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One growing trend among America's communications providers is the offering of "price for life" services. These promise to deliver a guaranteed price for service for the life of a customer. But there's a bizarre assumption underlying these offers, namely that...
In yet another sign of the gaping chasm between America's broadband trajectory and the rest of the world, China Telecom has announced that they're going to install a fiber network that passes 18 million homes this year. To put that...
In the FCC's national broadband plan an assumption is made that competition is a good thing, that having multiple facilities-based competitors unencumbered by government regulation will create a healthy broadband marketplace. But this DSLReports.com article entitled, "Time Warner's 'Surgical' Upgrades...
Last week I had the opportunity to head back down to Cajun Country for another trip to Lafayette, LA. While there's much to share about my journeys, there's one thing in particular I want to highlight today: Lafayette is fast...
In starting to peruse the reply comments to the FCC on formulating a national broadband policy, something NCTA said caught my eye, namely that the FCC should acknowledge that one of the many successes in the broadband marketplace has been...
"Competition" is a key buzzword in telecom policy. Existing providers think there's plenty, while many public interest groups think we need more. But getting in the way of effective policymaking is that the truth lies somewhere in between. If you...
After too long of a break, I'm happy to share the latest App-Rising.com VidChat. This time I sat back down with Christopher Mitchell from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance to discuss open networks: what they are, how they're different, and...
Yesterday on the way to meeting my wife for dinner I got to talking with my cab driver, asking him the question, What does broadband mean to you? At first he hesitated, so I cajoled him a bit questioning whether...
Wow - Well here we go, proof positive that competition does drive deployment of faster networks. Time Warner's COO basically said that where there's fiber to compete against they'll be deploying DOCSIS 3.0, the next generation of cable broadband. But...
There are many in the telecom world who believe the ultimate answer to all things broadband is competition. If you can just get that dynamo of capitalism churning then you'll create incentives through competition to spur investment and innovation. I've...
This past Friday morning I caught a cab and headed across the National Mall to attend a morning event put on by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation entitled “Building the Broadband Economy and Society.” The first session presented an...
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