Archive for June 19th, 2008

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Time to explore different ways to bring affordable, high-speed broadband service

The London Times criticizes the UK’s broadband strategy (or lack thereof) by citing to a small Dutch town, Nuenen, whose fiber to the home network is the envy of many communities in Europe. Nuenen’s model is unusual: a public-private cooperative owns and runs the FTTH network and the subscribers have voting rights. Last year, the network generated a profit of €1 million on revenues of €4 million. But, the Times asks (and indeed most of us are asking too), why…

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Clearwire WiMax gets September start date in U.S.

Well, we said it was Game On, WiMax, and now we know the when: According to Sprint/Clearwire WiMax guru Barry West, the “new” Clearwire network will officially launch this September in Baltimore, followed by Chicago and Washington D.C. in the fourth quarter.

As I told a reporter here at the NXTcomm show, nothing beats proof of concept and the sooner the better for the New Clearwire as its battle against the still-under-development technology LTE gets underway. More thoughts on WiMax when…

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