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British broadband got a big boost today, when British Telecom decided to spin off its local loop operations, giving rivals a fighting chance, reports The Guardian. Annelise Berendt, a senior analyst with Ovum tells the news paper that OpenReach (BT’s spin-off) “sows the seeds of a new industry structure … This is a major opportunity [...]

Palm is hosting a big event on Monday which will include Ed Colligan, Palm president and chief executive officer; Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect; and Denny Strigl, president and chief executive officer of Verizon Wireless. Add those three names together and to me it adds up to the much rumored Treo 700 [...]

US might have been the engine of growth for consumer broadband thus far, but from the looks of it the momentum is shifting away to non-US markets, according to data collected by Point Topic, a research firm. US has about 38 million subscribers, and as I had noted earlier, the recent slowdown in US broadband [...]

Covad just started hawking a 6 megabits/768 kbps TeleSoho service for about $108 a month… but don’t worry, you could soon get a better deal from Earthlink which will soon be pushing a 8 megabits per second connection with lots of voice for about $70 a minute month. That will help DSL retain its leadership… [...]

Oh now keeping in with this week’s previous posts, here are some “mandatory Google update.” In case you were looking here is a little job posting for Google TV. Also there is news that Google is leasing 270,000 square feet in a Chelsea telecom hotel. That’s 111 Eight Avenue by the way. This would be [...]

Call it the Skype Halo … VCs are looking at the big money takeout of Skype, and saying to themselves, we need to jump on the VoIP bandwagon. VoIP Service Providers of 2005 as DSL providers of 1996. That’s my skeptical view, but others might see it as an opportunity. Which possibly explains the $25 [...]