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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DSL Prime: Proprietary VDSL Dave Burstein
[February 1, 2005] 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.

DSL Prime: A Truly Worldwide Web Means Less for U.S. and European Backbones Dave Burstein
[December 22, 2005] A further price collapse in the backbones, caused by regional links obviating the need for all internet traffic to pass thorugh the U.S. and Europe, means even more problems for carriers.

DSL Prime: 100 Mbps in North America and Europe Dave Burstein
[December 5, 2005] Technology originally designed for Asia, which leads the world in broadband speeds, is finally arriving in the broadband backwaters.

DSL Prime: Telcos Ready To Scrap Old Iron Dave Burstein
[November 30, 2005] The telcos of the world are now ready to admit that IP is cheaper. As the old buildings full of physical switches vanish, a new telecommunications world arrives.

DSL Prime: Moore's Law Too Fast For D.C. Dave Burstein
[November 18, 2005] Lower prices and greater bandwidth are a winning combination around the world, but regulators still have much to learn.

DSL Prime: VDSL Gear Drops to $66 for 100 Mbps Dave Burstein
[October 24, 2005] Now that even Walt Mossberg is complaining about DSL download speeds for iPod music, surely nobody doubts that customers want speed, and at current equipment prices, there's no excuse for failing to deliver.

DSL Prime: After Katrina Dave Burstein
[October 12, 2005] Washington D.C. needs to be willing to think outside the telco box in order to learn the telecommunications lessons Katrina taught.

DSL Prime: Politics Intervenes, Again Dave Burstein
[September 21, 2005] While Paris sees 100 Mbps service, SBC's representative in Congress thinks corporations should be allowed to block content on their networks. Luckily, citizen journalism is working, even as the big news outlets fall for the press releases.

DSL Prime: 50 Mbps VDSL for Germany Dave Burstein
[September 7, 2005] It was doable in 2003, but only now is Deutsche Telekom rolling out 50 Mbps VDSL service. Higher speeds are possible where the telco commits to a rebuild, shrugging off the copper shell in a massive writedown. Things are getting interesting in telecom.

DSL Prime: Sony's Unlimited P2P Deal Dave Burstein
[August 29, 2005] Now that content from Sony (and the BBC too) is finally available for broadband, surely residential users will be allowed true fiber speeds?

DSL Prime: BellSouth Fantasies Dave Burstein
[July 29, 2005] Surely everybody agrees that fiber is the right diet for DSL?

IPTV Grows in Europe Gerry Blackwell
[June 30, 2005] A well-funded startup has managed an impressive start, growing in part, ironically, thanks to the monopolies that rule its nation.

DSL Prime Mega Issue Dave Burstein
[June 29, 2005] We combine two issues of DSL Prime into one massive collection of data that shows that broadband can be deployed everywhere, and deployed faster. Also, a farewell to FCC internet guru Robert Pepper.

DSL Prime: New York Demands Dave Burstein
[June 10, 2005] New York City might be the next city to get a municipal broadband plan today, but Dave Burstein is telling the New York City Council today to work with private industry, not to try to go it alone.

DSL Prime: 100 Mbps Bell South VDSL2 Dave Burstein
[June 3, 2005] Don't try to order it tomorrow, but the nicest of the RBOCs plans to deliver real speed in the future.

DSL Prime: $10 VDSL Chips Dave Burstein
[June 2, 2005] The technology to deliver television over DSL is here—as is the technology to block competing VoIP and video feeds.

DSL Prime: Subscriber Numbers Dave Burstein
[May 18, 2005] The rate of growth of both DSL and VoIP continues to impress, but please don't overhype the numbers. They're impressive enough as they are.

DSL Prime: DSM Doubles Speeds Dave Burstein
[May 5, 2005] This is truly nifty. Dynamic Spectrum Management really can double DSL speeds.

DSL Prime: Google TV Dave Burstein
[April 19, 2005] One again, google redefines the business paradigm, this time altering the telecom universe, and peering experts might be interested in a job offer posted on the google website.

DSL Prime: Faster, Verizon! Go! Go! Dave Burstein
[April 12, 2005] A big, big backbone upgrade at Verizon shows that the U.S. could follow the broadband path blazed by Korea and Japan.

DSL Prime: One Added Every Second Dave Burstein
[April 1, 2005] DSL's global subscribership passes 100 million, and one more DSL subscriber is being added every second.

DSL Prime: Cable's Gigabit Modems Dave Burstein
[March 10, 2005] If cable continues to increase speeds while phone companies fail to change, the cable gigabit modem will prove to be a DSL killer.

DSL Prime News: Every 10 Seconds Dave Burstein
[February 18, 2005] With one new customer every 10 seconds, Britain proves that people want DSL—through anyone but the telco if the regulator will permit it.

