DSL Prime News Weekly: The Inside Source  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.

June 23, 2008Cable 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.

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.

April 15, 2008 Good plans to deploy real speeds, unless Wall Street prevents investment.

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.

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.

January 23, 2008 DSL Prime examines the future of the Bells as Wall Street slowly passes its own flawed judgment.

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.

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.

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.

June 7, 2007 Companies like AT&T that plan to deliver only 6 Mbps will be shot down by the competition.

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.

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.

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.

January 12, 2007 Crossover and backward compatibility issues mean that ADSL2+ is being deployed even though VDSL should be the superior technology.

January 4, 2007 AT&T promises to deliver bits without traffic shaping, but the agreement excludes the parts of the network it can control.

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.

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.

November 6, 2006 As the buildout comes to a close, most of DSL revenue is pure profit.

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.

September 29, 2006 Verizon TV product needs just one more feature to make it a cable killer. If Verizon fails to go for the kill quickly, cable can fight back and win, eventually. And, from Paris, the tale of a co-founder who admitted his embezzlement.

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.

September 11, 2006 In the latest news: AT&T and Verizon may need the best legal talent in the industry.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

July 13, 2006 Bad government policies assassinated what was once the world's largest ISP.

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.

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.

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.

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).

May 19, 2006 Supercomputers are cheap, and every phone call record can be stored in much less than a petabyte.

April 5, 2006 If these telco CEOs are telling the truth, it would be good for the future of the United States.

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.

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.