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So How is VoIP Doing?

July 8, 2010

According to the FCC, the VoIP subscribers is 21 million not including Skype users. These figures are part of the 31-page report, "Local Telephone Competition". The report uses data from 2008!

Of the 162 million voice lines, 21M are VoIP. Consider that cablecos probably represent almost half that number. Vonage is about 2.5M subs then. VZ's FiOS is VoIP, so that's about 1M. So the hundreds (probably thousands) of VoIP Providers amount to 8M lines? OUCH! No wonder they need more funding.

According toi the report (via The Register), only 2M lines were business. 19M were residential.

Posted in FCC, cableco, telco, telecommunications, voip, wireline

Qwest Loses Forbearance

June 29, 2010

Qwest had a forbearance petition in at the FCC for the Phoenix metro area. It was denied by the FCC last week. It was denied in 2008 by Martin's commission as well.

Qwest claims that cable, VoIP and cellular are stealing all the market share.

Posted in FCC, Internet, broadband, cellular, cloud computing, data center, telco, wireline

Is Rural Wireline Profitable?

June 28, 2010

Exhibit A: Fairpoint Communications. Small rural telco merges with New England Verizon assets and billions in debt. The 3 state utility commissions were uneasy about the merger to begin with. Two years later, Fairport is struggling to get out of bankruptcy court.

Posted in ISP, Internet, broadband, cloud computing, telco, telecommunications, wireless, wireline

Not the Way I Saw It

June 10, 2010

Speakeasy is merging with the merging Covad and Megapath in a menage of sorts, according to this press release from MegaPath.

I saw New Edge Networks, the EarthLink company, joining with the other DLEC's. Didn't see this one coming.

"Through a combination of direct sales and a national network of more than 8,000 IT consultant partners, Speakeasy has experienced significant customer growth, with more than 30,000 small business customers nationwide.
Posted in CLEC, mergers, mpls, telecommunications, wireline

Verizon Starts Blocking

June 9, 2010

Comcast won in court over the FCC on the issue of traffic shaping, so Verizon started blocking ports this week.

First, VZ started blocking port 25 yesterday on their FiOS and DSL networks. Now VoIP Traffic is being blocked.

From an ITSP, "We started getting calls today, and it seems that Verizon has started blocking ports, traffic shaping, something, but it is interfering with voice service, email, and some web traffic.

Posted in FCC, broadband, duopoly, outage, voip, wireline

Can Copper Turn to Gold?

May 25, 2010

People ask me about the CenturyLink-Qwest merger. I'm still trying to get over the CTEL-Embarq merger. And wrapping my head around bigger is better when that has been proven to be a hoax recently (Too Big to Fail?) is causing a headache.

Rich Tehrani sent me an article from Barrons, CenturyLink's POTS of Gold.

Posted in FCC, broadband, fiber, mergers, telco, wireless, wireline

What is With the FCC?

May 25, 2010

Julius Genachowski as Chairman of the FCC did a decent job on the framework of ideas that is called the National Broadband Plan. In it, he concluded that we would need 500 MHz of spectrum to make it happen. Notice he didn't say fiber or wireline, but bet on wireless.

And he already grabbed 25 MHz of spectrum in the 2.3 GHz band to get started.

Posted in FCC, broadband, cellular, mergers, spectrum, wireless, wireline

Just a Reminder

May 18, 2010

The masses. You know, the ratepayers, the taxpayers, the consumers. These are the people who have paid for the PSTN. These same consumers have also paid for the future broadband networks that the ILECs have refused to build despite taking rate hikes (for years) to pay for the promised land.

So when there is talk about No Investment in Telecom, I have to laugh.

Posted in FCC, broadband, politics, telco, telecommunications, wireline
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Inside Wiring

May 14, 2010


This is the inside wiring job for a small business in Tampa. Nice. Notice the IDSL jack labeled better than the DSL jack
Posted in telco, wireline

The FCC is Rolling

May 10, 2010

Except for Commissioner McDowell who is out after emergency gall bladder surgery, the FCC has been pumping out the info. The Broadband.gov site is pumping out info. Broadband maps, consumer speed tests, spectrum database, and the Commish's blog. (The website also highlights the 6 Goals of the National Broadband Plan.)

The Commish launched a video message on YouTube about the Third Option on the subject of Net Neutrality.

Posted in FCC, Internet, bandwidth, broadband, cellular, spectrum, telecommunications, wireless, wireline
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