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Gfast is gigabit broadband. 5G, 4G Wireless. Enter Part of Title . AT&T chooses 400-700 meg G.fast for 5M FTTP homes. Not a gigabit but pretty darn good. AT&T, assured the DirecTV merger is going through, is about to go public with the long-planned upgrade of 5M U-Verse homes to hundreds of megabits. They will take four years and reach about 15% of their homes. Gigabit gear won't be available for several years. Gets between 285 and 402 Mbps downstream and between 85 and 109 Mbps upstream. Results dep...
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First G.fast line: 536 Megabits down
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Gfast is gigabit broadband. 5G, 4G Wireless. Firm commitments from incumbent: BT (10M), Belgacom, Swisscom, Ad from Sckipio. Austria, Bezeq Israel, Chunghwa Taiwan, (U.S.) Century and Windstream. Smaller carriers: Canada, Germany, Norway, Finland, Japan. Incumbent likely: France, Germany, Australia (not shown) and Panama. Below: Country by country details. First G.fast line: 536 Megabits down. Thanks to Mathew Pitt-Bailey for getting me the more accurate data. Vienna, 15 October 2014. Thomas Arnoldner, C...
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Double speed G.fast with bonding
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Gfast is gigabit broadband. 5G, 4G Wireless. Firm commitments from incumbent: BT (10M), Belgacom, Swisscom, Ad from Sckipio. Austria, Bezeq Israel, Chunghwa Taiwan, (U.S.) Century and Windstream. Smaller carriers: Canada, Germany, Norway, Finland, Japan. Incumbent likely: France, Germany, Australia (not shown) and Panama. Below: Country by country details. Double speed G.fast with bonding. The speed doubling may be more important protecting the low end of G.fast. Telcos may want an advertised answer to h...
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TNO Ultrabroadband in The Hague, 16-19 June
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Gfast is gigabit broadband. 5G, 4G Wireless. Firm commitments from incumbent: BT (10M), Belgacom, Swisscom, Ad from Sckipio. Austria, Bezeq Israel, Chunghwa Taiwan, (U.S.) Century and Windstream. Smaller carriers: Canada, Germany, Norway, Finland, Japan. Incumbent likely: France, Germany, Australia (not shown) and Panama. Below: Country by country details. TNO Ultrabroadband in The Hague, 16-19 June. Say hello to the round fellow with a beard and the irrepressible Jennie Bourne. Industry pictures and pr.
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DSL
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Bharti reaches 2M VDSL but India will always be a wireless network. Reliance Jio is currently running fiber home, designed for a gig but apparently mostly sold at 100 megabits. Unbundling obsolete in the age of vectoring: an inconvenient truth. That was the near-ubiquitous model for unbundling until recently. Currently in the EU, monopolies are being allowed to charge far more, after Kroes and Richards were blinded by a lobbying campaign brilliantly orchestrated by Luigi Gambardella. With HD TV looking p...
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3M fiber, 19M LTE June adds: China Mobile's broadband mensis mirabilis
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3M fiber, 19M LTE June adds: China Mobile's broadband mensis mirabilis. China is now 1/3rd of the broadband Internet. Over 240M are now connected by fiber home. The 3M added by CM in June was more than the entire rest of the world. It surpassed the previously monthly record, 2.65M at CM in March. China Telecom added 590,000, China Unicom 250,000, and China Mobile 3,189,000, for a total net gain over 4M. LTE in China in July reached 600M LTE subscriptions. The Chinese networks are built to handle this vol...
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Upstream 300 meg+ in 2017 at Comcast
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Upstream 300 meg in 2017 at Comcast. Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Comcast's fastest. Jorge Salinger is ready as soon as the vendors can deliver. Casa Systems has already demonstrated 400 megabits upstream and will soon show 600 megabits. They will only offer gigabits downstream in 2016, Daniel Frankel reports. Since hardware can be upgraded very cheaply, it will be easy to support much higher data rates. Comcast is so supportive they have taken warrants in Harmonic and Tony Werner is in the press release. Tuesd...
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AT&T fiber taking on other telcos
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AT&T fiber taking on other telcos. Windstream, Fairpoint watch out. T plans 3M lines of fiber to the premises (including G.fast) each of the next four years, expecting to get to 20-25% of their territory. Some of them will be "out of territory," including some of the 2M homes they have reached with fiber already. I can't recall either AT&T (almost half the U.S.) or Verizon (about a quarter) expanding this way in the last decade. That's exactly what AT&T is doing,. To do a fiber build similar to Verizon F...
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40 Million Comcast Gigabit Homes. Really.
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40 Million Comcast Gigabit Homes. Really. The story was picked up by the Washington Post and a dozen others. Everyone in broadband has known for years gigabit cable was on the way and now the big papers are getting the message. Shared" speeds will be 500 megabits down 95 % of the time, I predict. That's similar to the 400-700 megabit speeds of AT&T's coming "gigaclear" G.fast fiber to the basement. Videotron and Suddenlink have begun. Gigabit Cable Explained (from 2013). 200 most places) but real. Freein...
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Altice/Cablevision replacing entire DOCSIS network with fiber home
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Altice/Cablevision replacing entire DOCSIS network with fiber home. First major cableco to make the switch. The cost will be high but investors seem happy. The stock went up in a down market. I found the move particularly surprising because Altice is very heavily leveraged after paying well above market for Cablevision and others. Patrick Drahi is of the John Malone school: high leverage and risk, GAAP losses, prayer. That is working well in today's low interest environment. An a rticle by Doug Dawson.