS TV subscribers, but AT&T’s milestone of 100,000 U-verse customers is an important one. AT&T far outstrips any other all-IPTV rollouts in the United States. The general consensus is that one day everything will be IP-based, but most [...]