Equipment maker Ericsson says it can use copper wiring to transmit data at more than 500Mbps in the lab–but it requires channel bonding and short line lengths. While fiber is the future, DSL and copper wiring may have some life left in them yet.
Qwest (Q) CEO Ed Mueller says the company’s migration of its wireless service offering to Verizon (VZ) is going smoothly. Qwest is switching from selling a Qwest-branded wireless service in which it resold service from Sprint (S) to a co-branded offering from Verizon; the company started rolling out its new Verizon by Qwest wireless service two weeks ago.
Comcast (CMCSA) is simply crushing its telco competitors.
Consider a few data points. As I noted this morning, Comcast today disclosed that it added 555,000 new phone customers in the June quarter (499,000 when you back out losses in their circuit-switched segment), along with 278,000 high speed Internet customers and 320,000 digital cable customers.
The advent of DSL and cable modems gave rise to a slew of popular Web services, produced multibillion-dollar companies and reshaped consumers’ daily lives–all with relatively wimpy “broadband” connections that top out at a mere 3 megabits to 6 megabits per second (Mbps). Now, two of the largest ISPs in the United States are hoping to kick off yet another broadband renaissance, this time with home connections that promise to reach 50 Mbps to 100 Mbps, enabling a slew of high-definition content, better-quality video-sharing sites and even 3-D video. Call it Broadband 2.0.
Before Google gets too excited about open wireless access, it should look a little more closely at what did in AOL. The analogy is hardly perfect, but the new rules, promoted by Google, that will force Verizon to allow competitors to use its wireless network are in some way similar to those that forced phone companies to let rival Internet providers use their high-speed data services.
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