Teeth are gnashing at Telstra HQ as PPC1 snakes its way across the Pacific ocean floor – edging closer and closer to its termination destiny with its Guam and PNG landing points. Suddenly the smaller ISP’s will have an alternative. Competition might be slow to start with Pipe Networks desiring to recoup outlays before [...]
In 2000, the OECD announced their “Internet Basket” pricing survey results. Always-On Pricing To take into account the shift toward unmetered pricing the OECD has also compared the price of ‘always-on’ Internet access. The benchmark used to compare these offers is the average price for 150 hours Internet access per month, for OECD countries [...]
Here are the latest numbers from the Leichtman Group on broadband users in the US. As ADSL2 works its way through the regulatory process and into the market and speeds get faster, not only from ADSL2 but also from WiMax, subscriptions will go into warp speed and then the major changes in our consumption of [...]
My take on what is happening is that the so-called new economy will in fact benefit massively from an oil shortage. Recently, there were some numbers released that I blogged about, that appear to show that in the US as a result of the increased price in oil, more people shifted their retail spending on [...]