BT to double coverage footprint for broadband SDSL

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UK govt calls for 100% broadband
coverage by 2005

UK govt calls for 100% broadband
coverage by 2005 11/13/2003 08:54 AM
Easy to say, harder to do

Sydney Might Have 100 Mbps Wireless
Broadband Coverage

Sydney Might Have 100 Mbps Wireless
Broadband Coverage 04/29/2004 07:38 AM
Sydney, Australia, WISP Unwired plans 50 by 60 kilometer coverage at 100 Mbps for 95 percent of Sydney: The company is signing up resellers and will install 63 towers at a cost of Aus$33 million by July. This all sounds somewhat unrealistic except that the firm has apparently already raised a fair amount of money and has its plans quite advanced. (Perhaps it's a fluke of the Australian market, but I don't understand how a firm raised money without a plan just by using a shell listed company to avoid the IPO process.) The article muddles terminology enormously, which isn't unusual when new technologies appear. The journalist writes, Unwired's 802.16 standard-compliant Ultra Wideband (WiMax) network... Ultrawideband (UWB) is a short-range, high-speed technology. 802.16a is the standard underlying WiMax which has no final spec yet nor a certification program in place. The last graf is somewhat mystifying: It has been reported that Intel is involved in the WiMax Forum certification group, an international 802.16 fixed broadband wireless access standard lobby group. Intel has not been hiding its interest, and WiMax may lobby but it's mostly about certification and education, from what we can tell so far....

Oftel welcomes BT aiming for 100%
broadband coverage by 2005

Oftel welcomes BT aiming for 100%
broadband coverage by 2005 11/18/2003 02:28 AM
PublicTechnology.net Nov 18 2003 1:44AM ET

Broadband: BT plans to extend coverage
to 99.4% of homes by summer 2005

Broadband: BT plans to extend coverage
to 99.4% of homes by summer 2005 08/20/2004 02:31 AM
PublicTechnology.net Aug 20 2004 7:21AM GMT

Sentech announces new coverage areas for
its broadband wireless Internet services

Sentech announces new coverage areas for
its broadband wireless Internet services 06/03/2004 11:09 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jun 4 2004 2:36AM GMT

Research and Markets : US Home Broadband
Audience Expected to Double By 2009

Research and Markets : US Home Broadband
Audience Expected to Double By 2009 04/15/2005 05:20 AM
Research and Markets (researchandmarkets.com/reports/c15662) has announced the addition of Merchandising Value-Added Services: Effectively Crafting and Marketing Premium Service Bundles to their offering. [PRWEB Apr 15, 2005]

After saturation coverage of Olympics,
why no Paralympics TV coverage in US?

After saturation coverage of Olympics,
why no Paralympics TV coverage in US? 09/07/2004 11:47 PM
Xeni Jardin: BBC Journalist and blogger Stuart Hughes says:

The Olympics were a huge success for NBC.200 million viewers. A "halo effect" that boosted other channels and programmes. An estimated $60-70 million profit (Source: Hollywood Reporter) Before the Games started, NBC boast ed of the depth and breadth of its coverage.1210 hours of events.103 commentators. 28 Olympians on the commentary team. A week from now, I'll be heading back to Athens for Greece's second remarkable major sporting event of the year. The Paraly mpics will boast:4000 athletes. 140 countries represented.525 gold medals at stake. 19 sports. There will be no American TV coverage of the Paralympics. Let me repeat that. There will be NO AMERICAN TV COVERAGE OF THE PARALYMPICS. Not one hour of live coverage. Not one commentator. Not one Olympian on the commentary team. Nothing. This at the same time that a record number of journalists are preparing to cover the Paralympics.

Link to complete post on Stuart's weblog. See also these related previous BoingBoing posts: Stuart Hughes covers Olympics on his blog; BBC journalist survives landmine; Xeni on NPR: Tech helps triple amputee to run again (thanks, Karim)

BT steps up SDSL rollout

BT steps up SDSL rollout 07/02/2004 11:43 AM
vnunet.com Jul 2 2004 3:44PM GMT

BT cuts cost of SDSL

BT cuts cost of SDSL 07/22/2004 11:40 AM
Tries to tempt SMEs

Fifty more exchanges to get SDSL

Fifty more exchanges to get SDSL 12/04/2003 11:57 AM
Some people like it fast both ways

Ecological Footprint

Ecological Footprint 04/19/2004 09:52 PM

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MCI expands Wi-Fi footprint

MCI expands Wi-Fi footprint 12/16/2003 04:12 PM
The carrier announces that it will more than triple its footprint of Wi-Fi access points through a partnership with Boingo Wireless.

