Op-Ed in the New York Times about the major ISP’s becoming to bandwidth what OPEC is to oil. The BBC is running an article about the estimated cost of rewiring (fibering if you will) the UK. They explore the costs of FTTH vs FTTN. For those of you with interest… Continue reading
Today’s Broadband Bytes was brought to you by the letters C, W, and T. Robert X. Cringely has some words to say about Comcast’s new bandwidth caps. He compares today’s caps to the caps he had years ago. Do they match up? Is Comcast offering a better deal than the… Continue reading
Comcast will start capping their data transfer caps at 250Gig per month on Oct 1st. Dish Network has started offering HD and SD content in MPEG4 format. Other providers cable and DirectTV are only providing HD content in MPEG4 format. Qwest is trying to get Comcast taxed as a telco… Continue reading
Popular Mechanics has an article about cable companies recompressing DTV signals. It also talks about bit rates and what makes HD look good or not. Hate being forced to rent your cable box? This guy does to so he filed a class action lawsuit calling it an antitrust law violation…. Continue reading
While Wednesdays edition news related. Today’s links would be about broadband policy. Where should we be going where are we going and how do we get there. A Blueprint for Big Broadband – This is a document that has been mentioned here before by me (Jonathan). I quite like it… Continue reading
By: Mike Taylor and Jonathan Karras The fact that we will be doing a regular feature on broadband news shows that there is a lot of interest in this space. At a recent Qwest webinar, lots of business attendees mentioned slow network speeds are a major concern. Many people are… Continue reading