Broadband / Network Services
Apple & RIm are the ones making money from mobile phones
BT's C21CN starts to roll out ADSL2+ Not exactly GPON but it's a start.
ArsTechnica: UK - what a Non-Neutral Network looks like
UK: Gross exageration of revenue lost to digital priacy?, surely not.
UK: Digital Britain Unconference Reports on Scribd (a/c required to download but nor for viewing)
FTTH
FTTH is worth $5000 to the homeowner
SingTel/Opus warns NBN could be commercial failure unless there is only one network that includes Telstra's fixed line assets.
Netherlands: More than 1m FTTH subs by 2013 says much quoted report from research firm Telecompaper. Conversions from ADSL, not new subs.
Public WiFi
SF rolls out solar bus shelters with free WiFi
WiMAX
Mformation taking over Clearwire device management
Intel is ceasing production of its "Rosedale 2" WiMAX chip effective immediately in order to focus on its other WiMAX chips
Femto Forum and WiMAX Forum link up for ... WiMAX Femtocells (what else?)
Mobile / FMC / VoIP
Palm Pre. Reviews: Walter Mossberg, David Pogue, WSJ on Business Week's 'hatchet job', MSNBC, Pre | Central.net, Wireless Week, Gizmodo. Nice analysis at Daring Fireball focusing on the keybaord and how it's more a competitor to RIm than Apple. Roundup of first weekend
iPhone: more rumuours, this time that there is an 'iPhone Video' model somehere in the works and final pre-WWDC predictions from Daring Fireball
Femtocells: nice summary of some of the practical problems and why a Femtocell feeding an in-building distribution system might be a better idea.