"How big Al Qaeda's footprint is in the
US"

"How big Al Qaeda's footprint is in the
US" 08/09/2004 08:37 PM

BT Retail extends SDSL availability

BT Retail extends SDSL availability 06/08/2004 10:41 AM
150 metropolitan exchanges

BT Pushes Forward With SDSL Upgrades

BT Pushes Forward With SDSL Upgrades 02/01/2005 09:40 PM
UK telco BT today announced that 500 exchanges around the country would be receiving upgrades to give customers living in those areas access to high speed SDSL. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDSL">SDSL </a>is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Subscriber_Line"& gt;DSL </a>variant, offering high download and upload speeds.

Bruce Stanford, Director of BT Whole sale, today said the move represented BT's continued commitment to broadband. “The wider geographic availability of our wholesale SDSL products will allow more service providers to meet the needs of the growing proportion of smaller businesses, remote office and teleworkers that require business-class broadband services, as well as generating new revenue streams from the introduction of value-added services."

Stanford said that by the end of this financial year 300 exchanges will be able to offer SDSL service, and over four times as many in twelve months time. Once completed, BT will have 1300 exchanges with SDSL services and 2/3 of businesses in the UK will be within reach.

BT have received flack for their slow progress and anti-competitive prices in the broadband department; it emerged last year that the company was charging wholesale resellers of ADSL (like Wanadoo) more than BT customers. OFTEL, the UK telecoms regulator, has raised the <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/28/bt_bogeyman/"& gt;possibility of a BT split up</a>, but is attempting to increase competition in other ways. In other BT news, the company recently announced plans to launch a service similar to PayPal, offering online merchants transaction services. The service will formalise the company's efforts in the area, which already amount to 20m transactions per year.

View: BT Homepage | List Of Exchanges

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Cray Expands Its Footprint

Cray Expands Its Footprint 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
Supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc., which currently sells a single system aimed at the highest echelon of users, is expanding its footprint with systems for slightly less expensive HPC applications.

Can iPod stand on its own footprint?

Can iPod stand on its own footprint? 09/18/2004 12:52 PM
A recent <A HREF="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2004/09/17/cx_ah_0917tente ch.html">article</A> on Forbes.com about the Apple/Beatles lawsuit contains an interesting footnote that brings to light and an more interesting question: Can the iPod name survive without the Apple brand? While the reverse is already being tested by Hewlett Packard, it remains to be see whether any of Apple's products can survive without their namesake. For all of Apple's unique and unmistakable designs, what would happen if the Apple was removed from the front of the iMac? Or the 23-inch Cinema Display? Or the back of the iPod? Forbes seems to think that a move away from the Apple name and symbol "would harm its prospects not one bit. "The iPod brand is turning out to be as powerful a brand name as that of its corporate parent. By itself, it's also free of any expensive encumbrances involving musicians who haven't done anything terribly interesting in the last few years (i.e., The Beatles)." The iPod name is certainly strong enough to exist on its own, but would there be any benefit (aside from the Apple/AppleCorps dispute)? Could Apple create better computers — or better music players — if the pressure was off to do both under the same moniker? I'd like to personally think not, and with the unveiling of the latest iteration of the iMac, it seems that Steve Jobs & Co. can certainly do both, and do it well, if not borrowing from the other side along the way. The iPod is as much Apple as it is its own individual namesake, but splitting the two would likely cause separation anxiety for one — or even both — parties. It's not secret that the iPod has brought Apple back to major player status, and while it may be true that Apple the computer company has ridden Apple the music company to new heights, they most certainly need each other to survive. I mean, just take a look at <A HREF"www.apple.com">Apple.com</A>…

"Ecological Footprint Quiz"

"Ecological Footprint Quiz" 04/21/2004 03:24 AM

SDSL: UK companies ambivalent despite
prices cuts

SDSL: UK companies ambivalent despite
prices cuts 05/27/2004 01:48 PM
ZDNet UK May 27 2004 5:25PM GMT

Bulldog targets SMEs with unbundled SDSL

Bulldog targets SMEs with unbundled SDSL 08/06/2004 11:44 AM
London first, UK by early 2005

London Overground: Wi-Fi Footprint and
Future

London Overground: Wi-Fi Footprint and
Future 06/03/2004 06:30 PM
Extensively researched paper describes scope of commercial, free, and municipal wireless in London, England: Using maps, warflying, stumbling, and other resources, Julian Priest has released an exhaustive look at the state of wireless in London. He looks at the lead that free networking has had in the city due to bans on commercial deployment until early 2002; still, the commercial footprint is extensive. Among many interesting facts and discussions in the paper are the necessary geek per square kilometer density necessary to fully cover London on average with free networks (about 1.25 geek activits per sq. km). Priest also review municipal projects, none of which are rousing successes and many of which demonstrate the limits of straitjacketed civic projects. Priest ends with a call for a wireless festival in London that would celebrate the city's current unwired state, while marketing and educating further to increase density of deployment. [link via James Enck, Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe Ltd]...

