Service or application providers faced with disruptive new competition typically can take one ot two fundamental paths to counter the new competition. They can enhance the product under assault, especially when the attacker is “disrupting from below” with an offer…
The typical employed person, in a wide range of countries, is connected to the Internet nearly 10 hours a day, often by Wi-Fi, with mobile devices used inside the home about 2.5 hours a day, as well, two studies suggest….
One doesn’t hear quite so much about “digital divides” as was common a decade ago. One suspects that is because the supply of communications, both voice and data, is a problem the world seems capable of solving. Some of us…
Keep it in perspective, but in the second quarter of 2012 the U.S. subscription video entertainment business, accustomed to growing every year, suffered its biggest-ever decline in subscribers. Net U.S. subscriber additions for subscription TV fell by 350,000 in the…
Some stories are important because “nothing happened.” That was the case for the “Y2K” information technology scare, and seems to be the case for broadband and Internet access in London during the Olympics. After a full week, there have been…
Google Fiber is not the only instance of third party providers trying to create a third alternative broadband access alternative to cable and telco providers. The Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) is building a wholesale fiber-optic network that offers…
PriceWaterhouseCoopers predics that 27 percent of Australians will have an IPTV service by 2016. That might not strike you as startling, except that entertainment video subscriptions historically have been much less popular in Australia than in many other markets. Right…
Telco and cable revenue trends in the U.S. market continue to illustrate a fundamental principle some of us believe is foundational for both telcos and cable companies working in developed markets. And that fundamental reality is that any service provider…
About 33 percent of people who have “cut the cord” on their video entertainment subscriptions would not buy again, even if prices were cut in half, a study by TechBargains.com has found. That opinion illustrates the level of growing dissatisfaction…
If Google Fiber winds up being a profitable venture, as Google says it is aiming to achieve, it probably will have to operate its business much as does Sonic.net, a facilities-based Internet service provider that sells 1-Gbps broadband access for…
The network neutrality issue has taken an interesting new turn in the United Kingdom, where a number of the leading Internet service providers have agreed to a voluntary code of practice with interesting implications. The code generally requires them to…
Is fixed network broadband access a discrete product, or a series of discrete products? The answer matters, as we can assume any product, including broadband access, will have a product life cycle. But we have to agree on what “the…
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