AT&T pushes harder towards wireless broadband
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It looks as obvious that the telecoms world is moving towards wireless connections. AT&T stress this trend, once again, with three announcements that sound like three commitments:
AT&T to offer a satellite-based broadband service in late May in select rural markets that aren’t currently covered by landline broadband. WildBlue will power the service and rural subscribers would get a 1.5 Mbps/256 Kbps downlink/uplink broadband access for at least $50.
AT&T to support and deploy WiMax across the country. Texas and Nevada are the forthcoming states to get blanketed.
AT&T to keep developing its Project Lightspeed video services within the next three years. Project Lightspeed is very high-speed broadband landline connection, able to reach the “25 Mbps and more at shorter loop lenghts”, according to John Stankey, AT&T’s senior executive vice president and chief technology officer. Once deployed, stronger triple-play offers should come out.
To show their commitment and their seriousness, AT&T plans to spend around $4.6 billion only on its Project Lightspeed initiative by year-end 2008.
UPDATE (May 11, 2006) ― If AT&T DSL acquires new market shares, some others will have to loose some. Most likely cablecos:
“Cable picked up a little bit this quarter but not a lot. The way Verizon and AT&T are going, they are just killing them. My real impression is that the telcos are just under-pricing them to death. I would be extremely surprised if the cable companies are able to stop this onslaught”, said Clifford Holliday of Iniformation Gatekeepers Inc. to Telephony Online.
While cablecos added just under 1.1 million cable modem subscribers in the first quarter, telcos added almost 2.7 million US subscribers.
May 10, 2006 | By Nuno
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