Labat footprint grows with SSA
distributorship

Labat footprint grows with SSA
distributorship 11/01/2003 01:56 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Nov 1 2003 0:24AM ET

eBay Today: Double Your Double
Telescoping Dollar

eBay Today: Double Your Double
Telescoping Dollar 02/14/2004 03:48 AM
When it comes to rare vintage Star Wars figures, these two pretty much take the cake....

Zyxel Prestige 681 SDSL router
information leak

Zyxel Prestige 681 SDSL router
information leak 09/13/2004 04:31 PM
Przemyslaw Frasunek (Sep 13 2004)

FireFly 4800 RAID tower: up to 1TB in
9-inch footprint

FireFly 4800 RAID tower: up to 1TB in
9-inch footprint 05/06/2004 02:45 PM
Dynamic Network Factory has released the FireFly 4800 RAID tower. Sporting a 9-inch footprint, the FireFly 4800 features USB 2.0 and FireWire 400/800 connectivity. It stripes data across four IDE drives simultaneously, and it supports RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 5 and 5+hot spare. It's compatible with Mac OS 9.x or OS X v.10.x or higher and comes in 320GB, 480GB, 640GB, 800GB and 1TB capacities for US$1,794, $1,957, $2,046, $2,290 and $1,995, respectively.

"ISP, NY, Long Island, T1, T3, 56K,
ASDL, XDSL, SDSL, Co-location,
Dedicated Servers, Web-Sites,
Web Hosting, Dial-Up"

"ISP, NY, Long Island, T1, T3, 56K,
ASDL, XDSL, SDSL, Co-location,
Dedicated Servers, Web-Sites,
Web Hosting, Dial-Up" 04/03/2005 03:59 PM

Double Your Pagers, Double Your
Hemispheres

Double Your Pagers, Double Your
Hemispheres 07/05/2004 05:20 PM

While we try not to keep it too geeky here, because that would be the easiest way to expose what a fraud I am bore you, this little script from John Muehlhausen is too useful to pass over. It lets you, with a tiny bit of Python wrangling, add Iridium paging failover to compliment your existing pager, meaning you'll have pager service anywhere in the world without cresting the 150 page-a-month limit of Iridium-only service.

Of course, you would have to wear two pagers and look sort of dorky, but if you're already telling your computer to page you via a Python script you're probably well past the gadget dork threshold (and good on you).

Oh, and it's not limited to Iridium, either, so you could tweak to support a second terrestrial pager, so that if a message never makes it to the first pager, a second person could be contacted. SNPP is useful stuff.
Rea d - Skytel to Iridium Progression [mac.com/jogomu]

GOOD EXPANDS GLOBAL FOOTPRINT; ENTERS
CANADA Adds Financial Services Customer;
Signs First Four Canadian VARs

GOOD EXPANDS GLOBAL FOOTPRINT; ENTERS
CANADA Adds Financial Services Customer;
Signs First Four Canadian VARs 08/18/2004 02:34 AM
Good Technology expands internationally, opens a Canadian office. Adds Financial Services Customer; Signs First Four Canadian VARs [PRWEB Aug 18, 2004]

