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Broadband at 1 Gbps in 2012!!

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Koreans and Japanese enjoy today broadband connections at 100 Mbps. Not being enough, the Korean Communications Commission wants to boost the country broadband infrastructure to provide 1 Gbps service in 2012!! That  is a tenfold increase from today’s speed and … Continue reading →

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Telecom at the Speed of Moore’s Law

Posted on September 23, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

While the IT industry has Moore’s law in their DNA, the Telecom industry (both telcos and vendors) have not yet been able to embrace the concept and many analyst keep raising doubts about the sustainability of Telecommunications decreasing margins. Microprocessors, … Continue reading →

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Telcos do not need Metered Broadband

Posted on June 6, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Building a broadband network based on Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) is a big investment. Once the fiber is deployed Telcos usually offer IPTV as one of the main revenue generating services to pay-back the investment. Some Telcos argue that once they put … Continue reading →

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Should Broadband be charged as an Utility?

Posted on June 5, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Defenders of Metered Broadband argue that other Utilities such as Electricity and Water are all charged based on usage: The more Watts-hour you consume the more you pay. So why not the same for broadband: the more gigabytes you download, … Continue reading →

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Metered Broadband: Pay-per-Use or Abuse?

Posted on June 3, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Competition among ISPs used to be fierce in the initial times of dial-ups access, with tens of ISPs in the market. That might explain why ISPs did not manage to retain any control of users and flat rates were made … Continue reading →

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3G brings Mobile Broadband at last

Posted on May 24, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

I just discovered this interesting graph in Brough Turner’s post 3G’s biggest success is as a dumb pipe. The graph highlights two main points: 1) 3G data trafffic has increased more than 10 times in Finland, and 2) 92% of that … Continue reading →

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Transforming Telcos: Telco 2.0

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Two weeks ago I found, as a guest post at GigaOM, an interesting article from  STL Partners  on the future of broadband. While I disagree on a few points, it does bring some fresh ideas about the evolution of telcos: … Continue reading →

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Is there a business case for WiMAX?

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Jose Miguel Cansado

WIMAX promises Mobile Broadband at much lower cost for operators than current 3G technologies, thanks to better spectrum efficiency and an architecture conceived for IP. For the user, WiMAX will have a similar behaviour as Wifi -plus the advantage of ubiquitous coverage and … Continue reading →

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