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ILECs Have New Excuses in New Buildings Best of ISP-Lists
[August 4, 2008] A member of the ISP-CLEC list finds an all new twist on an all-too-familiar lie from the phone company.

DSL Prime: Statistics and Lies Dave Burstein
[July 2, 2008] The numbers show that ILECs in North America are falling behind those in Europe and Asia, and they can also tell you some things you did not know already.

DSL Prime: Cable Wants a Worldwide Deal Dave Burstein
[June 23, 2008] Cable companies seek to standardize the set top box. Some CEOs face charges with substantial evidence, while Congress appears ready to pass a law to let others go free.

Warning: FCC Cracking Down on CPNI Alex Goldman
[June 6, 2008] If you offer CLEC or VoIP services and you don't know about the FCC's rules on private data, contact your lawyer immediately to learn about CPNI rules.

The Long Term Consequences of a Small Town Ruling Best of ISP-Lists
[May 21, 2008] A veteran telecom consultant warns that arcane rules allow ILECs of all sizes to work to mutual advantage to milk money from the federal government.

DSL Prime: New York City's 100 Percent Broadband Plan Dave Burstein
[May 9, 2008] It looks like Verizon will deliver fiber to 100 percent of New York City without any subsidy or tax credit. If so, it could set a positive pattern for the rest of the world.

DSL Prime: 50 Mbps Docsis, 200 Mbps GPON Dave Burstein
[April 15, 2008] Good plans to deploy real speeds, unless Wall Street prevents investment.

DSL Prime: Underperformance in Closed Markets Dave Burstein
[March 11, 2008] Kennard's Carlyle fails to grow subscribers in Hawaii. In Britain, government intervention will be required in order to equal the high standards in the rest of Europe.

DSL Prime: Tanks Protect Broadband President Accused of Corruption Dave Burstein
[February 28, 2008] If ZTE actually spent $100 million to obtain a $300 million contract, they overpaid—the going rate for graft worldwide is closer to $1 in bribes per $10 in contracts, with even better rates available in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.

DSL Prime: Wall Street Falls Dave Burstein
[January 23, 2008] DSL Prime examines the future of the Bells as Wall Street slowly passes its own flawed judgment.

Telco Dmarc Games Best of ISP-Lists
[January 10, 2008] This is just one more method the phone company can use to deny you a customer.

DSL Prime: FCC Chief: "I Failed My President" Dave Burstein
[January 8, 2008] Martin attempts an honest examination of his legacy, as technology improves and more of the world gets connected. Also, Apgar's data suggests the U.S. internet runs faster than previously believed.

Finding Fiber Best of ISP-Lists
[August 17, 2007] So you've got a customer who wants a big, expensive connection. How do you find the fiber to deliver it?

DSL Prime: Full Length HD Video Dave Burstein
[July 30, 2007] With innovative delivery methods and ever-increasing end-user bandwidth, the future of internet video looks nothing at all like the YouTube present.

Do Your Database Queries Yourself Best of ISP-Lists
[July 20, 2007] CLEC managers discuss avoiding LNP query fees.

DSL Prime: Closing the Internet to the Poor Dave Burstein
[June 28, 2007] While lack of competition partly explains why broadband is available in some places and not in others, poverty and corrupt government could explain the rest in places such as the U.S. and Japan.

DSL Prime: 100 Mbps Gunslingers Dave Burstein
[June 7, 2007] Companies like AT&T that plan to deliver only 6 Mbps will be shot down by the competition.

DSL Prime: Showdown Between AT&T and Alcatel Dave Burstein
[March 21, 2007] Two companies used to delivering monopoly pricing and monopoly lack of service start an argument, and the governments of France and the U.S. may get involved as layoffs loom for thousands.

DSL Prime: Competition's Everywhere But Here (and China) Dave Burstein
[March 9, 2007] The triple play in France is one-third to one-half the price in the U.S., and for a single reason. Meanwhile, China follows the U.S. re-monopolization pattern.

DSL Prime: Telecommunications Saves Lives Dave Burstein
[February 7, 2007] Keeping service affordable as well as available helps save the lives of people going through everyday events as well as those in disaster areas.