THE GLOBAL
FOOTPRINT STRESS INDEX

THE GLOBAL
FOOTPRINT STRESS INDEX 12/19/2004 02:54 PM

Global Footprint Stress Index: Extreme (purple, >10), High (orange 3-10), Moderate (yellow 1-3), Low (white <1) Last month I wrote an article suggesting that a propensity for war-mongering and civil violence, i.e. the tendency to take hasty and extreme action rather than a reasoned and responsible response to a crisis, might be attributable to what Edward Hall describes as population stress, the adrenaline-driven aggressive/panic stress response that all creatures exhibit when their population greatly exceeds sustainable carrying capacity. Hall explains that this is nature's 'last resort' method of bringing the population of the species quickly back into balance with the rest of the ecosystem, when the species fails to manage its own numbers and when opportunistic diseases don't do the trick. Earlier I had calculated< /a>  a simple Population Stress Index (PSI), which was computed by multiplying density per arable square mile by population growth rate, and I compared it to an astonishingly similar map by another blogger, Matthew White, showing violent death rate by country. As I explained in last month's post, the PSI is an imperfect stress index. It does not show the very different levels of consumption and demand on local resources of people in different countries (which has as much to do with sustainability as population). So I have now computed a Footprint Stress Index (FSI), plotted on the map above, which is computed as follows: First, I calculated the Resource Use Index by taking the aggregate Ecological Footprint (EF) of each country in hectares (the per capita footprint from sources such as the Living Planet Report, times the country's population), and dividing it by the number of habitable hectares of land in the country (I used as a proxy for this the lesser of 80% of total land area and 200% of Oxford's 'arable land area' data). This very useful number indicates the number of times over each country's citizens are using the renewable and sustainable resources available to them. A Resource Use index of 1.0 is sustainable. An index of, say, 5, indicates that to restore the country to sustainability, it needs to do some combination of reducing population and reducing per-capita resource consumption, by a combined 80%. The table below shows some sample Resource Use indices I computed. Then I multiplied this Resource Use Index by the estimated annual growth rate of the country's aggregate Ecological Footprint. For this, I started with the annual population growth rate as a proxy (the EF studies suggest aggregate footprint and population are growing at roughly the same rate), and then substituted more precise EF growth rate numbers when I could find them online (China's EF is growing much faster than its population, for example). Resource Use Index: Sample Countries 80 Japan 60 S.Korea 40 Israel, Palestine 35 Switzerland 25 Netherlands, Belgium, UK 16 Germany 13 Ireland, France, Italy, Venezuela 11 US, Columbia, Chile, Sweden 9 China, Philippines 8 Congo 6 World Overall 6 S.Africa, New Zealand 5  Brasil, Iran, Mexico 3  Canada, India, Iraq, Russia 2  Australia, Argentina 1  A few equatorial African nations Footprint Stress Index: Sample Countries 40+   Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait 30 China 18   Congo 12   Venezuela, Columbia 10   US   8   Chile   6   India, Netherlands, Belgium, Iraq 4.5  World Overall 4.0   Mexico, Iran, UK 3.0   New Zealand, Sweden 2.0   Brasil, Argentina, Japan, France 1.5  Canada, Australia 1.0   S.Korea, Switzerland 0.5  Germany, Italy 0.0  S.Africa, Russia The US, China, Congo, Colombia, Venezuela, and several Mid-Eastern nations all have FSIs in excess of 10. These are all countries embroiled in war, imperialistic or regional or civil, except for China where dissent is ruthlessly suppressed. These are the countries that are suffering enormous anxiety because not only are they consuming vastly more resources than what they have available domestically, their populations or industrial capacities are also growing rapidly, meaning they will need to find ever more resources outside the country to feed the soaring need. Japan, South Korea and most European nations have very high Resource Use Indices, but because their populations are growing slowly and because they are mostly very aware of conservation, their EFs are not increasing. As a result, their FSIs are more moderate. Because they all depend so heavily (90% or more) on imports of other countries' natural resources, however, as these resources get depleted and as exporting countries realize how cheaply they are giving them away, these nations' unsustainable resource demands will not be able to be met, and that will drive their Footprint Stress Indices way up. Once these scarcities become endemic, there will no longer be any option to increase resource use, and at that point the Resource Use Index itself will become the Footprint Stress Index. What will the world be like when dozens of nations, whose economies are using resources at more than ten times the rate they can sustain them from domestic supplies, suddenly find the price of these supplies quadrupling, or that these supplies are not available at any price? Colour all the countries on the left side of the Resource Use Index table above purple on the map at the top of this article and you'll get the idea. We're talking about a world war for increasingly scarce resources. And all of the countries on the right side of that table then become invasion targets. We all know what we have to do. Immediate massive taxes on resources to finance the development of technologies that conserve or don't require natural resources. Shut-down of corporations that waste resources, that pollute, and that produce non-essential products. An end to subsidies, so that we can begin to realize the true cost of our profligate deficit spending. The pay-down of government debts to reduce the risk of economic collapse when interest and inflation rates spike. Incentives for having no children, or maybe one. Of course, we have no appetite for these draconian solutions. The corporatist Frankenstein monster is perpetuating the waste and madness that is producing this crisis, and they accept no responsibility for the ultimate Tragedy of the Commons that will hit us with colossal force once we simply run out of resources to consume to keep civilization's engine running. The hydrogen economy simply won't occur fast enough to stave off disaster. Our best hope is, ironically, that some crisis will shock us into collective action before the real crunch hits. We learned nothing from the oil line-ups a generation ago, but perhaps it is not too late. If the first crisis to hit is manageable, we may be motivated to combine three massive human efforts: Voluntary negative population growth, global large-scale conservation, and an unprecedented investment in innovation and new low-footprint technologies, that could prevent a social, economic and ecological collapse. We survived a Great Depression three quarters of a century ago by exactly this type of huge, collective intervention. That's what we need now. The 'market' isn't going to fix this mess.

