Morning Broadband Bytes1) Get Coffee 2) Read Morning Broadband Bytes 3) Start Day ( old news - 05:04AM Wednesday May 04 2005) • Around the Industry: AT&T exec offers top 10 predictions: IP will eat everything
BelAir200 awarded Best WiMAX/Wireless Broadband Product of the Year
Pittsburgh citywide Wi-Fi unlikely
BellSouth offers cash back for new subscribers
Broadband World Forum Asia 2005: Teach us how to do it right, Japan
@Home comes back to bite Comcast and AT&T in respective derrieres• SecurityBits: Security flaws found for free, claims company... but can anyone scan any computer using the service?
Symantec patches ICMP flaw
Apple Mega Patch Plugs 20 Mac OS X Holes• TidBytes: Opera Passes 2 Million Download Mark
Sony ships next gen Dual-Format, Dual-Layer burners
President Bush DoS's UK police• More news from around the industry, SecurityBits, and interesting Tidbytes inside!Around The Industry:• AT&T exec offers top 10 predictions: IP will eat everything: The CTO/CIO of AT&T delivered his top 10 predictions in a keynote address at Interop: 10: Home LANs will proliferate; 9: Knowledge mining will transform the way we do business; 8: Wireless and wired lines will converge; 7: Broadband will be common, leading to the death of locality; 6: e-Collaboration will dominate the workplace; 5: Sensor networks will be everywhere; 4: Wireless Internet will be big; 3: Convergence of comms and apps will become a reality, the network will be the computer; 2: Security is critical; 1: IP will eat up everything.• BelAir200 awarded Best WiMAX/Wireless Broadband Product of the Year: BelAir Networks announced today that its BelAir200 Wireless Multi-service Switch Router was named Best WiMAX/Wireless Broadband Product for 2005 at the Wireless LAN Event in London. The multi-radio BelAir200 is a versatile wireless networking platform that uses Wi-Fi, WiMAX and 3G technologies to create a wireless mesh for metro-scale broadband wireless deployments. The WBI Awards recognize excellence and innovation in the field of Wi-Fi, mobile data, and wireless broadband.• Pittsburgh citywide Wi-Fi unlikely: A public-private committee charged with exploring the Wi-Fi issue and making recommendations on how the city can keep up with ever-changing communications technologies sees little hope for Pittsburgh following in Philadelphia's footsteps. "To some extent, it's a difficult issue -- and people would argue, a moot issue," said Downtown attorney Alex Thomson, who chaired of the 25-person committee. "The government of Pittsburgh doesn't have the funds to subsidize a Wi-Fi network."• BellSouth offers cash back for new subscribers: BellSouth has launched a new promotion offering up to $125 cash back for new customers. The company is offering $100 cash back for BellSouth FastAccess DSL (excluding BellSouth FastAccess DSL Lite) and DIRECTV service; or $100 cash back for BellSouth FastAccess DSL (excluding BellSouth FastAccess DSL Lite) and Cingular Wireless Answers; and $25 cash back for BellSouth Unlimited Long Distance to residential customers who sign up between 1 May and 31 August 2005.• Broadband World Forum Asia 2005: Teach us how to do it right, Japan: Broadband World Forum Asia 2005 will be held 30 May - 2 June 2005 in Yokohoma, Japan. Officially sponsored by NTT, the World Forum will bring together executives within carrier and supplier companies throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn the business models, deployment strategies, and rollout practices that have proven successful in making mass-market broadband in Japan a reality. Take good notes, North American representatives!• @Home comes back to bite Comcast and AT&T in respective derrieres: AT&T and Comcast have agreed to pay $340 million to settle claims tied to the bankruptcy of Excite@Home. As part of the agreement, AT&T will pay the full amount to a group of Excite@Home bondholders. In addition, AT&T will relinquish the rights to $60 million that had been held in reserve to satisfy pending claims against Excite@Home. Comcast, which had acquired AT&T's Internet business and said it is contractually obligated for 50% of the settlement, will then pay $170 million to AT&T.• Europe mulls policing Internet; regulators worry about sifling broadband innovation: Media regulators across Europe could be forced to police internet content for taste and decency, according to proposals under consideration in Brussels. The plans have led to fears at UK media watchdog Ofcom that this may stifle innovation in the broadband content industry and prove impossible to enforce. The UK regulator will review the impact of broadband and other services over the next decade and consult the public and the industry over whether content delivered over them can and should be regulated.• EU OKs French funding for broadband network: The European Union on Tuesday approved France's use of euro85 million (US$109 million) in public funding for an open broadband infrastructure in France's Limousin region. The project will be co-financed by EU funds and will enable telecom operators to provide broadband services to residential users, businesses and public authorities, an EU statement said.• Broadband access for Aussie state schools: All state schools will get high-speed internet access under a $90 million plan to make Victorian schools Australia's technology leaders. The Government's broadband rollout for schools will criss-cross the state, connecting schools to four-megabyte fibre-optic bandwidth -- the best and fastest available. It is a huge plank in the State Government's record $868 million boost to education.• Analysis: Britain back on the broadband wagon; and another digital divide: Broadband uptake has spread across Britain, but bandwidth-hungry users are already impatiently waiting for the next raft of services such as television on demand, carried over ADSL2+. These connections are already widely available in Europe, so why is Britain so far behind Europe and will they ever catch up? 