What in the world is Google doing with its high speed network in Kansas City? Does Goggle expect the revenue to exceed the costs of building the network? Dave Burstein has some numbers to illuminate the question. Dave Burstein is a communications junky for the major communications junky. He covers many topics in communications markets, …
Tiered Broadband Pricing
Kellogg Insight's Editor, Tim De Chant, and I sat down to discuss tiered pricing for broadband. It was a pretty interesting conversation, and Tim distilled it into a blog post. If you are curious to see the original post and other posts by Tim, see his blog, Expertly Wrapped. With Tim's permission, here is a …
Betting on content is king
It was Bill Gates who coined the term, "content is king" back in an article written in 1996. The idea defines where the money comes from on the Internet. Gates wrote: Content is where I expect much of the real money will be made on the Internet, just as it was in broadcasting. The article …
Limits to broadband diffusion?
The National Telecommunications Information Administration just published the findings from its latest survey about Internet use within US households. In case you missed it, here is a summary: broadband adoption among US households went up, but not by much. Actually, that is not entirely fair. Viewed at short intervals, broadband adoption will appear to be …
US Broadband in Maps, Graphs, and some Bars
To be sure, most of us do not use government statistical reports as anything more than bedtime reading for inducing soporific reactions. It is cheaper than a sleeping pill. But those expectations would be too harsh for the most recent broadband report from the FCC. It contains a great deal of data, and it is …
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