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AT&T CallVantage Major Outage...

I have received an unconfirmed report of a major outage for AT&T CallVantage, which is AT&T's VoIP broadband service. I was emailed the following: "At 2:00 pm the voice system is now stating that they have a major outage." Gee,...

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ADSL to reach 100Mbps speed!

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, a 29-year old Australian wiz kid, Dr.Papandriopoulos, has found a way to squeeze more broadband juice out of your phone line, which will improve DSL speeds. Apparently, the technology eliminates a lot of the...

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FCC Displeased with U.S. Broadband Deployment Rate

According to an eWeek article, the FCC is not pleased with the rate at which broadband is being deployed in the U.S. According to eWeek, the FCC has started a Notice of Inquiry into whether broadband services are being provided...

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Google Announces Free In-Home Wireless

Google is now offering free in-home wireless broadband service as part of their TiSP beta. According to Google, "Sick of paying for broadband that you have to, well, pay for? Introducing Google TiSP (BETA), our new FREE in-home wireless broadband...

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D-Link DI-102 Broadband Internet VoIP Accelerator

Long-time fans of the VoIP & Gadgets blog, may recalled my 2005 post titled, Mysterious QoS Device, where I discovered with some help from a tipster that Linksys and D-Link were using Ubicom's StreamEngine Net Accelerator to perform Qos techniques...

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Verizon, Dell Offer Pay-As-You-Go Broadband

According to ABIResearch.com, Verizon, Dell plan to offer Pay-As-You-Go Broadband with Verizon's EV-DO technology embedded into select Dell laptops. Teaming up with Dell is a very smart way for Verizon to shore up their marketshare in the high-speed long-distance wireless...

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CompUSA to offer Covad broadband

Covad and CompUSA have announced a deal to offer Covad's broadband in 168 stores nationwide. CompUSA and Covad have created what they are claiming is "a total technology solution for the very small business market". According to Covad, small business...

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2006 the year of IPTV?

Is 2006 the year for IPTV? Certainly seems that way with all the releases I've been getting in email lately, including this one below, which lists broadband data and 400 IPTV channels. 400 channels? 400 CHANNELS!?!?! Sheesh! I only have...

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CES 2006: Annual CE Clambake Kicks Off Tomorrow

Just like New Year's Day follows New Year's Eve, the giant annual consumer electronics clambake in the desert known as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicks off a few days after New Year's -- in this case tomorrow -- in Las Vegas....

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Verizon Inflight Wireless Broadband

According to PRNewswire, "Verizon Airfone has made significant progress toward providing wireless broadband services for U.S. air travel. The announcement follows the FCC's establishment of rules for auctioning spectrum in the 800 MHz band dedicated to commercial air-to-ground telecommunication services....

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Cingular BroadbandConnect 3G network

Cingular has just launched BroadbandConnect, a 3G wireless network that Cingular claims is the largest national high-speed wireless data network. The broadband service will be available to around 35 million people. Cingular, plans to expand the high-speed wireless network throughout...

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FCC wants ala carte TV channels

I heard on WABC talk radio this morning that the FCC wants cable companies to offer TV channels "a la carte" to give consumers more choice. Considering how harsh I was on the FCC's e911 requirements this morning, I have...

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SupportSoft and Thomson team up for the Triple Play

I'm a huge fan of Triple Play or even Quadruple Play solutions. I mean who doesn't want IP-TV/video-on-demand, broadband, and VoIP all in one cost-savings bundled package? One of the challenges in Triple Play is the provisioning and management...

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Democrats want nationwide broadband policy

Below is the text of Leader Pelosi's speech this morning to the National Press Club. Statements are included from industry and academic leaders regarding the Innovation Agenda which addresses America's nationwide broadband policy and even mentions voice over IP.I highlighted...

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Nancy Pelosi will kick the FCC's ass and ask questions later

House Democratic Leader Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi will deliver a speech at the National Press Club on Tuesday unveiling the Democrats' new "Innovation Agenda: A Commitment to Competitiveness to Keep America #1." Her speech fits right in with my recent blog...

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Legislation for a statutory framework for IP and Broadband Services

Yesterday, I listened to a congressional hearing discussing a draft of legislation to create a statutory framework for Internet Protocol and Broadband Services. I actually streamed the audio/video, but only recorded the audio from the hearing. It featured several witnesses,...

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Cablevision High Speed Internet upgrade

Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE: CVC) today announced that it is leveraging the capacity of its fiber network to introduce two new Optimum Online premium tiers that will increase the speed of its Internet products to up to 50 Mbps. Cablevision...

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Wireless Broadband on airplanes

Some interesting news worth sharing. AirCell has announced the successful testing of wireless broadband that works while travelling on an airplane. Tomorrow, AirCell will announce the successful completion of its extended airborne demonstration program that allows potential airline customers and...

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Netzero dial-up VoIP claims

The VoIP Noise blog is claiming that NetZero is finally offering their dial-up VoIP in beta utilizing their NetZero HiSpeed 3G technology, which they claim is practically broadband speed over dial-up. Uh huh... I could have sworn the Netzero dialup over...

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Broadband choices in America

America - land of the free, home of the brave? Not when it comes to broadband choices! The Channel Changer, a blog all about "communication competition", has an interesting post on Sen. John Sununu and pondering why Sununu, a technology...

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FTTH Jealousy

Just got this news release on a FTTH deployment that includes IPTV, voice, video, video-on-demand, HDTV, ludicrous 100 Mbps Internet speeds, and more. Man, my cable broadband is starting to look like lame dial-up when I read news releases like...

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First city to deploy broadband over powerline goes live

The first city-wide deployment of broadband-over-powerline (BPL) technology in the U.S. went line in Manassas, Virginia. The BPL network is operated by Communication Technologies, Inc. (COMTek). COMTek is recognized by Inc. magazine as one of the 500 fastest-growing privately held...

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Broadband-in-gas (BiG) delivers broadband

Hmm, interesting - Broadband-in-gas (BiG) uses natural gas pipelines to deliver broadband Internet access? Guess this means you can serve up some ham & eggs and Web access too, on your gas oven range! ;) Boy, first it was the...

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U.S Robotics forays into VoIP

U.S. Robotics, announced today that it will enter the $493 million Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) equipment market during the fourth quarter of 2005. Initial roll out of the first products is scheduled for October. U.S. Robotics has always been...

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SkyStream's Video Headend Systems Selected by Eagle Broadband and GlobeCast

As a huge fan of Triple Play, including IPTV solutions, I thought I'd share this news...SkyStream's Video Headend Systems Selected by Eagle Broadband and GlobeCast to Power Their IPTVComplete Turnkey Video Solution for Broadband ProvidersCompanies to Demonstrate IPTVComplete(TM) Video Service...

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AT&T the Sleeping Giant Awakens to blitzkrieg the VoIP market

So every industry pundit is claiming that AT&T has surrendered to the Baby Bells, but I know better. Here are some headlines: AT&T surrenders fight for home telephone services AT&T Gives Up on Consumer Market AT&T rings in a new...