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Thursday, 28 May 2009 20:22 |
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Denmark: 5/30 Stofa Telia in Denmark is buying Motorola EuroDOCSIS 3.0 cable modems, designed for "up to 200 megabit" downstream and upstream almost as fast. They have 600K TV customers and 350K data customers, and are under strong attack from electric utility fiber. No details yet on deployment.
USA: 5/30 Comcast has turned on downstream 3.0 in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, and California. They are going to raise "peak" speeds to 100 megabits shortly. The telcos will respond with fear, uncertainty, and doubt which will be highly believable because Comcast is unlikely to give solid data about actual speeds. The performance of DOCSIS 3.0 is outstanding so far, and there's no good reason Brian should just say "The peak speed is 100 megabits, and customers receive 50 megabits over 90% of the time." I bet the real number is in the high 90's, but nearly no one believes that because cablecos are holding back the data.
USA: 5/30 Cox made the politically foolish move of launching first in Lafayette, Louisiana, where they are being criticized for unfair delaying tactics against the local independent. The second market is the D.C. suburbs in Virginia, and they intend to move very quickly, with a goal of 2/3rds of their territory in 18 months. Charter has launched in St. Louis.
Portugal: 5/30 TV CABO is using the open set top software from Jungo for their DOCSIS gateway. Smart operators watch Jungo closely because owner Rupert Murdoch could make open gateways a factor in many markets.
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