Broadband / Network Services

Comparison of mobile data syncing services.

France: constitutional court strikes down Hadopi law's no-judicial-process-disconnects. Freedom of speech means "implies today, considering the development of the Internet, and its importance for the participation in democratic life and the expression of ideas and opinions, the online public’s freedom to access these communication services".

Phorm is not dead yet as it raises £15m at a much lowered valuation.

Facebook & Twitter verified accounts: Telecoms just lost another control point

Ofcom says some people just don't want broadband even if free

Jaxtr free voice calling in firesale?

National Broadband Plan comments: Google, Verizon & AT&T

Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) filed comments on ICANN's future: "CDT has long argued that ICANN should be freed of U.S. control, but only if it is accountable to the global Internet community and protected from interference by other governments."

Verizon: all LTE devices must be IPv6

Indian 3G delay costs $16b if you add up the lost investment and national productivity.

FTTH

Australian NBN: "put the cables underground"

Philippines largest ISP PLDT goes fiber

FTTx: Global Operator Rankings (watch out for the annoying video ads ;-)

ALU wins 40% of China Telecom's FTTH trials

Public WiFi

Meru does WiFI management from an iPhone

Cisco predicts huge increases in Internet traffic in the next few years, mainly from video

WiMAX

Mobily in $100m Saudi deal with Samsung gear

Chipzilla puts $43m into Japanese WiMAX planning for coverage to 90 per cent of the country by 2012.

Mobile / FMC / VoIP

ABIresearch: Worldwide mobile market own 11.9%n 1Q09

NTT DoCoMo to launch LTE in 2H10

SingTel launches a music service

Will AT&T use 'netwrk neutrality' as a competitive weapon against Sprint & T-Mobile?

BillShrink compares the TCO of the iPhone, Palm & G1.

iPhone 3GS: most predictions were pretty close. Apple's official guided tour is as good a place as any to see what's new. Personally, I was hoping for a slightly better camera but the longer battery life is needed. Review & summaries: David Pogue, Daily Wireless, TUAW, . AT&T comes in for sustained criticism over slow support for the new features (MMS, tethering) and upgrade prices: VentureBeat, Ars Technica. The Register alhough on the upgrade cost at least, the financial logic is spot on. There's reasonable speculation they will apply surcharges for MMS and tethering. AT&T doesn't even have good 7.2 HSPA coverage.

Interesting but wild speculation on the encryption features of iPhone v3 which may unlie the remote wipe and disable feature. Lastly, the reason the iPhone isn't available in S. Korea?

Palm Pre: the ~50k units sold is claimed as a success but the market reacted otherwise with the stock 10% down. Developers (and hackers) should be happy. All the main apps are written in Javacript and now the activation check has been easily bypassed on an un-activated phone (ie, it's been jail-broken). The Pre uses GPL-licensed code yet they are still in the process of preparing the necessary modified source which, strictly, makes them non-compliant although if it's only 2 weeks, little harm is done.