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I received an interesting email this week from Randy Fuller, director of strategic marketing officer at Tekelec, a telecoms software provider. He was recapping the news that three of Europe’s largest telecoms operators had held a summit with the European Union (EU) to discuss targets to improve broadband speeds across the continent by 2020. As we know, serious capital investment on behalf of the operators is required if the EU is to achieve its targets. The operators would argue that in order... -
The telecoms industry as we know it is about to go through some massive changes, and some of them are going to be ugly, very ugly. A ‘colliding worlds’ scenario is taking shape in Europe that will have ramifications worldwide because it includes network operators, regulators, online content providers and a hapless public. The abridged story goes something like this. Ms Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner responsible for the European Union’s digital agenda, raised concerns that... -
Fixed-line and mobile operators in Europe are facing quite a dilemma. On the one hand they are being pressured by European Commissioner Neelie Kroes to improve their network broadband speeds and capacity and that they are not investing enough to meet EU targets. On the other, their customers are wanting to use their internet connections for more and more bandwidth-hungry applications, especially video, and not have to pay extra for the privilege. Betwixt the two are the over the top (OTT) players... -
Despite all the hooha about ‘net neutrality’ rules launched by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just before Christmas, the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday not only voted against them but also brought into question the FCC’s ability to regulate how Internet service providers manage their networks in future. The vote of 240 to 179 was mainly along party lines with Republicans taking a stand against the Obama administration’s favor of the legislation. The resolution... -
Forget all about net neutrality, we’ve now seen the first real example of ‘net neutering’ with Egypt flicking the ‘kill switch’ on the internet . How terrible, how frightening, how undemocratic, how primitive in this day and age - I hear you ask? Hang on a minute, isn’t that what President Obama was on about last year. Wasn't it proposed he had the same rights in times of national emergency? Even though the details are still sketchy around the Egyptian action... -
The Insider had almost given up hope that someone was going take a stand against the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules that were announced purposefully in the midst of the holiday season. It took a while but Verizon has made the first move in challenging what was starting to look like a ‘fait accompli’. In fact, Verizon has gone all out and filed a suit in a federal appeals court in Washington D.C. seeking to overturn the rules arguing that the the FCC doesn’t have the authority... -
Following hot on the heels of one of England’s greatest sporting triumphs, beating Australia on its home turf in cricket, is good old British Telecom thumbing its nose at those other ex-colonials, the Americans, and the net neutrality bunkum. In the best spirit of capitalism and free-trade, BT Wholesale has devised a specialized content delivery network that it will be offering to ISPs to enable uninterrupted delivery of bandwidth-hungry applications like video. Named Content Connect, the service... -
FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, had his Christmas wish granted when ‘net neutrality’ rules were voted in this week 3-2. The net neutrality vote was hardly unanimous, being carried along party lines with Democrat and Republican Commissioners voting for and against, respectively. Yet, it seems the real debate may have only just begun with the Republican majority in Congress already having attached an amendment to a spending bill that would block the FCC from enforcing the net neutrality... -
What happens if a mobile network cracks under the strain of a ‘data tsunami’? This was one of the most hotly debated topics at the recent ‘Monetizing Bandwidth’ roundtable held at MW Americas last month. Although most attendees thought it was some way off, for one operator it has happened way sooner than expected, and the PR damage resulting from it has reached the equivalent of ‘8’ on the Richter scale. I don’t wish to exacerbate the problems already facing... -
The great WikiLeaks scandal has less to do with the publication of state secrets sent as cables from US Embassies around the world and their supposed threat to national security and more with how the secrets got out in the first place. Whatever the motives of WikiLeaks ‘founder, Julian Assange, he has single-handily made a mockery of the so-called secureness of top secret information. Without wishing to get into the pros and cons of whether his actions are right or wrong, the fact is that he...
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