DSL Prime: ST Out, Electriphy In Dave Burstein
[February 7, 2005] As one equipment maker drops out of the DSL business, another comes out of stealth mode.

DSL Prime: Every Village in Andra Pradesh Dave Burstein
[January 7, 2005] In India, they're planning to deliver DSL at a price that many will be able to afford. If they can wire every poor village in India, it's pretty obvious the telcos in Maine or Indiana can do the same thing.

DSL Prime: Forty Percent Faster With MIMO Dave Burstein
[January 3, 2005] New technology will allow telcos to cram even more data down that copper pipe.

DSL Prime: VDSL 2 or ADSL 3? Dave Burstein
[December 8, 2004] As networks around the world investigate new technologies, we can begin to guess who the winners and losers will be, though much remains to be seen.

DSL Prime: A $29 Billion Spending Gap Dave Burstein
[November 30, 2004] SBC has finally revealed in public a policy that many had privately suspected.

DSL Prime: Commissioner or Dogcatcher? Dave Burstein
[November 17, 2004] DSL Prime revises its nominations to the FCC, examines real CPE costs, and shows how other countries are plotting a path to nationwide broadband availability.

DSL Prime: Headlines for a Happy Company Dave Burstein
[November 16, 2004] As SBC prepares to risk it all on unproven technology, some companies around the world are rolling out real broadband, as shown in the happy headlines.

No Old Iron Alex Goldman
[November 4, 2004] Take a look at what you get when you build a VoIP service with the new technology of softswitches and SIP, incorporating the lessons of the CLEC buildout.

DSL Prime: Masayoshi's Threat to Regulators Dave Burstein
[November 3, 2004] The story of how one entrepeneur changed the regulatory climate in Japan is little known, but instructive. One person can make a difference.

DSL Prime: France Turns On 15 Mbps Dave Burstein
[October 27, 2004] It's just another reminder of how backward the broadband industry is the in the United States. We're certainly not number one in broadband.

DSL Prime: As Regulators Retire Dave Burstein
[October 14, 2004] In South Korea, a global pattern continues: when regulators retire, they get high paying jobs in the industry they regulated.

Startup Promises New Carrier Class DSL Hardware Alex Goldman
[October 4, 2004] Out of Canada, which (in DSL terms) is more advanced than the U.S., comes a startup with a nifty little DSLAM that, the company says, goes way beyond next generation DSL to deliver a network designed for services.

DSL Prime: China Down Dave Burstein
[September 23, 2004] While questions are being raised about China's economy, France's ILEC prepares to deploy 6 Mbps this year, and speeds up to 16 Mbps next year.

DSL Prime: 30 Mbps Is Not Enough Dave Burstein
[September 9, 2004] If you're an RBOC looking to the future, you're rolling out 30 Mbps access right now.

Future of TV Jennie Bourne and Dave Burstein
[August 27, 2004] We are pleased to offer the inaugural issue of the Future of TV newsletter to our readers—you'll need to subscribe to obtain future issues.

DSL Prime: Don't Let the Research Die Dave Burstein
[August 26, 2004] While South Korea surges in high tech DSL deployment, an icon of U.S. research is probably for sale.

DSL Prime: VDSL2 Dave Burstein
[August 20, 2004] DSL Prime reports that even though the standard is not final, elements of the technology are showing up in products that are already on the market.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[July 30, 2004] DSL Prime reports on competition, technology, and financial markets around the world.

DSL Prime: Count Real Speed, Not Angels on Pinheads Dave Burstein
[July 19, 2004] While nations such as Chile and India report progress, the RBOCs resort to rewriting the dictionary with the aid of their pet legislators.

DSL Prime: Buildouts Without Spin Dave Burstein
[July 7, 2004] In the U.S. different RBOCs have very different buildout plans. Don't listen to what they say; look at the capital expenditure plans in the SEC financial filings. This is also true of MCI.

Should I Buy a Softswitch? Max Smetannikov
[June 24, 2004] Connecting analog and digital voice networks is cheaper than it used to be, but that doesn't mean that a softswitch is for everyone.

DSL Prime: BT's New World Dave Burstein
[June 22, 2004] In big VoIP news, BT embraces VoIP, Japan's VoIP deployments continue, SUPERCOMM is here, and Om Malik's scoop is just part of a good VoIP blog. Apple shows what's next with its video iPod. Also, DSL stats from Point-Topic and the DSL Forum.

DSL Prime: TI Boosting 100 Mbps Dave Burstein
[June 22, 2004] U.S. users are ready to switch to broadband, just as vendors and ISPs begin preparations to bring 100 Mbps service to the U.S. On the other hand, Q2 subscriber adds in the U.S. are likely to disappoint.

Predicting the Shape of TV Over IP Gerry Blackwell
[June 18, 2004] TV over broadband is coming, but it could manifest itself in any of several different forms, with significant consequences for ISPs large and small.

