Broadband Business Forecast articles from July 2004

Broadband Business Forecast archives from July 2004

The Well-Connected Road Warrior.
July 13, 2004... Broadband Business Forecast Editor Stuart Zipper last week completed an epic 22,092 miles in the air, covering 30 time zones in six days, to take a detailed look at the world's first broadband service aboard a commercial airliner -- the...

Internet On Board - The Log.
July 13, 2004... Unlike most Americans who stayed on the ground to watch the July 4 fireworks, BBF Editor Stuart Zipper spent his holiday weekend and more in the air, testing out the whiz-bang "Connexion by Boeing" airborne broadband system. The following diary...

BBF's Take On Our Flight Around The World.
July 13, 2004... After traveling through multiple airports, staying in a trio of hotels and spending 22 hours surfing while in flight, Broadband Business Forecast learned more than a few lessons -- invaluable lessons for road warriors, for those who provide...

Deal Sheet.
July 13, 2004... Who's Doing What?: First Avenue Networks [FRNS], headquartered in Charlottesville, Va.; 434/220-4988 Signed a letter of intent to buy the fixed wireless assets of Teligent, headquartered in Herndon, Va.; 703/326-4400 What To Expect...

Making The Broadband Business 'Connexion'.
July 13, 2004... Some time this week, Lufthansa's [LHAG] tenth aircraft equipped with inflight broadband should be tooling down the runway, fitted out with a Connexion by Boeing [BA] system installed by Lufthansa's service arm, Lufthansa Technik. The system...

Work Starts On Largest U.S. Municipal Broadband System.
July 27, 2004... Installation has begun on the largest municipally owned broadband fiberto-the -premises (FTTP) project so far attempted in the United States -- the iProvo system in Provo, Utah. During the next 24 months, the city of 110,000 residents, and...

It's Safe To Surf The Skies, But Only With Protection.
July 27, 2004... The skies have become a little friendlier for airborne surfers - the folks at Connexion by Boeing [BA] have identified the security hole faced by users of their airborne broadband service who browse with some versions of Microsoft's [MFST]...

Slim Picking(s) At Global Crossing.
July 27, 2004... Mexican mogul Carlos Slim, said to be the richest man in Latin America, has received the last of the regulatory approvals he needs to increase his ownership stake in Global Crossing [GLBCE] (which is of particular interest to the broadband...

Silicon Cisco-Killer Ups The Ante.
July 27, 2004... Sandburst, a four-year-old fabless semiconductor house whose chips are targeted at manufacturers looking to build boxes to compete with Cisco [CSCO], has upped the ante. It's teamed up with giant Taiwanese contract manufacturer Accton...

Business Broadband Value-Added Services.
July 27, 2004... The value-added-services portion of the business broadband market had grown to about 18 percent of all business broadband revenues by early this year, according to a new study by U.K. research house Point Topic. That adds up to a $2.3 billion...

U.S. Home Broadbnd Penetration.
July 27, 2004... Some time this month, and possibly this week, broadband penetration of U.S. homes connected to the Internet will pass the 50-percent point, according to estimates by Web Site Optimization based on figures from Nielsen/NetRatings [NTRT]. ...

Deal Sheet.
July 27, 2004... Who's Doing What?: SupportSoft [SPRT], headquartered in Redwood City, Calif.; 650/556-9440 Is buying virtually all of the assets of Core Networks [privately held], headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia; 902/468-6397 What To Expect Near-Term:...