Joe Laszlo
Joe Laszlo
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Should service providers use existing wiring in the home, or should they use wireless? This is still an issue that is still very much open for debate.
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ISPs' rhetoric is increasingly strident about content from outside providers raising the costs of their networks. But I haven't seen hard data that suggests the volume of legitimate video is coming close to swamping ISP networks yet.
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E-mail addresses inherently are tied to the provider in the way that a phone number is not tied to a wireless carrier or phone company.
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I think all (the IM companies) think that this is an idea whose time has finally come. All of them realize that while voice chatting between IM users is a nice thing, what they really need to do longer term in order to make the platform more viable is make that connection out to the phone networks.
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I think there is room for some new communications application to come out of left field and surprise everybody.
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It certainly has not been adoption at the rate that some companies in the industry, some of the early entrants among the broadband providers, were expecting.
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The AOL/Time Warner merger could really bring broadband from the cutting-edge, early adapter users to mass-market consumers, something AOL excels in,
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Within the U.S., it's a pretty iffy model. FON faces some real problems.
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What they're left with is figuring out a better message around why broadband is worth it.
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There aren't a lot of direct synergies here. But there are a lot of indirect synergies.
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Together, they emit 1,500 pounds of mercury annually.
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While this is unexpected, it indicates that AOL is remaining technologically agnostic. But I wouldn't expect AOL, if they expand DSL trials further, to compete in the same markets as Time Warner.
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People realize it's not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket.
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Some will see this as the apocalypse while others see this as natural evolution.