Much ado was made when the recent wireless spectrum options wrapped up and the two biggest winners were AT&T; and Verizon. Pundits lamented over the fact the two biggest companies got the two biggest chunks of spectrum as they feared...

Posted by Geoff Daily on May 13, 2008 10:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)
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Comcast has recently come out with an aggressive push back against accusations of any misconduct in its treatment of P2P traffic on its network. First, the good news. They've announced a new relationship with BitTorrent through which they claim to...

Posted by Geoff Daily on March 31, 2008 9:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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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...

Posted by Geoff Daily on March 25, 2008 9:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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The maelstrom surrounding Comcast's decision to interfere with P2P traffic on its network gained a new front today as law firm Gilbert Randolph LLP filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Dr. Sanford Sidner and all the citizens of...

Posted by Geoff Daily on February 28, 2008 12:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)
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Earlier this week Comcast submitted comments to the FCC defending their right to slow down traffic on its network. The analogy they used to describe how they manage P2P traffic was that of an on-ramp to a busy highway that...

Posted by Geoff Daily on February 15, 2008 8:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)
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Everyone knows that cable companies have some problems with their broadband service. Theirs is a shared network where one neighbor can have dramatically negative impacts on another's service. There's the Comcast/Bittorrent brouhaha over the cable giant blocking or degrading sometimes-legal...

Posted by Geoff Daily on February 8, 2008 12:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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I had the great fortune to chat with Lynn Meikle of Meridian Township, Michigan on Monday. You may have heard of Meridian recently as last Friday they made news by filing suit against Comcast to stop plans to move PEG...

Posted by Geoff Daily on January 16, 2008 8:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBacks (0)
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As mentioned yesterday, I attended a panel of representatives of the biggest broadband providers in the US, including: Tom Tauke of Verizon, Jim Cicconi of AT&T;, Joseph Waz of Comcast, Mr. Ali of Sprint (my apologies to him if he's...

Posted by Geoff Daily on January 9, 2008 2:46 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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It's been an incredible year for FTTH in arena of public opinion. It started as an albatross, a costly gamble that Wall Street battered Verizon's stock price for daring to try. Then earlier this year attitudes began to shift. As...

Posted by Geoff Daily on December 3, 2007 1:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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In my research for a StreamingMedia.com feature that explores the opportunities and challenges of online HD video delivery, I learned about a company called Move Networks, which powers ABC's library of full-screen first-run episodes from its most popular TV shows....

Posted by Geoff Daily on November 20, 2007 9:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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Comcast's policies towards its heaviest users have been covered in AppRising on more than one occasion, but they're like the gift that keeps on giving as more news continues to come out as the storm around their decision to interfere...

Posted by Geoff Daily on November 15, 2007 11:06 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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The fallout from the news that Comcast is officially interfering with P2P traffic continues to grow. It's officially hit Congress now. Here's an article in large part about a conversation the author had with Representative Rick Boucher, D-VA. And there's...

Posted by Geoff Daily on October 29, 2007 12:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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Just when I sensed the net neutrality debate was cooling off and the opportunity for a rationale dialogue finally seemed possible, Comcast had to go and stick its finger into the eye of the net neutrality camp. Here's what's happened:...

Posted by Geoff Daily on October 24, 2007 10:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)
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Just found this Consumerist post about Comcast's policies towards its heaviest users. They claim to have talked with a former Comcast employee who cites that Comcast's invisible bandwidth limit is actually 200GB, rather than the 100GB I postulated earlier this...

Posted by Geoff Daily on September 20, 2007 12:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (1)
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In the latest news on Comcast’s moves to cut off service to its heaviest users, they’ve made an official, though somewhat obtuse, statement about their policy towards “excessive use." In this article, a spokesperson for Comcast defines “excessive use” as...

Posted by Geoff Daily on September 17, 2007 11:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)
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