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Having made sure that there is little room for competition in legacy and wired broadband businesses, the FCC it seems is using wireless as the iron rod to keep cable and phone companies in check. In order to promote broadband wireless, FCC is opening up more spectrum. That doesn’t take away from the fact that [...]

If you read my post about Trump Towers’ being wired by GigaBeam’s WiFiber, I pointed out that NuVisions Digital Voice website looked much like Vonage’s website. Look at the terms of service and it says Vonage all over it. And mean literally. I think is a secret Vonage play - work with independent service [...]

Almost Broadband comes to Zambia, Africa, via fixed wireless. iConnect, an ISP has started selling 512 kbps connections using non-line of sight fixed wireless technology. Fixed wireless technologies are actually slowly making their way into non developed markets, especially in Asia, Africa and Latin America. iConnect is part of the Africonnect group, and according to [...]

Business 2.0: The size of a pack of chewing gum, the USB flash drive combined cheap flash memory with omnipresent USB connection technology to kill off the floppy drive. At first blush these devices are poster children for the curse of commoditization. Falling prices have boosted adoption — nearly $4.5 billion worth of these [...]

Looks like the distressing telecom business reality is catching up with XO Communications. I was reading through their SEC filings and came across something interesting. Essentially what it said was that unless XO meets some minimum EBITDA requirements, it could not comply with a financial convenant related to its debt. It blew it in 2004, [...]

PSP is getting a lot of developer attention. I have posted about some earlier, but here comes another classy piece of work. PocketMac for Playstation Portable (PSP), will automatically sync Mac users digital music, photos and contacts to their PSPs. Until this product was created, Mac users had no way to sync [...]