Google last week said it plans to build an experimental
fiber-to-the-home network that would deliver speeds of up to 1 Gbps.
And this week FCC chairman Julius Genachowski outlined
a goal of delivering 100 Mbps broadband to 100 million homes as
part a “2020 vision” associated with the National Broadband Plan.
However, amid what many perceive as good news for the wired broadband
industry, the Telecommunications Industry Association and United States
Telecom Association said they would
not produce Supercomm, an industry trade show, due to “financial
projections.” Translation: Wired broadband is in trouble. And it’s the
fault of ISPs and Silicon Valley.
Despite a rollout of faster technology from some cable providers, and Verizon’s continued fiber-to-the-home buildout, the wired broadband world isn’t looking terribly exciting outside Google’s testbed project. A close inspection of the long-range FCC plan doesn’t have me overly inspired, especially as other areas of the world invest in 1 Gbps networks today.
Meanwhile, in the same time two-week period as all of this wired broadband news, the mobile industry’s largest trade show, Mobile World Congress, took place. It was chock-full of the usual mobile players as well as a who’s who of anyone in the tech scene. And issues associated with mobile broadband, from new networks to spectrum shortages (GigaOM Pro, sub req’d) and how to build applications for mobile handsets (GigaOM Pro),were all anyone could talk about.
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