Broadband Business Forecast articles from August 2004

Broadband Business Forecast archives from August 2004

$50 Broadband Beams From The WildBlue Yonder.
August 10, 2004... WildBlue Communications, the half-billion-dollar attempt to provide affordable satellite-based broadband to rural America (and even to metropolitan areas where broadband coverage isn't total) has set a $49.95 starting price for its service -...

Wi-Fi From the Sky.
August 10, 2004... DirecTV [DTV] subsidiary Hughes Network Systems has become the latest hopeful looking to ride the growth of 802.11 Wi-Fi broadband services - in part by blending satellite broadband with terrestrial wireless access - by providing connectivity...

Aussie Business Broadband Booms.
August 10, 2004... Broadband usage by small businesses in Australia has surged past the 50-percent mark for those businesses that have Internet connections, according to an ACNielsen Consult [VNUVF] study commissioned by Pacific Internet Limited [PCNTF]...

Westell Takes The Gold In Olympics DSL Event.
August 10, 2004... Nothing like a showcase win to boost the spirits, and Westell Technologies [WSTL] has won the gold medal at the forthcoming Olympics. The Aurora, Ill.-based company has landed the contract, awarded by the Associated Press, to supply the DSL...

Kasenna Set For First Broadband-Based Mid-East PVR.
August 10, 2004... Kasenna expects to launch a broadband network-based Personal Video Recorder (PVR) solution in the Middle East in the near future. According to Mark Gray, Kasenna's chairman and CEO, who spoke with Broadband Business Forecast's sister...

USDA Doles Out More Rural Funding.
August 10, 2004... The U.S. Department of Agriculture has dribbled out another $18 million in low-interest loans to extend broadband into rural communities. The latest recipients of the government's largesse start with Yucca Telecommunications of New Mexico,...

Broadband Companies Get Free GIS Software Offer.
August 10, 2004... Kanotech Information Systems has offered to allow broadband companies to use its communication networks' mapping and GIS software free for the next year. The Canadian company's offer, which extends to contractors doing work for broadband...

Wi-Fi's Broadband Bakery.
August 10, 2004... The Panera Bread Company [PNRA] is touting its in-store hot spots as the largest free broadband Wi-Fi network in the United States. The company has deployed hot spots into 325 of its bakery-cafes in 27 states, and it promises to have 500 of...

Deal Sheet.
August 10, 2004... Who's Doing What?: Paradyne [PDYN], headquartered in Largo, Fla.; 727/530-2000 Has purchased the product portfolio and assets of Net To Net Technologies [privately held], headquartered in Portsmouth, N.H.; 603/427-0600 What To Expect...

North American DSL Growth Finally Beats Cable Broadband.
August 24, 2004... For the first time ever, in the second quarter of this year, the number of new DSL subscribers in North America was significantly higher than the number of new cable broadband subscribers. According to figures compiled by research house...

Stealth WiMax Startup Rears Its Head.
August 24, 2004... Up in the Pacific Northwest, a little WiMax startup calling itself Adaptix has emerged from stealth mode, with product already in production and at least one paying customer, courtesy of $18.5 million in venture capital that was flushed down...

Aussie Wireless Broadband Options Expand.
August 24, 2004... Australian giant Telstra [TLS], like other phone companies around the world, is struggling with declining payphone revenues due to increased use of cellphones. As such, it is running a trial involving some 15 payphones that have been converted...

Free Wi-Fi As A Municipal Service.
August 24, 2004... Culver City, Calif., is about to become the latest in the still small but growing group of cities looking at Wi-Fi-based broadband access in such public areas as parks and municipal buildings as a public service. The city, located eight miles...

IEEE Set To Sort Out Faster Wi-Fi Proposals.
August 24, 2004... The folks in the IEEE's wireless broadband standards 802.11 "Task Group n" have their work cut out for them when they meet in Berlin Sept. 13. More than 60 proposals for what the next generation of 802.11 wireless broadband should look like are...

UK's Western Isles Slated Fr Wireless Broadband.
August 24, 2004... UK communications specialist Atkins Telecoms [WATKF] won the tender for the technical consultancy, design and project management of a $9.1 million project to bring broadband to the UK's remote Western Isles by deploying a 5.8 GHz wireless...

Deal Sheet.
August 24, 2004... Who's Doing What?: A consortium of private investors, including Apax Partners, headquartered in New York City; 212/753-6300; Apollo Management, headquartered in New York City; 212/261-4071 Madison Dearborn Partners, headquartered in Chicago;...