DSL Prime: Unreliable Speeds Hit AOL UK Dave Burstein
[June 8, 2004] While AOL delivers much less than advertised, Britian (for the best of reasons) and China are censoring the Web. Companies and nations need to do more to deliver the real broadband Internet.

DSL Prime: Local Telcos and the Mob Dave Burstein
[June 4, 2004] While CenturyTel is caught up in a mob scam and should have known better, the telcos are preparing to ask D.C. for $60 billion. DSL Prime says there should be no price rises—and no USF.

DSL Prime: Verizon Unbundles DSL Dave Burstein
[May 28, 2004] DSL Prime praises Verizon, loses an SBC subscriber because of previous comments about the CEO, and anticipates 100 Mbps DSL as envisioned by Bell Canada. The DSL future is television, music, and more.

DSL Prime: Explosive Growth Dave Burstein
[May 19, 2004] DSL is growing very rapidly, especially in nations like France, Japan, and Canada, whose governments are encouraging competition.

DSL Prime: The World Turns Dave Burstein
[May 3, 2004] Competition comes to France, China and India are starting a massive growth spurt, and Japan and South Korea may have reached maximum penetration.

Security at Fiber Speeds Alex Goldman
[May 3, 2004] It's no secret that a gigabit network can challenge the processing power of gigahertz microprocessors. So when local fiber ISP Dalton Utilities started looking for a gateway security solution, there were few options.

DSL Prime: Better, Faster DSL Dave Burstein
[April 29, 2004] In this issue of DSL Prime, we talk about all that's working to encourage DSL deployment—and the one thing that isn't: the U.S. government.

GWI's Big Lucent Buy Alex Goldman
[March 29, 2004] GWI, one of the oldest ISPs on the planet, has just invested in a significant DSL infrastructure upgrade. We spoke to the company's founder and president to find out why.

DSL Prime: British Telecom Cannibals Dave Burstein
[March 24, 2004] BT embraces VoIP, even though it admits the technology will hurt sales on its legacy network. Even the U.S. RBOCs are finally running fiber.

DSL Prime: As AOL Dies Dave Burstein
[March 1, 2004] As AOL exits dialup, and U.S. RBOCs continue to fail to invest in broadband, the DSL market in China grows because that's where the investment is, not because of China's cheap labor.

DSL Prime: Qwest DSL Unclothed Dave Burstein
[February 23, 2004] Recently, we suggested that Qwest was obstructing DSL sales by requiring DSL customers to also buy phone service. Last week, much to our joy, Qwest proved us wrong.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[February 13, 2004] A rare victory for small business in VoIP should not obscure the fact that DSL competition is fading across America.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[January 30, 2004] A close look at what news is real in the DSL industry—and what isn't.

UNIX at the Core of the Net Alex Goldman
[January 9, 2004] Extreme Networks' latest product is the result of over three years of secret research. The company aims to enable a revolution in the delivery of converged services.

DSL Prime: Qwest Prices Kill DSL VoIP Dave Burstein
[January 5, 2004] No other observer has noted this salient fact: at some telcos, DSL prices and monopoly bundle strategies will hold back the VoIP technology wave, harming independents like Vonage.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[December 29, 2003] Thanks in part to the DSL Forum, a global DSL industry is cooperating on standards as speeds increase and innovation continues. This week, the pace is being set by South Korea—and Canada.

Netopia Brings DSL and Wi-Fi Together ISP-Planet Staff
[December 26, 2003] Always looking for a DSL CPE advantage, Netopia has added easy WLAN installation to the portfolio of services its equipment enables telcos to offer.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[December 19, 2003] The Bells may have finally gone too far this time. Do they know it? Also: the uncertain finances of Masayoshi Son, and how RBOCs buy regulators.

ISPs Tie Regulatory and Voice Strategy Into
Softswitch Max Smetannikov
[December 19, 2003] ISPs can join the gorillas by buying a $170,000 box and taking on the challenges of a vast array of new services.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[December 4, 2003] Voice and even television over DSL are being deployed abroad, and the telcos may even allow it to happen in the U.S.

