Just when you might have thought Broadband over Power Lines was finally dead and buried, here it comes back again.  In this iteration, it is IBM and an upstart called IBEC pushing the idea and, yes, putting money behind it.  As if we don’t have plenty of viable business models in need of investment right [...]

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Apparently unwilling to wait for WiMAX, Cox Communications is going to build its own 3G cell network, in-region.  Out of region, they will strike a deal with Sprint-Nextel, and they are apparently planning to trial LTE.  By contrast, Comcast seems to be planning WiMAX femtocells in a partnership with Clearwire.  Cox’s move seems to put [...]

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Apparently, NTT’s customers in Japan are also getting a usage cap.   But it’s quite different from Comcasts 250Gb/month limit.  NTT’s limit is a) daily, b) 30Gb, and c) upstream only.  Who the heck uploads 30Gb/day?  Apparently some P2P nodes will do that if you let them and happen to be hooked up to the sort [...]

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Comcast filed a description of its new congestion management system a few days ago.  This is what will replace their previous system which throttled P2P traffic.  Of course, they backed off that plan a while back, then were told to back off that plan by the FCC, and have appealed that ruling - apparently to [...]

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