Archive for April, 2007
Pray it doesn’t take off
Monday, April 30th, 2007The list of ISPs that are doing IPTV is quite remarkable. Telenor, Telefonica, Telefonica O2 Czech Republic, France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Belgacom, Free, Fastweb, City Telecom, Neuf, Versatel, Maroc Telecom, PCCW, Tiscali Home Choice… The very act of calling this lot ISPs shows how far the market has moved since the 1990s.
I want to share […]
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Easy come, easy go
Friday, April 27th, 2007The problem with getting something for nothing is that you don’t see the value. That was my conclusion after the IIR ISP Forum that finished yesterday. Well, one of my conclusions anyway, but you will have to wait for another day for what was said about Joost, IPTV, Naked DSL, LLU and Fixed-to-Mobile Convergence.
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Mobile video
Thursday, April 19th, 2007There’s a time and a place for most things in life.People, and commuters in particular, have a lot of dead time. Monster.co.uk published some data in March that showed that 70% of the UK workforce spend more than 20 minutes getting to work, while 41% spend more than 40 minutes. The Office of National Statistics […]
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Comment: BSG report lost in translation?
Monday, April 16th, 2007So the FT reports that the “UK ‘must increase broadband investment’”.
Ministers and regulators have just two years to find ways of encouraging investment in the next generation of high-speed broadband, or the UK’s competitiveness will suffer, according to a report published on Monday.
The report referenced is the one by the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), […]
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Joost: analysis of a bandwidth hog
Monday, April 16th, 2007If you are a consumer (with fixed rate broadband), it’s all good. Joost means Internet TV is happening. The programming is professionally produced, even if the schedule for refreshing content is unclear. What’s up next after the top 200 goals on The Soccer Channel?If you own networks, you will be worried. Even before the Viacom […]
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Summary Slides: How to make money from video
Thursday, April 12th, 2007Working in Telecoms would not be the same without the ubiquitous PowerPoint deck. I’m sure that other industries suffer the same phenomenon, but if RoI were measured on how many slides an industry produces, ours would be right up there.If you want to learn how to deliver a truly great presentation (and have too much […]
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Part 5: The problem is also how to route the packets
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007It’s no good just working out how to get paid for delivering video, although of course that helps. The amounts that you can make are small in comparison with the cost of inefficiencies in the way that the broadband networks route packets.
The incremental cost of delivering a 2 hour 1080p HD movie can go from […]
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Part 4: “The problem is not how to route the packets, the problem is how to route the money”
Monday, April 2nd, 2007I attended the Telco 2.0 event last week so I took the title of this article from a quote by Hossein Moiin of T-Mobile and the MIT Communications Futures Programme. He accredits the quote to one of his peers at MIT, Dave Clark by the way, but whoever said it initially, it captures the two […]
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