DSL Prime: VDSL's Problems Dave Burstein
[January 12, 2007] Crossover and backward compatibility issues mean that ADSL2+ is being deployed even though VDSL should be the superior technology.

DSL Prime: AT&T's Net Neutrality Offer is Just Hot Air Dave Burstein
[January 4, 2007] AT&T promises to deliver bits without traffic shaping, but the agreement excludes the parts of the network it can control.

DSL Prime: Pricing Lies Continue As Bell Labs Dies Dave Burstein
[December 8, 2006] Whenever the phone companies ask the government for more money, less competition, or permission to merge, they promise more investment and innovation, but in fact they are cutting back as fast as they can.

DSL Prime: AT&T Willing to Risk BellSouth Deal Dave Burstein
[November 28, 2006] While the Alcatel-Lucent deal is done, waiting only on rapprochement between two sets of spooks, the BellSouth deal might be over.

Putting Services on the Softswitch Alex Goldman
[November 28, 2006] There's plenty of innovation in today's announcement from Metaswitch: in-building BPL, triple play for college students, symmetric bandwidth, and fiber backhaul. But we think that the business case is in the services, not the hardware.

To CLEC or Not to CLEC? Alex Goldman
[November 14, 2006] A lawyer, a consultant, and a salesman walked into a room at ISPCON and gave valuable advice on whether or not an ISP should get CLEC status.

DSL Prime: Remarkable Margins in Telco DSL Dave Burstein
[November 6, 2006] As the buildout comes to a close, most of DSL revenue is pure profit.

DSL Prime: AT&T Dissing the President Dave Burstein
[October 19, 2006] The phone company thinks it can offer as "concessions" the things it's already doing, but observers are not surprised, because cable is already getting away with the same hoax.

DSL Forum's New Direction Alex Goldman
[September 14, 2006] The DSL Forum is ready to evolve from setting the standards for the pure DSL network to developing solutions for multi-media service delivery, making decisions that will determine the shape of the next generation of the internet.

DSL Prime: Apple Video = IPTV Crisis Dave Burstein
[September 13, 2006] Content offered over open networks will be cheaper and superior to content available over closed networks. Offerings from Amazon, Apple, and Google will use different delivery mechanisms to achieve a lower cost. The TelcoTV model is fragile, perhaps broken.

DSL Prime: AT&T's Ashcroft Dave Burstein
[September 11, 2006] In the latest news: AT&T and Verizon may need the best legal talent in the industry.

Regulation Briefs, July-August 2006 Kristopher Twomey
[September 7, 2006] A practicing law office provides key updates on telecommunications regulation across the U.S.

DSL Prime: China as Number One Dave Burstein
[September 7, 2006] China's top ILEC has more subscribers than the entire U.S., and almost all use DSL. China also leads the world in DSL manufacturing, and is moving upmarket into engineering.

DSL Prime: Forecast: Telcos and Cablecos Collude With Winks and Nods Dave Burstein
[August 25, 2006] As the EU acts to open yet another European market to telecoms competition, Canada and the U.S. act to close theirs.

Two Partner to Provide Security to Small Business Alex Goldman
[August 16, 2006] A security provider and a CLEC will announce a partnership tomorrow that will show how two companies can work together to benefit each other and their customers.

DSL Prime: Telcos and Governments Dave Burstein
[August 3, 2006] DT puts pressure on the German government, BT fears new competition, and in the one nation that faced down the pressure, South Korea, a truly 21st century network is being augmented. In the U.S., confident telcos and cablecos cut deployment and jobs while raising prices, pleasing the stock market.

Regulation Briefs, June 2006 Kristopher Twomey and Andrew Ganz
[July 27, 2006] A practicing law office provides key updates on telecommunications regulation across the U.S.

DSL Prime: India Blocks Yahoo, Google, Blogs Dave Burstein
[July 27, 2006] As the net neutrality debate heats up, a relatively liberal nation implements censorship. Of course, totalitarian regimes do this all the time, with U.S. equipment, without facing the press.

DSL Prime: Growth Will Slow Dave Burstein
[July 24, 2006] As broadband reaches the 75 percent mark in many customers, many of the remaining customers don't have it because they don't want it.

