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St. Louis, Missouri has become the latest battleground in the war between cable and DSL broadband providers, according to this article in St. Louis Post Dispatch. It is a simple article, meant to be understood by non-techies, but it still paints a good picture of the demand for broadband in the tier-two cities.
St. Louis residents, [...]

Frank Quattrone, the fallen rock star of technology industry has gotten off with a mere slap on the wrist, for his alleged role in the whole telecom bubble. Reuters is reporting that Quattrone was fined a “whopping $30,000 and suspended from working in the securities industry for one year by a securities industry regulatory panel [...]

Earlier this week, I came across this post on Broadband Reports, which highlighted the recent trend in Europe of Barebones Broadband. Actually this is a pretty clever idea from companies which are selling the high-speed Internet service. Why? Take me as an example. I have SBC/Yahoo DSL but I have never used their portal or [...]

Amazing as it may seem, but the company which is losing customers by boatloads, thanks to number portability, i.e. AT&T Wireless is in middle of a massive bidding war. Following yesterday’s news that Cingular and AT&T Wireless are contemplating a merger, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that now NTT DoCoMo and Nextel have made [...]

From Nokia, a new version of their 6600 smartphone designed for use with AT&T Wireless’ new high-speed EDGE data network, reports Gizmodo. I just got an email from the PR head honcho over at AT&T Wireless who writes, “Nokia phone should be in stores March-April timeframe - no pricing yet.”

No Not That Iliad! Iliad, owner of France’s second largest broadband ISP, Free, is going to sell shares and raise €80m next week. The post IPO valuation is expected to be around one billion euros, reports The Guardian. The man who is going to benefit from it all: Xavier Niel, the chairman and founder [...]