Posts in the Wireline Category

Last week the FCC officially announced its decision to create a national broadband policy. While it’s a great idea in theory, not everyone is cheering quite yet.  According to a recent article in Telephony, service providers are expressing concern about the time, money and resources they may have to invest up front, not to mention […]

It seems that Comcast is taking the first steps toward implementing data usage caps, a move that the FCC is not too happy with.
This Spring, Comcast began testing technology in select markets that slows down connections for its heaviest bandwidth users, with hopes of fully implementing the system by the end of the year. This […]

Yesterday morning, many die-hard baseball fans got up extra early to watch the Red Sox/Athletics season opener in Japan, only to be given an even ruder awakening than the sound of their alarm clocks - a blank TV screen when they tried to watch the game.  DirecTV (and some Comcast) customers missed most or all of […]

Steve Lohr wrote a great article about the growth of Internet congestion on Thursday in the New York Times.  In the article, Steve focuses on the Internet traffic jam from the consumer perspective but I was struck more by the issues Internet congestion raises on the business side.  The fact that high-bandwidth services like video […]

On this date in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call. From a wire connecting two rooms in a Boston laboratory to a mesh of fiber and wireless networks covering (and above) the globe, we’ve certainly come a long way!

If you subscribe to the IEC’s newsletter, you may have noticed that a whitepaper I wrote with Sukant Mohapatra, “A Solution Framework for Next Generation Network Planning,” was featured in yesterday’s issue in the “Analyst Corner” section. The paper addresses the core issues associated with next-generation network planning, the challenges wireline service providers […]

I was watching TV last night and I saw the Verizon commercial where the husband and wife suggest introducing their house’s landline “network” to the wife’s cell phone “network” - but of course they know each other already because the Verizon “network” is all one big happy family (cue the Verizon theme song…). This commercial reminded me […]