Archive for October, 2006
IP as a Natural Monopoly
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006I was contacted this week by Stefano Quintarelli, President of the Italian Internet Service Providers Association. He was interested in my views on IP as a natural monopoly which is a subject I have often thought about but from a different angle to that proposed by Stefano.
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Intelligence at the Edge
Thursday, October 12th, 2006This is clearly what James Enck and it seems a growing number of Telco executives believe is the way forwards. I’ll never do his article justice by summarising it, so read it for yourself here, if you haven’t already…This theory of the network as a pure transport mechanism is clearly a threat to telco jobs […]
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Local Loop Unbundling
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006So here we are, just over half way to the 1.5 million lines target. It is worth stopping for a second to consider what we have learned about Local Loop Unbundling.Firstly, we have learned that you need customer density on an exchange by exchange basis. If you have over 350 subscribers on each exchange, your […]
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The Venice Project
Thursday, October 5th, 2006The founders of Skype and Kazaa are at it again. They have announced that they are establishing the Venice Project, which is a rather grand name for an IP TV distribution network. Instead of Voice calls or pirate software, you will be able to get films and videos.Using their tried and trusted peer to peer […]
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Web ‘n’ Walk to permit VoIP
Monday, October 2nd, 2006A report on The Register claims that T-Mobile is about to launch a Web ‘n’ Walk tariff that removes the VoIP restriction and also allows IM. This is an interesting evolution of the product which should help its adoption, but risks going backwards by re-enforcing the emphasis on VoIP rather than other data applications.When the […]
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