Why isn’t the Qwest case moving fast enough? Light Reading makes a strong argument about this in a recent piece which addmitedly is as skimpy on details as the Business Week article, but still it quite a nice precis of the whole thing. Perhaps time to… Read More »
Bio:Om is the founder of GigaOM Network, where he is currently a senior writer. He has worked as a senior writer for Forbes.com, Red Herring and Business 2.0. He is the author of Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist. Om blogs about baseball, life and music on his personal blog, OmIs.Me. Follow him on Twitter @om
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Yet another Number portability story, this time in The New York Times’ Circuits section. (link via Gizmodo) Read More »
Conference, Cudlow & Kramer, Marketwatch, TheStreet.com, New York Times and a sharp increase in the VoIP stocks, hell it seems like we are in a bubble. Redialing the Internet Frenzy in today’s Wall Street Journal sums up the madness nicely. Amongst the stocks that have rocketed… Read More »
Jim Louderback, a columnist at eWeek, pipes in with his take on why the phone companies are dead. He makes his argument by pointing to the emergence of communication chips that combine GSM, and Wi-Fi functions. bq. Hardly. A mostly overlooked announcement on the outskirts of last… Read More »
The state’s public utility regulators will meet in a much-anticipated showdown with Internet phone providers, reports CNET News.com. This is a big event leading up to the December 1. 2004 forum being held by the FCC. Companies like Net2Phone, Vonage, and 8×8 are expected to make strong… Read More »
Our friends at Packetology have sent us a report which points at super growth of CDMA technologies in India. Indian mobile user base has grown from 8 to 18 million in one year, and according to Packetology adds that “All signs suggest growth in India will… Read More »
Total # of Broadband Subscribers: 22 million (C/Net) Total # of PC households: 70 million Total # of American Households: 106 million Read More »
Why the PhoneCos are completely screwed!
And I am surprised I missed this one Read More »
Forget FTTH, it is DSL all the way
Light Reading has a very accurate assessment of the Baby Bells’ broadband plans and the role DSL is going to play as they develop strategies of survival. bq. Analysts say RBOCs are doing so well with DSL that they’d be hard-pressed to start displacing it in favor… Read More »
Shattered Glass is Ghetto ÏFabulistÓ
This past weekend, I had a chance to see the much talked about movie about Stephen Glass Scandal, Shattered Glass. It was interesting to watch the Hollywood versions of the events, which transpired at Forbes Digital, where I worked at the time the story broke.… Read More »