DSL Prime: AOL's Death Revisited Dave Burstein
[July 13, 2006] Bad government policies assassinated what was once the world's largest ISP.

DSL Prime: 100 Mbps VDSL Dave Burstein
[July 3, 2006] Only one U.S. telco even has plans to deliver 100 Mbps, and cable won't be at 100 Mbps in the U.S. until 2008.

DSL Prime: Tears in Munich, Sadness in Murray Hill Dave Burstein
[June 21, 2006] It's a changing of the telecom guard as Siemens and Lucent are acquired. Only the companies that invest in innovation will win the future, and right now few U.S. telecom companies are thinking beyond the next quarter.

DSL Prime: DSL Declines in Japan Dave Burstein
[June 9, 2006] While some nations are struggling to achieve nationwide DSL, the most advanced and most competitive are moving on to 100 Mbps fiber.

DSL Prime: Free Nationwide Wireless Dave Burstein
[May 22, 2006] One company has applied to the FCC for 20 MHz of spectrum in return for providing 95 percent of U.S. customers free coverage (after CPE purchase).

DSL Prime: Build Your Own NSA Computer Dave Burstein
[May 19, 2006] Supercomputers are cheap, and every phone call record can be stored in much less than a petabyte.

Book Excerpt: Next-Generation Network Services Robert Wood
[May 11, 2006] In this excerpt from a Cisco Press tome, we provide fundamental technical information about Ethernet technology.

Book Excerpt: Next-Generation Network Services Robert Wood
[May 9, 2006] In this excerpt from a Cisco Press tome, we provide fundamental technical information about DSL technology.

DSL Prime: AT&T, Verizon Promise Net Neutrality Dave Burstein
[April 5, 2006] If these telco CEOs are telling the truth, it would be good for the future of the United States.

ADTRAN Aims at Converged Networks Alex Goldman
[March 23, 2006] ADTRAN unveils its top of the line access concentrator built for the networks of the future.

Regulation Briefs, February 2006 Kristopher Twomey and Andrew Ganz
[March 9, 2006] A practicing law office provides key updates on telecommunications regulation across the U.S.

DSL Prime: BellSouth's 20,000 Percent iTunes Markup Dave Burstein
[February 15, 2006] As competition declines around the world, the Bells look to the next monopoly battleground, fighting the first skirmishes for total control of the internet.

Regulation Briefs, January 2006 Kristopher Twomey and Andrew Ganz
[February 9, 2006] A practicing law office provides key updates on telecommunications regulation across the U.S.

DSL Prime: Proprietary VDSL Dave Burstein
[February 1, 2006] VDSL equipment is being shipped, but it is not necessarily interoperable between vendors, creating headaches for the industry as carriers need to test equipment themselves, slowing purchases and deployments.

Netopia's Provisioning and Support Tool Alex Goldman
[January 24, 2006] DSL Forum standards enable CPE providers to aid ISPs in automating the provisioning process. We present Netopia's take on TR-069.

Verizon's Anti-Business Bureaucracy Best of ISP-Lists
[April 22, 2005] ISPs find that even when you want to do business with Verizon, you are faced with a thick tangle of bureaucracy.

IPTV: The Big Picture Gerry Blackwell
[April 15, 2005] There's a compelling business case but also a number of risks, so, in this article, we get the world's leading DSL analysts to weigh the pros and cons of IPTV.

Is Your Firm Prepared For Disaster? Jim Marsh 
Is your firm prepared for potential disaster? Columnist Jim Marsh investigates disaster recovery and offers significant food for thought on this timely topic.

Extending Optical Networks
Where No Fiber Has Gone Before  David Piscitello
EtherLECs that want to maximize the capital they've acquired could consider Free Space Optical to reach a potential customer base outside the reach of their fiber partners.

Why Metro Area EtherLECs
Should (Still) Worry about DDOS Attacks David Piscitello 
Most CLECs understand that denial of service attacks can result in equipment failure, business disruption, and erosion of customer confidence. Columnist Dave Piscitello analyzes the latest hacker trends.

Taking Care of CLEC Customers Jim Marsh
Customers are a CLEC's lifeblood. Columnist Jim Marsh discusses how to treat customers and compares them to a CLEC's precious jewels.