DSLreports - front pageThe largest broadband users community on the webMonday Evening Links -- July 14, 2008 Canadian government urged to spend spectrum proceeds on broadband CBC.ca IPTV deployments double for the second year running as Broadband continues to achieve strong growth TechWack.com Most Broadband Subscribers Happy With Service MediaPost.com Laws to Freeze Taxes on Mobile Devices InternetNews.com Verizon Shuts Off Analog In Maryland, Northern Virginia MultiChannel.com Why Are People Being Sent To Jail For Unlocking A Mobile Phone TechDirt.com YahooMicrosftIcahn saga Part.http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Monday-Evening-Links-96101 Fairpoint insists DSL Expansion On Track - Sats 75% of Vermont lines DSL ready by year end- July 14, 2008 While they haven't done a very good job of running 911 services, Fairpoint Communications, which just acquired Verizon's Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine networks, says they're gearing up to expand DSL availability in Vermont. According to the Bennington Banner, Fairpoint is promising Vermont residents that 75% of their phone lines will be able to offer DSL by the end of this year. A spokesperson tempers enthusiasm:"By 2010, we hope to have at least 80 percent of households in the state with...http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Fairpoint-insists-DSL-Expansion-On-Track-96100 Apple: 1 Million 3G iPhones Sold In 3 Days - Despite last Friday's activation issues....- July 14, 2008 Despite the activation headaches last Friday, Apple this morning issued a press release saying they sold a million 3G iPhones last weekend. "iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend," says his Jobs-ness. "It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world." Apple also stated that customers had purchased more than 10 million applications from the App Store since it launched last week.read comment(s)http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Apple-1-Million-3G-iPhones-Sold-In-3-Days-96097 Xbox 360 Gets Netflix Streaming - More than 10,000 titles soon to be available...- July 14, 2008 With Sony hot on their heels and planning to launch their own film & TV download service this summer, Microsoft today announced they'll not only be overhauling the Xbox 360's GUI completely, they'll be enabling live streaming from Netflix (full E3 presentation at Engadget) in a software update this fall. The partnership (in addition to a new deal with NBC Universal) would put the total Xbox 360 downloadable film and TV selection count at over 10,000. With all of these companies ramping up...http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Xbox-360-Gets-Netflix-Streaming-96095 Broadweave Buys Remnants of Eagle Broadband - Houston FTTH networks picked up for a cool $250k- July 14, 2008 After gobbling up Utah's iProvo municipal broadband operations for $40 million last March, Broadweave, a small fiber to the home operator, looks to be picking up the remnants of the Eagle broadband network in Houston. Eagle broadband filed for bankruptcy last fall, but are most noteable for their 2005 suit against 25 anonymous individuals for posting fake press releases and critical statements on the Yahoo finance message boards, which Eagle claimed led to a 76% drop in stock value. That suit...http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Broadweave-Buys-Remnants-of-Eagle-Broadband-96094 Palm Treo 800w Arrives - $249 after rebates with two-year contract- July 14, 2008 Not to be outdone by the Apple whatsit-doodle, Sprint and Palm today unveiled the new Palm Treo 800w, the latest incarnation of the popular smart phone. It looks to shore up the series somewhat, offering Windows Mobile 6.1, a 2-megapixel camera with 2X zoom, GPS, EVDO Rev. A and integrated Wi-Fi, while coming in a slight smaller form factor. The phone is available starting today from Sprint for $249.99 after rebates, if you sign a two-year contract. Reviews: ZDNet, CNET, Slashgear, PhoneMag....http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Palm-Treo-800w-Arrives-96090 Bell Canada: Throttling Aids Innovation - And nuclear waste is also a delicious noon-time snack....- July 14, 2008 While Bell Canada has so far failed to prove that network congestion (not anti-competitive behavior) prompted them to throttle competing wholesalers without telling anyone, they're still trying their best to argue their way out of trouble. Their latest filing with the Canadian government attacks critics like Dave Burstein (who suggested that upgrades would have been inexpensive), and insists that throttling encourages innovation:Several parties have claimed that traffic management will hinder...http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Bell-Canada-Throttling-Aids-Innovation-96084 Fight Child Porn By...Doing Nothing Differently - NY Attorney General's words are but wind...- July 14, 2008 Last week NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo made a big deal out of the fact that he'd managed to get AOL to stop offering access to child porn newsgroups. The only thing was, AOL stopped offering newsgroup access three years ago to cut costs, so nothing has actually changed and even AOL admits they're not doing a single thing differently. Remember, this all began last month when the AG's office conducted a "sting" against Time Warner Cable, Sprint and Verizon -- and found that one could find...http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Fight-Child-Porn-ByDoing-Nothing-Differently-96080 Universal Service Fund Still Poorly Managed Money Pit - FCC still not really tracking where money goes....- July 14, 2008 Remember how for years I've noted that the Universal Service Fund, a system you pay into monthly via your broadband and phone bills, was poorly regulated by the FCC -- to the point they never bothered to track where most of the money went Well, other than VoIP customers now paying USF fees, nothing's changed. Despite the FCC claiming they'd look into it back in 2005, a new report (pdf) by the GAO (via Ars Technica) notes that the system is still a money pit:But perhaps the most important...http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Universal-Service-Fund-Still-Poorly-Managed-Money-Pit-9... Monday Morning Links -- July 14, 2008 ACCC: Telstra will have to provide reasons for denying competitors access to exchanges ArnNet.com.au Sprint CEO Tries To Win Back Unhappy Customers Mobile-Tech-Today.com Report: The WiMax TCO advantage MuniWireless.com Andrew Cuomo Gloats Over Getting AOL To Do What It Already Does TechDirt.com DirecTV: Web s A VOD Ally MultiChannel.com Business takes sides in net neutrality debate TheStar.com Internet Usage Via Mobile Gaining Currency Thanks to Nokia Users ITProPortal.com .http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Monday-Morning-Links-96077 |