Comments on: Globally, Now 400M Broadband Subscribers

By: In 2011 Mobile Broadband Will Surpass Wired Broadband : Broadband News and Analysis «

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:02:05 +0000

[...] 1998, long before the smartphone, global mobile subscribers — I wouldn’t call it broadband back then — numbered a s…, who was covering the nascent market at the time. Given slow networks, limited infrastructure and [...]

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Mobile Broadband Will Trigger Global Innovation : — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:56:20 +0000

[...] a quick and easy process. Faster speeds have resulted in more video online as well, leading to the creation of companies such as YouTube, Hulu and even Skype. We’re going to see a similar trend emerge in the mobile [...]

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Mobile Broadband Will Trigger Global Innovation — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:48:48 +0000

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:34:08 +0000

@Andreas I like your idea of broadband users versus broadband subscribers. It would be hard to get the exact details on those numbers. If anyone really knows about these numbers, then maybe they can leave a link here in the comments

By: Dhall

Dhall — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:26:42 +0000

The way we watch television is certainly changing. I was just reading about some of what was discussed at TelecoTV this year. Take a look

http://www.telecommagazine.com/newsglobe/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_4606

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Ya hay 400 millones de conexiones ADSL en el mundo » eConectados — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:15:27 +0000

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By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:58:24 +0000

One other thing – I just clicked through to the article about NewTeeVee and bitrates and compression. I do agree that companies will find ways to deliver video more efficiently, using less bandwidth. But if I accept your premise – that cable is just trying to protect it’s video content – then in order to compete and innovate it has to provide more of what kind of video the customer wants. That is more HD conent, Interactive Television, ect. – which also fills up space on the wire. I don’t think cable is about to roll over and surrender the video space. Besides, cable networks are optimized for the delivery of video in a way that IPTV (delivering video over the standard internet protocols) is not. We are still a long ways away from getting the same experience of watching an HD video over the internet as from cable tv.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:36:48 +0000

No meter on bandwidth? You would agree bandwidth is a limited resource, correct? So how can the major ISPs operate long term, as certain people consume more of this resource than others? In practice, if we keep a flat fee for unlimited bandwidth, most people’s connection would slow down which would hurt the emergence of new technologies like youtube and skype.
Also, I’m curious how you think we are followers in the broadband race. Wimax was developed (and already deployed in some places) in the US.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:24:42 +0000

Would be interesting to see graphs of broadband subscriptions vs broadband users over time. In 1998 the number of users must have been 10-100 times higher than subscribers. Think of all the students who had broadband in their apartements and dorm rooms for free. And now ten years later people are starting to have one personal mobile broadband subscription, and a wired one that the family shares. It has been a wild ride, and at the same time it has just begun!

By: Ted Murphy

Ted Murphy — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:06:01 +0000

There should definitely be a meter on bandwidth. Of course.