http://www.inveslogic.com/tags/broadband Blog Articles Tagged with 'broadband' at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1116806?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband With Comcast announcing a 250 GB cap on its broadband service and Time Warner trialling a tiered service with limits that range from 5 GB to 40 GB, we ve decided to challenge people to break those caps. Obviously we can t verify if someone actual... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:24:30 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1116806?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1116493?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband Comcast is out telling defending its bandwidth caps and how they are not bad. And how 250 GB transfer is plenty and enough to do whatever we want to do. Of course, in today s terms that is more than enough, but what happens in the future. Neverthe... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:49:40 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1116493?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1116221?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband Karl Bode over on DSL Reports reports that Comcast will institute a 250 GB cap on its broadband connections starting Oct. 1. Expect other carriers to follow suit and make tiered broadband a reality. Much as I would like to think otherwise, this is th... Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:35:03 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1116221?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research/1115974?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband Another example of an innovative European incumbent: Swisscom has been bundling home broadband with mobile, without requiring a home phone. I suspect Cablecom's home phone + broadband + TV bundles drove Swisscom to innovate.This has created enough of... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:59:48 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research/1115974?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research/1115976?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband I'm becoming increasingly bewildered by the UK's advertising standards rulings (e.g. on cable allowed to be described as fibre broadband).Latest is that the ASA has decided that Apple's iPhone should not be advertised as offering access to all the In... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:12:57 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research/1115976?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115485?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband Ever since my troublemaker friend Andy Abramson figured out a way to make VoIP calls over GoGo, the in-flight broadband system from Aircell, there has been a flurry of activity leading to the banning of some of the services Andy used.Andy s experim... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:21:23 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115485?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115359?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband Google is working with a consortium of carriers to become part of an intra-Asian submarine cable system, tentatively called the Southeast Asian Japan Cable (SJC). The cable would be Google s second play in the sub-sea category. The new cable links ... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:26:50 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115359?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1115287?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband Image via Wikipedia This morning, some time between 8 and 11 AM, a crew from Rogers will be here installing cable internet. After a decade with DSL first as part of the initial North American trials in Seattle, and then in Ottawa I finally di... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:39:02 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1115287?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115024?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband Larry Dignan, who writes at the Between The lines blog, talked to Qwest CTO Pieter Poll about company s future plans including fiber-based broadband. Unlike Verizon, Qwest has opted for fiber-to-the-node strategy. The company is pushing fiber to a ... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:58:24 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115024?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115025?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband After the FCC last week told Comcast it had 30 days to file its new network management plan that involves cutting back speeds for users who are using too much bandwidth, the mainstream media is learning more about the slowdown plan Comcast CTO Tony W... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:15:08 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115025?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115026?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband The Internet has given us plenty of something for nothing, and we ve comfortably allowed advertising to support that free content. After all, its a model we re familiar with from TV, magazines and newspapers. But on the Internet, the advertising-... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:09:55 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115026?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115032?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband Embarq, the wireline division spun off by Sprint, today announced that it would cut between 500 and 700 jobs and eliminate 300 contractors. The company lost about 170,000 landlines in the most recent quarter. According to an AP report, in June Embarq... Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:43:08 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115032?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115033?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband The all-out war between telephone companies and cable companies is now going to be fought on a whole new front: wireless. Last week, Cox confirmed that it was getting into the wireless business, joining cable industry peers. Patrick Esser, president... Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:55:07 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115033?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1114150?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband Okay that is a bit over the top! Nielsen Mobile came out a report that points out that there were 13 million mobile data cards in the US at the end of June 2008. Not a big surprise, since wireless carriers in the US are having a blockbuster year as f... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:16:07 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1114150?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1114151?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband Who Wins: AT&T U-Verse or Verizon FiOS AT&T U-Verse Verizon FiOS Neither. Cable will still beat them Verizon recently launched its FiOS TV & fiber-based broadband service in New York City, The New York Times is... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:06:03 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1114151?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113820?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband Updated: Today, Google is launching a new advocacy campaign, Free The Airwaves, an effort by the company to get some traction around white spaces, the tiny slivers of spectrum that resides in the 700 MHz band spectrum vacated by analog television s... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:00:20 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113820?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113821?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband National Science Foundation has put together a really great web site that tells the story of the birth of the Internet, using videos, presentations and documents from its archives. The history is divided into decades, and there is a special section d... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:58:37 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113821?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113823?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband Having followed the optical network business for over a decade, one thing I have learned is that the boom and bust cycles of the business often mask patterns that have long-term implications. The overbuilding of U.S. networks in the 1990s foretold a ... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:26:15 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113823?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113824?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband We have been following the emergence of 4G technologies pretty closely, including the looming battle between WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE). As part of this continuing coverage, we are going to give you short updates on these technologies and cu... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:21:42 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113824?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1113834?rsstype=tag&tag=broadband Many people are familiar with the coffee shop s Wi-Fi, while others even know how to set up a simple home network. Pretty much everyone, however, knows that Wi-Fi is what makes it all possible. That ubiquity is what many venture firms are counting ... 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