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Last updated: April 6, 2007 6:15:44 PM Pacific Time
NY Times: Increasingly, the Bells See Their Future on a Screen. In the coming months, the Bell telephone companies, including SBC and Verizon, will start selling television programming in their most recent effort to crack a market in which they have had almost no presence. The cable industry, meeting here this week for its annual trade show, is already bracing for the assault on its prime turf. WIRED: Why Your Broadband Sucks. Lawrence Lessig. The solution is not to fire private enterprise; it is instead to encourage more competition. Communities across the country are experimenting with ways to supplement private service. And these experiments are producing unexpected economic returns. Information Week: Vonage Complaining Of VoIP 'Blocking'. Leading Voice over IP service provider Vonage Holdings has complained to the Federal Communications Commission that competitors are blocking the use of its service, according to FCC chairman Michael Powell and others close to the company. NY Times: AT&T Looks Beyond 'Number, Please'. As chief technology and chief information officer, Mr. Eslambolchi is the technological strategist behind AT&T's ambitious turnaround plan to become a data transmission company selling an array of software products like network security systems - with phone calls being just one of many digital services. The Economist: Plugging in, at last. Why bother with broadband over power lines? The FCC is keen because it will bring into the broadband market a third group of competitors, after telephone firms, which use supercharged phone lines to deliver broadband, and cable-TV operators, which use their cables for the same purpose. Technology Review: To Fight, Verizon Switches. With such an infrastructure in place, the theory holds, the longtime supplier of plain old telephone service can change into a new kind of company, one that can compete in a world where media giants like Comcast are blending services such as television, telephone, and Internet access. PC World: SBC Tunes Into IP-Based TV. The fiber network will reach 18 million potential customers by the end of 2007 and will be able to deliver to a household four simultaneous streams of TV, including high-definition TV, in addition to IP-based data and voice services, the company says. EE Times: Verizon expands fiber network to six more states. Customers in parts of Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania will join others already announced in California, Florida and Texas. Business and residential customers on the FTTP network will be able to subscribe to Verizon's FiOS broadband Internet access service for downstream connection speeds of up to 30 Mbits/s... SJ Mercury: Buoyed by regulatory wins, Bells promise fiber -- again. For at least a decade, phone companies have been promising to rewire America with fiber-optic cables. Now, with a romp of regulatory victories in hand, the regional Bells say they're free to make good on that ambitious plan to bring lightning-fast Web and TV services to all the nation's homes. EE Times: FCC adopts rules for broadband over power lines. The FCC voted Thursday to modified its rules to open the door to the widespread deployment of broadband access over power lines. The action is designed to both foster broadband penetration and increase competition while enhancing management of the national power grid. NY Times: Phone Line Alchemy: Copper Into Fiber. The new offering is part of a multibillion-dollar bet by Verizon and the other Bell companies. They are gambling that by going door to door to replace century-old copper wire technology with high-speed fiber optic lines, they can hang onto their most valuable asset: a direct line into the home of each customer.
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