'ADSL2+ will arrive, maybe by the end of the year in some areas,' says Jupiter Research. 'But this will be the next digital divide, and urban areas are going to get the services, rural areas may not.'• New Millennium Research Council defends being telco/cableco sock puppet: WiFiNetNews has some interesting things to say about a CNet article in which the New Millennium Research Council, one of the most vocal groups to speak out against muni networks, defends their paid work on behalf of their incumbent telecom and cable customers directly. NMRC, which describes itself as an independent research network that pools policy experts, is owned and operated by Issue Dynamics. All four of the Baby Bell's; BellSouth, SBC, Qwest, and Verizon; are listed on the company's Web site as past or present clients.• Bluetooth, UWB techs combining efforts: The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is expected to announce it will work with Ultrawideband developers to make their wireless networking technologies compatible. The move will allow developers and eventually consumers to take advantage of the high transfer rates of the Ultrawideband technology--between 100 megabits and 200 megabits over a 10- to 20-foot range--on the broad array of devices--from cell phones and handhelds to cars--that now include Bluetooth technology.• Battle for control of the Internet heats up: The chairman of Centr, an organisation representing the needs and wishes of a large part of the world's internet registries, made his points bluntly in a letter to ICANN, accusing ICANN of being a quasi-regulator and a "United States private-sector company" from which sovereign nations would not accept orders. He outlined the main concerns with ICANN and made it clear that unless ICANN started accepting a relationship of equals, it would not get the support it needs.SecurityBits:• Security flaws found for free, claims company... but can anyone scan any computer using the service?: Security vendor Qualys is offering a free scanning service for the 20 most serious vulnerabilities recognised by SANS. However, ZDNet UK has found that the service also allows users to carry out vulnerability scans on other people's computers. Although Qualys said it has put a number of preventative measures in place to stop this, it hinted that this was possible.• Symantec patches ICMP flaw: The Symantec patches cover a publicly reported flaw in ICMP, the networking protocol used in the majority of networked computer systems. Affected products include multiple versions of the Symantec Gateway Security Series, Enterprise Firewall, the Symantec Firewall/VPN Appliance, the Nexland Firewall Appliance and the Symantec VelociRaptor. The company urged users to apply hotfixes and firmware updates from its tech support Site. Some of the patches can be downloaded through Symantec's LiveUpdate feature.• Apple Mega Patch Plugs 20 Mac OS X Holes: Apple released an update to fix a whopping 20 security flaws in Mac OS X. Security Update 2005-005 includes patches for Mac OS X v10.3.9 and Mac OS X Server v10.3.9. It covers a wide range of vulnerabilities that could be exploited by remote or local attackers to execute arbitrary commands, trigger a DoS condition or obtain elevated privileges. The mega update comes just two weeks patches for a range of potentially serious kernel and browser flaws.• Research: Spyware industry represents 25% of online ad industry: According Webroot, spyware appls, specifically the types that generate pop-up advertisements, hijack home pages, redirect Web searches and use so-called DNS poisoning to steal Web traffic, generate an estimated $2 billion in revenue annually. Based on statistics published by the Internet Advertising Bureau, spyware could represent almost 25% of the entire online advertising industry.Hardware, Software, and other TidBytes:• Opera Passes 2 Million Download Mark• Sony ships next gen Dual-Format, Dual-Layer burners• President Bush DoS's UK police• Motorola In Field Trials Of Wi-Fi/Cell Handoff Technology • Verizon Rolls Out Nationwide VoIP Solution For SMBs • Google eyes better news searches• $543 a month for 2MB broadband
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| $543 a month for 2MB broadband lol, wow. I know a couple people in that part of the world and that price doesn't surprise me. Everything is so damn expensive over there.
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It's a bad deal when your cheapest broadband is a T1 line.  | |
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| AT&T settles with @Home Interesting that this finally settles now.
@Home bondholders should have filed suit against the banks that financed and sold them the bonds, not AT&T. @Home was headed for the ropes when those bonds were marketed, so someone either hid the books or made them look pretty good to those buyers.
If @Home had any trade "secret" it was how to overspend and go bankrupt. Interesting that no one has gone after the execs who departed after AT&T took over.
The only reason AT&T/Comcast is on the hook (in the suit) is because they got the infrastructure that those bonds financed. When AT&T took over the board of @Home, it was a complete mess. They determined it was better for it to go under than to pump more money into a losing proposition. It did made AT&T look self serving, but in the end they were only on the hook for 170 million. Which is a nit because they have already fully depreciated the equipment acquired, already had written off any losses from the @Home integration, and aggregated the revenue from the new customers they acquired and had leveraged the risk of the suit into the Comcast acqusition agreement.
If anyone got left holding the bag, it was Comcast. AT&T had some good attorneys working this one. | |
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