First quarter shipment numbers are in, and the shift from BPON to GPON in fiber-to-the-home deployments is clear. While most 2007 shipments were BPON, in the first quarter of 2008, 90% of Motorola’s optical line terminals (OLTs) shipped were GPON. Top Motorola PON customers so far this year are Verizon and the aggregate of Motorola [...]
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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 [...]
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Info and pics continue to trickle in from the Mobile World Congress festivities. Check out some of the gorgeous photos after the jump showing Motorola’s LTE demos. There’s a great comparison shot of LTE video versus fixed broadband (much clearer than the shot I posted last week), and a photo that shows Motorola’s [...]
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As part of the deal for its CableCARD waiver last year, Verizon promised to convert to all-digital video signals by the time of the official analog shut-off in 2009. To do that, the operator is looking at providing free digital set-tops to its analog holdovers, and today I confirmed those set-tops will be Motorola [...]
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Last week Verizon announced it has topped one million customers for its FiOS TV service. The announcement hit the wires a mere seven months after the operator reached the same milestone for its high-speed Internet offering.
As far as TV goes, Verizon’s major differentiator comes from the fact that it’s building out fiber to [...]
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Whether you believe Verizon needs more HDTV or doesn’t need it, the operator announced today that it will have more than 150 HD channels by the end of 2008, introduced on a market-by-market basis. Also in the press release, Verizon will offer a “limited number” of on-demand HD flicks before the end of [...]
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Verizon’s policy blog has a video demo up of the company’s new 20/20 broadband service: 20 Mbps downstream and 20 Mbps upstream. I would guess that the vast majority of Internet users today don’t need 20 Mbps upstream capacity, but that’s going to change. One example: As today’s early-20-somethings start having kids, [...]
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Discussions have heated up around Verizon’s HD plans for FiOS, and there’s even a short war of words going on between EngadgetHD and Verizon’s policy blog. I’m still skeptical that Verizon has to get aggressive with its HD offerings immediately, but there is certainly a vocal group of folks who believe differently. In [...]
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As much love as Verizon has gotten for FiOS, there is occasional disgruntled muttering over Verizon’s lack of aggression in adding HD content to FiOS TV. Why would a service provider who has all the bandwidth capacity of fiber to the home (FTTH) get stingy with HDTV? Industry veteran Matt Stump (previously of [...]
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The recent acquisition of Sling by Echostar certainly suggests that the big guys in the biz value a little technology called place-shifting, and that the little guys still need big pockets to move their technology forward. So with the place-shifting market starting to mature, here’s a look at what has and hasn’t already been [...]
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