ForeThought.net Launches Mach Broadband
- Cable-Crushing Broadband Internet
Service

ForeThought.net Launches Mach Broadband
- Cable-Crushing Broadband Internet
Service 03/14/2005 05:59 PM
foreThought.net, a Denver-based telephone and Internet company, today announced the launch of "Mach", its new ADSL 2+ broadband Internet access service. [PRWEB Mar 11, 2005]

IPWireless Mobile Broadband Technology
to Power Sentechs MyWireless, the First
Nationwide Broadband Wireles

IPWireless Mobile Broadband Technology
to Power Sentechs MyWireless, the First
Nationwide Broadband Wireles 12/10/2003 04:16 PM
ECTA Portal Dec 10 2003 1:56PM ET

Cisco Powers Hong Kong Broadband
Network's 100Mbps and 1Gbps Residential
Broadband Services

Cisco Powers Hong Kong Broadband
Network's 100Mbps and 1Gbps Residential
Broadband Services 02/01/2005 09:50 PM
Investors Business Daily Feb 2 2005 1:50AM GMT

Time Broadband cuts prices for Internet
broadband service

Time Broadband cuts prices for Internet
broadband service 02/12/2004 02:02 PM
Utusan Online Feb 12 2004 6:43PM GMT

Broadband National, Inc. Teams with NCC
to Offer VoIP and Broadband Solutions

Broadband National, Inc. Teams with NCC
to Offer VoIP and Broadband Solutions 06/17/2005 03:16 PM
Broadband National Inc. a has teamed with National Communications Contracting, Inc. to offer high speed solutions to NCC customers inquiring about the telecommunication products and services the company offers. NCC will leverage Broadband National’s IBIS (Integrated Broadband Information System) to deploy broadband and VoIP solutions to small, medium and enterprise level customers. Broadband National’s proprietary platform enables end users to instantly compare broadband solutions offered by more than 40 different suppliers, including SBC Internet Services, Comcast, Covad, XO Communications, ITC DeltaCom, SpeakEasy, and Nuvox. [PRWEB Jun 16, 2005]

Nethercomm Corporation Comments on
Forbes Article where Broadband-in-Gas
Stands out among Traditional Broadband
Technologies by Delivering Connectivity
of 100+Mbps

Nethercomm Corporation Comments on
Forbes Article where Broadband-in-Gas
Stands out among Traditional Broadband
Technologies by Delivering Connectivity
of 100+Mbps 06/05/2005 11:18 PM
Nethercomm Corporation Addresses Forbes Article "Seven Ways to get Traditional Broadband Services", which highlights Broadband-in-Gas, a Compelling Broadband Technology Enabling “Previously Unobtainable Levels of Connectivity of 100+Mbps” [PRWEB May 27, 2005]

Wireless broadband has developed into a
truly versatile broadband communications
medium while the national local loops
experience ongoing access problems

Wireless broadband has developed into a
truly versatile broadband communications
medium while the national local loops
experience ongoing access problems 07/08/2004 03:39 AM
Research and Markets are delighted to announce the addition of 2004 Global Wireless Broadband Report to their offering [PRWEB Jul 8, 2004]

Innovative Broadband Broker Saves
Businesses, Non Profits, Schools and
Government Offices Thousands of Dollars
on T1,DSL,and Broadband. Complimentary
Consultations Available - Act Now!

Innovative Broadband Broker Saves
Businesses, Non Profits, Schools and
Government Offices Thousands of Dollars
on T1,DSL,and Broadband. Complimentary
Consultations Available - Act Now! 08/10/2004 03:50 AM
1st-T1-DSL-Broadband.com offers customers *The world's only real-time T1 price tool *Low Price Guarantee - We will not be undersold *Free unbiased price research will save you money [PRWEB Aug 10, 2004]

Broadband Envy: Fixing American
Broadband

Broadband Envy: Fixing American
Broadband 09/02/2004 10:01 AM

CES Coverage

CES Coverage 01/08/2004 08:22 PM
I have been digging around for a good source of information for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Gizmodo has a...
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