Congressman Rick Boucher of Virginia is my kind of elected official. He wants us all to have 50 megs down and 20 megs up of broadband. And as the post on DSL Reports mentions, with Docsis 3.0 coming to a cable box near you rather soon, those speeds are more than attainable. In my...
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Archive for December, 2009
Congressman Sets Realistic Broadband Speed Goals
Free Gets 3G License in France
I recall once having a cigar with the founder of Free at Atelier Berger, on Rue Berger in Paris one rainy night back in 2006. As a disruptive force in telecom they have clearly been that in France. Now they have 3G spectrum, which can't be good news for Orange and SFR.
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Why 02 Wants Jahja
Om has a meme on why O2/Telefonica wants to buy Jajah. The answer is Voype.
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The 21st Century Phone
Give Charlie Stross a read on his well authored post on his blog, Charlie's Diary. My take is simply this. If you have GoogleVoice in calling party pays environment, you can eliminate a large monthly base mobile bill for unlimited minutes, because every call is received back to you after being triggered by the...
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Startup Time at IT Expo
While the holiday season is getting into full swing it is hard to believe that we're now less than a month away from the Winter Edition of IT Expo. To me it only feels like yesterday when Rich Tehrani and his team put on one of the best telecom events they ever have in...
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