Andy Abramson |
October 12th, 2008 |
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Dean Bubley has some insightful commentary about HSUPA and what it means to VoIP over 3G in his latest posting. I've used HSUPA on my Novatel Data Card via AT&T;'s 3G network and clearly see the difference, especially with mobile video conferencing. There's a major quality advantage with HSUPA over [...]
Isen |
October 10th, 2008 |
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When I read Geoff Daily's most recent blog posting, I realized that his misunderstanding of network neutrality came, in part, from a lack of appreciation of option value. [Here's my previous post on Geoff's take.]Now, let me declare right up front, Geoff is a great guy, and a true friend. [...]
GigaOM |
October 9th, 2008 |
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Today, Qwest Communications launches an Internet portal that allows users to access and see what's happening on their home phones. Dubbed qHome, the service allows users to see who's calling their home phone, listen to voicemail, forward messages, manage their contacts and place a phone call, all from the Internet. [...]
Andy Abramson |
October 8th, 2008 |
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First it was the cable guys selling you the "Triple Play" of voice, video and data. Then Verizon with FIOS and AT&T; with uVerse jumped into the game selling the same thing (sorta) as the cable guys but with there own bundling and twisting tied to the benefit of mobile [...]
GigaOM |
October 8th, 2008 |
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While I worry about buying gadgets there are plenty of people out there worried about buying far more important things like food and gas, which means that TV offerings such as those from AT&T, Comcast and Verizon might see the effects of the struggling economy. Daniel Amir, a director and [...]
GigaOM |
October 8th, 2008 |
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Today marks the formal launch of Sprint's Xohm network, and celebrants are gathered in Baltimore to show off their new WiMAX-enabled gadgets. But after chatting with an executive from Lenovo, I wonder just how open Sprint's network will be, and how that lack of true openness might slow the adoption [...]
GigaOM |
October 7th, 2008 |
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A few weeks ago we wrote about ways to get cheap wireless broadband, including an ingenious tip from Pocketables on how to use AT&T's prepaid GoPhone service to get unlimited access for $20 a month. Well, Phone News tells us that option will be cut off as of Nov. 12th, [...]
Isen |
October 6th, 2008 |
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If you haven't read Steve Labaton's story in yesterday's NYT on how one minor SEC rule-making caused today's absolutely foreseeable financial collapse, do it! As you read, here's a mental exercise: Every time you read Merrill Lynch, think AT&T.When you read Lehman Brothers, think Verizon.When you read SEC think FCC. [...]
GigaOM |
October 2nd, 2008 |
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The worsening financial environment that has stymied the sale of Embarq, made short-term borrowing more expensive for AT&T, and generally made credit hard to come by, could also slow the deployment of the Clearwire nationwide network. The company and analysts say the joint venture that will link Sprint's and Clearwire's [...]
GigaOM |
October 1st, 2008 |
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AT&T's move to reorganize itself into four business units is likely a precursor to layoffs, according to sources within the company who asked not to be named. The reorg comes as AT&T tries to adjust to the realities of the credit crunch, a diminishing access line and DSL business, and [...]
Isen |
October 1st, 2008 |
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The often-cluefull Geoff Daily heard some network manager state that "There's no such thing as network neutrality," and he swallowed it.Now, I've looked into the hearts of men and women, and I can flatly state that there's no such thing as good people. I've analyzed at all kinds of governments [...]
GigaOM |
September 30th, 2008 |
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Beginning on Wednesday, Comcast, the largest broadband service provider in the U.S., is going to start capping the total amount of data you can transfer using their broadband connection - to 250GB per month. With this move, the cable company will become the symbol of a new Internet era, one [...]
Andy Abramson |
September 30th, 2008 |
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Talking for less just got easier in the USA. The spectrum swap and bi-lateral roaming agreement between Leap Wireless (Cricket) and Metro PCS, a value priced leader in mobile, means that the incumbent giants Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T; now have to look over their shoulders at the two [...]
Andy Abramson |
September 29th, 2008 |
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The New York Times reports that for the first time SMS (Texting) was more popular than talk. In the fourth quarter of 2007, American cellphone subscribers for the first time sent text messages more than they phoned, according to Nielsen Mobile. Since then, the average subscriber’s volume of text messages [...]
Andy Abramson |
September 29th, 2008 |
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The Times of London has the news on the new rates for Skype users who acquire the SkypePhone. The big news is now you'll be able to call non-Skype users via Skype on the SkypePhone just like you can from Skype today on your PC. This is Huge.... With the [...]
GigaOM |
September 22nd, 2008 |
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On Friday, Comcast filed its network management plan, which we covered as did NewTeeVee. However, in the comments of the post, it became clear that customers don't really know what they're buying when they shell out $30 to $100 a month for a broadband connection. So I'm thinking that we [...]
GigaOM |
September 14th, 2008 |
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Comcast, the largest cable company in the world, has started to send emails to its subscribers letting them know about bandwidth limits the company is going to impose, starting Oct. 1, 2008. As it was reported earlier, the company had said that if people go over the 250 GB/month limit, [...]
Isen |
September 11th, 2008 |
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The University of Kentucky, in Lexington KY, finds that dorm dwellers aren't using plain old telephones anymore, so they're shutting them down. According to nky.com, a Web site affiliated with the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaperThe move will save the university $840,000; it pays $25 per land line each month . . [...]
GigaOM |
September 10th, 2008 |
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I happened across a post on Verizon's Policy Blog this afternoon and had to chuckle. The entire post is an effort to refute statistics used by organizations that claim the U.S. is falling behind in speed or has really pricey broadband compared with other nations. We all know that statistics [...]
Isen |
September 10th, 2008 |
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[This column was never published -- until now. It was to be my regular VON Magazine back-pager. I submitted it on March 20, 2008, but VON Magazine and the Pulvermedia empire crumbled before it was published. I stumbled upon it just now while I was searching for something else . [...]
GigaOM |
September 9th, 2008 |
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Unless you live in a part of the U.S. that has super-fast Internet or fiber connections, you're pretty much stuck with buying your broadband connection from either a cable company or a phone operator. The download speed on either is a crapshoot. But while we wring our hands over the [...]
