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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That’s what the media is reporting this morning.  That’s what this economic crisis has done to our minds.  AT&T reported earnings this morning, and they apparently missed on the profit number because iPhone sales - which are subsidized - were substantially higher than expected, and the headlines of course focus on the miss.  Does the [...]

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On TechTicker yesterday, Paul Kedrosky painted an ugly picture of how the credit crisis hurts telecom infrastructure.  It goes like this:  big telecom infrastructure rollouts like 3G in China are very often financed with debt, not from cashflow.  With no access to the debt markets, the buildouts will stall and this will hurt the equipment [...]

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According to a Technology Review article, researchers have succeeded in sending a 10.6Gbps wireless signal over millimeter wave.  That’s something we’ve only ever seen over fiber of course, with 100Gbps now the target.  So, does fiber have a new competitor?

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Fiber diet restored

(Communications Breakdown, 8/12/08)

A Woolly Market For Investors

(Hard Assets Investor, 10/16/08)

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At long last, Sprint’s XOHM exists!  The WiMAX network went live today in Baltimore.  Now, will people flock to it?  I think it depends entirely on how well it works, i.e. how reliable the speeds are and how solid the coverage area is.  Muni wifi failed largely because it, well, sucked.  DC and Chicago are [...]

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TMobile today announced who won the backhaul contracts for 6 of the 27 top markets in which they are supposed to roll out their new GSM network next month.  If you’ve followed this blog, you’ll notice that three of the four are private companies that have shown up in my research on metro fiber footprints, [...]

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Jon Arnold has an interesting article over on TMCnet about harnessing VoIP going forward.  The problem with VoIP applications have always been that they has only really served to replace other voice applications: Vonage replacing your home line, IP-PBX’s replacing older PBX’s, etc.  Unique features that actually caught on have been few and far between. 

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