Archive for November, 2004

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Telecom Celebrates the Year to Come

Om Malik, Monday, November 29, 2004 at 12:08 PM PT Comments (0)

Everyone is predicting a party — before the shakeout.
By Om Malik, November 29, 2004
Business 2.0: Telecom executives have adopted a glass-half-full attitude these days. After three brutal years, 2004 proved to be a good-enough year, giving them hope that 2005 could actually be better. How can that be? After all, isn’t the industry suffering from [...]

Towerstream, discovered by NYT

Om Malik, Monday, November 29, 2004 at 7:20 AM PT Comments (1)

TowerStream, the fixed wireless company which has been making steady progress, has finally been discovered by The New York Times. I wrote about them in 2003, and have marveled at their progress. Times, like other media, continues to flub the facts. Tower Stream is a fixed wireless company which uses gear built with proprietary technology. [...]

Intel’s real problem: 2 Much Spin

Om Malik, Monday, November 29, 2004 at 7:00 AM PT Comments (0)

The New York Times : G. Dan Hutcheson, president of VLSI Research Inc., on Intel CEO-designate Paul Otellini. “As he came into power Intel tried to become a more aggressive marketing company,” he said. “They never seemingly made mistakes before and that was simply because they didn’t preannounce. This is the classic failure of a [...]

2Wire Plans an IPO

Om Malik, Monday, November 29, 2004 at 6:42 AM PT Comments (1)

2Wire which makes gateways and modems for DSL market is planning to go public in 2005, according to Venture Wire. The company could could get a lot of interest from Wall Street because of its expansion into the set-top box market, and its growing ties with SBC. I suspect, this IPO filing would be a [...]

VCs don’t create jobs

Om Malik, Sunday, November 28, 2004 at 8:15 PM PT Comments (0)

View From Silicon Valley: Overlooking the down years immediately after the bubble, where are all the new jobs today? With a VC funding rate +14.5% above the 1998 rate, Silicon Valley still down -94,100 jobs?!? We have nearly 100,000 fewer jobs than before the boom?? Ouch!

FT’s Sketchy FTTP Story

Om Malik, Sunday, November 28, 2004 at 8:07 PM PT Comments (0)

FT has an amazingly sketchy piece on Verizon and SBC’s FTTH plans. Nothing which you have not read anywhere else before!

Robin Hood of Broadband

Om Malik, Sunday, November 28, 2004 at 8:03 PM PT Comments (0)

The Copenhagen PostDanish multimillionaire founder of IT company Giga, Finn Helmer, wants Danish government to provide 10 gigabit. Finn Helmer made his fortune when his company, Giga, was sold to Intel for DKK 10 billion.

India’s World Phone VoIP

Om Malik, Sunday, November 28, 2004 at 8:02 PM PT Comments (3)

Hindu Business Line : Indian ISP, WORLD Phone Internet Services Private Ltd (WPISPL), has just launched World Phone Diamond, a corporate VoIP package that allows customers to place unlimited calls to the US and Canada for Rs 3,995 per month or about $87 a month. The service provides users a US phone number. Great business [...]

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