Friday, September 28, 2001
Global satellite broadband network on track for 2004
News: Global satellite broadband network on track for 2004 - ZDNet
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
UK E-minister calls for lower broadband prices
News: UK E-minister calls for lower broadband prices - The Register
Comment: Clearly a good announcement, let's see if it's just further rhetoric or whether further action will follow.
Hilarious facts derived from the article is, 13m homes connected to ADSL enabled exchanges, 50k installed ADSL's - that's 0.0038% utilisation. In addition, 180 ADSL resellers sharing 25k installation (BT have half of them themselves) - that an average of under 139 ADSL connection each - I would suggest that this is an insufficient number to generate enough income for them to survive.
BT may face £2bn bill for broadband delays
News: BT may face £2bn bill for broadband delays - ZDNet
Comment: At last, it appears that someone is bringing BT to account for their failure to rollout Broadband, including the lack of action on LLU.
Monday, September 24, 2001
New BT ADSL lite service
Pre-announcement of the new BT ADSL lite service BBC News
Comment: The monthly figure is still far too high - £40/month.
Media Players Embrace Broadband
News: Media Players Embrace Broadband - Wired
Comment: The newly merger Real player with jukebox
Brisbane Airport defies US WLAN ditch
News: Brisbane Airport defies US WLAN ditch - ZD Net
'Network PVR' for KIT?
News: 'Network PVR' for KIT? - BigPipe
Swedish Government Earmarks €640m for broadband
News: Broadband: Swedish Government Earmarks €640m - Tornado Insider
Sunday, September 23, 2001
AT&T to Consider Cable-TV Offers of AOL, Disney
News: AT&T to Consider Cable-TV Offers of AOL, Disney - The Standard
Wednesday, September 12, 2001
Korean Megapass give best service
News: Megapass best high-speed Internet service (Jul.01) - Korea Herald
Korea's Internet market poised for consolidation
Korea's Internet market poised for consolidation - Korean Herald
Korea's ThruNet pricing
ThruNet ADSL installation pricing and also
Installation about ~£20 and monthly charge ~£20Comment: How can they achieve this? - competition.
Monday, September 10, 2001
Korea Plans For Broadband Everywhere By 2005
Korea Plans For Broadband Everywhere By 2005 - Newsbytes
Broadband Wireless Exchange Magazine
Broadband Wireless Exchange Magazine
South Korea broadband powerhouse
News: South Korea emerges as powerhouse in broadband and wireless Internet markets - EM-Wire
Half households in Korea have BB
Old News (Apr.01): Half the households in Korea have BB access - American City Business Journals
Korea Telecom VDSL Rollout Slated for 2001
Old News (Feb.01):Korea Telecom VDSL Rollout Slated for 2001 - phoneplusinternational.com
Behind Korea's broadband explosion
Research: Old piece from Oct 2000 - Behind Korea's broadband explosion - Pyramid ResearchComment: One point appears to be strong competition. Interesting comment Korea 'will purchase up to one-quarter of all ADSL equipment sold worldwide' in 2000.
OpenTV ready for MHP certificate
News: OpenTV ready for MHP certificate - Cabletoday
Liberty Media buy 6 co's from DT
News: Liberty Media to buy six cable companies from Deutsche Telekom - Cabletoday
Broadband Baloney
Opinion piece - Broadband Baloney - BusinessWeek.Comment: Pretty negative piece, that in my view is someone jumping on the dot bomb bandwagon. Interesting facts listed - 'Market watcher Forrester Research Inc. estimates 72% of dial-up Net access customers won't pay more than $25 a month for broadband--half of what most providers now charge.' & 'fewer than 5% of U.S. online households have (it)'.
Sunday, September 09, 2001
The black art of media streaming
News: Broadband lack makes media streaming a black art - The Standard
BT to launch satellite broadband service
News BT to launch satellite broadband service - ZDNet
Saturday, September 08, 2001
AOL bids for AT&T Broadband
News: AOL bids for AT&T Broadband - Tech News - CNET.com
'Info' on Xbox2
A reported 'Exclusive' from UK PC Format magazine about the Xbox 2 or HomeStation. Interesting as MS were VERY keen not to portray the yet unrelease Xbox in this way - fearing the 'MS is taking over your life/world' argument put format while the trial was going on.
Internet radio stations start to die
Audio piece: Interesting Real Audio piece about why many Internet radio streams are coming to an end due to FCC rulings and actors/artists demanding unrealistic fees. National Public Radio
- via KenRadio
Korean prefer entertainment online
News: Korean Netizens prefer entertainment activities - Korea Herald
TV to go
News: TV to go - New Media Age
UPC to start digital TV in Vienna
News: UPC to start broadcasting digital TV in Vienna this month - Europemedia
AOL Readies High-Speed Cable Service
News: AOL Readies High-Speed Cable Service - Newsbyte
DSL Industry Inches Towards Standardisation
News: DSL Industry Inches Towards Standardisation - Internet.com
Broadband funding from Alston (Australia)
News: Broadband funding from Alston (Australia) - The Age
Wireless broadband trials hit London
News: Wireless broadband trials hit London - ZDNet UK
£200m fibre optic boost to West Ireland
News: £200m fibre optic superhighway to boost the West (of Ireland) - Irish Independent
The Fiber-Optic "Glut" -- in a New Light
News: The Fiber-Optic "Glut" -- in a New Light - BusinessWeek
Consumers Think Interactive TV Is Too Much Work
News: Consumers Think Interactive TV Is Too Much Work - NewsBytes
ReplayTV plans a new product
News: ReplayTV plans a new product - MSNBC
Was Excite@Home marriage doomed at the altar?
News: Was Excite@Home marriage doomed at the altar? - News.com
Educational Disconnect in Online Learning
News: Educational Disconnect in Online Learning - LA Times
Internet via power lines reborn in Europe
News: Internet access via power lines reborn in Europe - CNN Asia
Euro VOD market valued at E2.7Bn by 2006
News link: European video-on-demand market to be worth E2.7bn by 2006 - EuopeanMedia.net
Broadband debacle continues
News link: IT Director
Speedy Net Links Face a Slowdown
News: Speedy Net Links Face a Slowdown - IHT
DirecTV to sell broadband at Circuit City
News: DirecTV to sell broadband at Circuit City - news.com
Demand cooling for broadband
News: Demand cooling for broadband - digitalMass
WideRay - IR information exchange
WideRay is an interesting IR transmitting device that distributes or collects content of a wide area.
UEFA rules streaming video offside
Sensible thinking from UEFA to not stream video, on a couple of points :-
- Cost of BB distribution of these clips could be crippling. I imagine they are going to build up addiction of this video content using NarrowBand (NB) and then introduce charging with a premium for the BB version
- I don't know where most of the UEFA viewers would be, but it's highly possible that the countires don't have wide BB access.
Friday, September 07, 2001
McKinsey predict 40m BB household in 3-5 years
McKinsey prediction that 40m US households will have BB access in 3-5 years has some pretty sobering financials in it, but generally this article shows a typical surface-level understanding of what the medium is about with limiting comments summing up whole of iTV like 'shows that permit viewers to decide how they would like plot-lines to turn out (interactive TV)', being a clear illustration of this.
