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What Slowdown?
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The predominant sound late last year in the cable business was of capital spending wallets snapping shut. But the echoes of that market-rattling noise may have faded pretty quickly: Cable's broadband plant upgrades will continue at a steady pace throughout 2001 and 2002, despite drastic moves by AT&T Broadband to find more cost-efficient ways to upgrade its networks.
--March 19, 2001
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Broadband Bills Movin' On Up
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Congress may soon be acting to boost smaller broadband network providers by cutting their regulatory burdens.
--March 19, 2001
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The World View
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Broadband Week senior editor Karen Brown talked recently to WorldCom's chief technology officer Fred Briggs about what the changes have in store for their networks and its business.
--March 19, 2001
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Lucent Optical Exit Could Boost Others
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Lucent Technologies' possible exit from the optical fiber manufacturing business could end up being a big plus for the company that either buys or partners with Lucent's fiber enterprise.
--March 19, 2001
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As Markets Quake, Strong Will Survive In Broadband
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Solid execution, strong back office infrastructure and continued access to capital will be the benchmarks investors use in 2001 to decide how to allocate money to broadband carriers, service providers and equipment makers.
--March 19, 2001
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VOD Deal Block-Busted
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Send back the presents--the video-on-demand nuptuals between Enron Corp. and Blockbuster Inc. have been called off at the altar.
--March 19, 2001
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End Transmission
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Time--and a wary capital investment market--has run out for Geocast Network Systems. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based datacasting firm is going out of business, having suspended operations and begun a search for someone to buy its assets.
--March 19, 2001
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Still BroadbandLiving
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It turns out BroadbandLiving was far from easy. Faced with souring capital markets and general Internet pessimism, Englewood, Colo.-based BroadbandLiving Inc. has agreed to a cash and stock buyout for an undisclosed amount by DigiTerra Inc., a Denver-based enterprise integration and applications provider.
--March 19, 2001
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Sony Looks To Chip For Broadband Breakthrough
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As a couple of giants unveil their plans to create a new, high-performance broadband processor, one of the smaller fry was proceeding with its own broadband chip launch.
--March 19, 2001
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Uncharted Waters
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For traditional ISPs, broadband is a little like the New World was for European explorers: A place with equal parts of profit and danger, with a lot of unknown thrown in. To survive, they are well advised to pack along plenty of technology, marketing and partnership provisions.
--March 19, 2001
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Feeding Consumer Desire
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Customers are king. That's not a sentiment any successful business would try to argue against. It's certainly true these days in the Internet world, where the voracious customer appetite for cutting edge services keeps pushing ISPs into broadband, and pushing broadband ISPs into a whole new business model.
--March 19, 2001
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Whatever Works
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When it comes providing high-speed broadband Internet access to areas outside the largest U.S. metropolitan areas, local ISPs and other service providers are showing that there's more than one way to skin a cat.
--March 19, 2001
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Where Customers Count
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Sometimes Dan Plashkes can't even stomach the news created by his own industry. As the CEO of an emerging customer relationship management software provider, you'd think Plashkes would enjoy all the headlines espousing customer complaints surrounding the installation of broadband service. After all, it should mean more potential customers for Plashkes.
--March 19, 2001
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Making the Metro Connection
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Imagine you want to publicly launch a metro networking company, and you're looking to garner some extra buzz and attention in the growing market space. For starters, you should enlist a former FCC chairman to help found your company and serve on your board. Next, convince heavyweights AOL Time Warner and Cable & Wireless to be your first customers and drum up about $435 million in a first round of funding...
--March 19, 2001
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Readying the Roll
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Well, we're waiting. And so far, the talk about VoIP has been mostly that--talk.
--March 19, 2001
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Cable's Consolidations
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AT&T Broadband continued making good on its debt-reducing business strategy late last month when it began selling off cable systems in some of its smaller markets in order to focus on larger metro areas. Now, thanks to a recent court ruling, fellow cable giants could be the ones snapping up future AT&T system offerings. In the meantime, regional operators are enjoying a resurgence of sorts.
--March 19, 2001
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Web Apps on My Mind
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Talk to wireless executives as they approach their industry's largest U.S. trade show and you'll find out that the biggest trend in wireless is a stiff upper lip.
--March 19, 2001
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Fixed Gaze Homeward
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What's good for business customers ought to be good for residential customers as well... provided the cost of fixed wireless broadband Internet service comes down to a price point suitable for residential customers.
--March 19, 2001
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Mush 3G!
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In the race to bring advanced 3G wireless services to the masses, Canada is fielding its own entry. In 1999, Canada was the first North American country to launch wireless Web browsing. Now the Great White North is poised to strike the iron while it's hot once again, this time with a first-generation 3G rollout scheduled to be completed by the end of 2001.
--March 19, 2001
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Streaming's Switzerland?
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In the battling, faction-riddled streaming media market, they propose to bring a master order--a sort of no-fight zone for those weary of the rich media wars.
--March 19, 2001
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P2P Hydra May Succeed Napster
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Peer-to-peer file sharing giant Napster may be identified by its headphone-clad logo, but these days a more suitable symbol might be the Hydra. Like the mythological beast that grew multiple heads to replace any that were cut off, industry watchers predict that the court-mandated clampdown on Napster's music-sharing activities music will further fuel the already large host of similar P2P music operations, creating a monster for the record companies trying to slay them.
--March 19, 2001
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What Is Broadband?
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The rollout of broadband Internet access in the United States and in Britain is creating important lessons for providers on both sides of the Atlantic.
--March 19, 2001
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Pay to Play
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With high-flying financial optimism all but dashed, the free ride on the Internet also may be ending--the freewheeling, advertising-driven Internet eventually will be replaced by Old Media strategies including subscription and pay-for-use business models.
--March 19, 2001
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Broadside:
Stop The Madness
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Bill Menezes: Basketball madness, mad investors, mad cows... March has been a tough month. No tougher than for the companies trying to maintain optimism about the prospects for continuing growth in the broadband communications business, as customers and peers alike scale back their expectations and prospects for this year.
--March 19, 2001
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Always On:
Beyond the Digital TV Spectrum Skirmish
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Gary Arlen: You'd think that Congress would want to stay as far away as it can from the morass of terrestrial digital TV. If the wacky plan to convert the nation's airwaves from analog to digital service actually happened by 2006, as scheduled, at least 70 percent of Americans would lose their over-the-air TV service.
--March 19, 2001
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Through the Pipe:
Cable Goes For Broadband Gold
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Mike Day: Citius, Altius, Fortius. For 80 years, the Olympics motto has been "Faster. Higher. Stronger." Today, broadband takes on a similar theme. Thanks to our addiction to the Internet and the "more, now" attitude, service providers are racing to deliver instant Internet, voice, video and data faster and with fewer interruptions.
--March 19, 2001
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