Drool Boxes on the Show Floor Alex Goldman
[November 17, 2003] Now playing in Phoenix, Arizona: A trade show on whose show floor is a greater amount of bandwidth than is available to many of the nations of the world.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[November 3, 2003] As Japan goes to 40 Mbps, Masayoshi Son challenges the West to deliver one-tenth the speed.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[October 6, 2003] The next generation of DSLAMs costs $60 per port. Prices are dropping, but there are doubts about vendors' tests. And Michael Powell has a secret.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[September 19, 2003] Technology itself, and deployment in Britain and Japan, are bright spots in the DSL industry, but strange accounting continues to darken the DSL future in the U.S.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[September 10, 2003] The new DSL deployment numbers from telcos and equipment makers include some surprises, while promising new DSL technologies may help DSL compete with cable.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[September 4, 2003] Covad should be able to raise money on the equity markets, SBC is stabbing its CEO in the back, VDSL2 is coming, and Yahoo BB adds games.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[August 22, 2003] The Bells continue to solicit bids on their purported fiber build while competition is actually working in Japan—the only major DSL market in the world where the incumbent is far behind.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[August 20, 2003] As VDSL technology continues to advance, and speeds increase around the world, ILECs in the U.S. and UK are cutting jobs, denying that doing so will reduce service quality.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[August 4, 2003] Subscriber numbers were roughly flat in the U.S. Competitors with good service, such as Speakeasy and Bulldog, still have a chance in the monopoly-friendly environments of Europe and the U.S.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[July 16, 2003] The markets seem to believe that a cable-DSL duopoly will provide price competition, but the ILECs seem to disagree. Meanwhile, hundred million dollar scandals at the telcos continue.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[July 14, 2003] Will the markets prevent the Bells from investing? The answer appears to be that the markets will reward companies that invest billions in the future. And the future is now.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[July 3, 2003] As alternatives to DSL proliferate, the Bells need to choose to invest in the future while they still can, before the cable companies take their customers, and wireless becomes viable.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[June 19, 2003] DSLAM prices are now so low that even industry holdout SBC may invest in new equipment. Meanwhile, the VDSL standards storm continues with a new development: lawsuits.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[June 11, 2003] Cable should maintain its advantage over DSL in the near future, but only in the U.S. where the RBOCs seem determined to price themselves out of competition and maintain monopoly margins.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[June 9, 2003] Bundles will begin to harm the competition in the U.S. Europeans know that their DSL will soon be one-fiftieth the speed of Korea's—has the U.S. even noticed?

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[June 3, 2003] Price wars between DSL and cable are nothing new. What is new is the possibility of an actual fiber deployment after two decades of broken promises.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[May 28, 2003] Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast, seems determined to build the telcos' worst nightmare: a network, built today, capable of serving future demand for personalized video on demand, including HDTV, through multiple 5 Mbps connections.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[May 22, 2003] Verizon gets ready to build as one company that bet on the CLECs is bought out by a buyer of distressed enterprises.

Level 3 Tees Up VoIP Launch Max Smetannikov
[May 15, 2003] Almost a footnote in its press releases, Level 3's ISPCON announcement that it will replace 800 numbers with local phone numbers is actually the first step in an ambitious, sweeping plan to introduce VoIP-enabled services.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[May 7, 2003] DSL Prime reports that the world is going to broadband—but the U.S. and the UK will continue to lag as competition is stifled. Also, Bells should not count as "subscribers" anyone whose line doesn't work.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[April 28, 2003] Recent price drops in DSL do not eliminate the price rises since the start of Powell's reign—and leave DSL more expensive than cable, even before factoring in RBOC DSL's lower bandwidth.

Shared Hosting Automation for Big Data Centers ISP-Planet Staff
[April 9, 2003] Sitepak's new software plugs into an existing network, providing a layer of automation to any data center that already has all of the Internet functions (such as mail, billing, and DNS).

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[April 2, 2003] Brand new DSL technology could—really—provide subscribers 100 Mbps in each direction. Verizon tries to please the FCC by planning a buildout, while SBC refuses to build as it lobbies the states for total domination.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[March 28, 2003] AOL is spending $35 million on ads—enough money to double the speeds of every broadband customer—but even that would be slower than the speeds now common in Japan.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[March 21, 2003] The Bells continue to claim that they're not committed to DSL, but their actions outside of Washington, D.C. contradict what they're saying to Tauzin and the regulators.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[March 12, 2003] The Bells, if they are smart, will invest to provide better services and better rates. Qwest's DSL price is half that of Verizon, but still twice the rate common in Japan.

DSL Prime Reports from the FCC Dave Burstein
[February 26, 2003] Extra! Extra! U.S. telcos get DSL monopoly, must share some local voice! Early comments, mine included, were wrong. Rather than a setback, the Bells won a massive victory.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[February 21, 2003] All around the world, DSL deployment continues. Prices are lower and speeds are faster outside the U.S. One ISP, Speakeasy, does, however, manage to provide real customer service.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[February 12, 2003] All around the world, DSL deployment continues. A viable, competitive market is emerging in France. But the future is in question as standards development starts to bog down.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[January 30, 2003] A leak from the FCC says a deal on line sharing has been reached because the RBOCs are about to build fiber, and therefore no longer hate sharing their outdated copper networks.

DSL Prime News: The Inside Source Dave Burstein
[January 9, 2003] While the United States makes do with speeds of 1.5 Mbps, the rest of the world delves into VDSL. As churn falls elsewhere, certain U.S. companies are more hated every day as they fail their customers but continue to bill them.