Can operators really live on access fees alone?
There is little doubt that City Telecom-owned broadband operator Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) is one of the most remarkable operators in Asia Pacific. What the operator has achieved on a modest...
View ArticleMalcolm Turnbull’s Asian roadtrip fails to land a punch on the NBN
For those people reading this column unfamiliar with Australian domestic politics let me introduce the Rt. Hon. Malcolm Turnbull, Federal MP for Wentworth. There is little doubt that Turnbull is by far...
View ArticleUnlimited plans are still ruling the mobile broadband waves
In this job I am lucky to get to travel to some truly fantastic cities: This year alone I have been able to visit three of the most amazing places on the planet – London, Shanghai and Hong Kong – and I...
View ArticleUQC’s WiMAX 2 upgrade opens up new possibilities
Having lived the first half of my adult life in the UK and the second half in Australia, it is little wonder that I have such a strong affinity with the underdog in a given situation, since both...
View ArticleHutch’s FTTB price cuts set the dumb-pipe question raging again
As another operator launches cheap fibre broadband in Hong Kong, the debate continues on whether they should become more than a dumb-pipe operator Sometimes the good people of Hong Kong must wonder...
View ArticleDSL the silent King of the APAC broadband market
Conventional wisdom has it that the APAC region is dominated by high-speed fibre networks and that nobody in the region could ever be so gauche as to still be running something as old hat as plain old...
View ArticleCan Hulu crack Japan’s crowded online video market?
The announcement on Aug. 10 that US online-video site Hulu was planning to make its first foray into Asia Pacific with the launch of services in Japan did not come as a particularly big surprise,...
View ArticleOTT outfits play their cards close to their chest
To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) put together a blockbuster CASBAA Convention 2011 in Hong Kong in early November. But some of the...
View ArticleIt’s War: KT cuts off Samsung’s OTT content
Somewhat ironically I had only just returned home from the Content Delivery Networks Asia 2012 conference in Hong Kong – where telco CDN’s were touted as the solution to the great telco versus OTT...
View ArticleHuawei’s NBN block out raises fundamental questions
For those of us who spend our lives in the bubble of the international telecoms industry it was not exactly a massive surprise to see the news that Chinese vendor Huawei would be blocked from bidding...
View ArticleHKBN sell off opens way for content push
There are some deals that you really should see coming a long way off but somehow you miss them and then when the headline lands in your inbox like a right-hook from Mike Tyson back in the 1980′s you...
View ArticleAsia Pacific operators need to find the right way to sell connected-home...
Having traveled the global telecoms-conference circuit for more years than I care to remember, I have lost count of the number of forthcoming “revolutionary” services I have heard breathlessly...
View ArticleLTE can’t save Australia from required fixed broadband upgrades
Malcolm Turnbull: "Fitter than the proverbial butcher’s dog" Broadly speaking life is pretty sweet for Malcolm Turnbull, Australia’s shadow minister for communications and broadband. He has a reported...
View ArticleMobile VoIP ruling a key moment for South Korean Net Neutrality
Local mobile operators have been infuriated by the arrival of OTT mVoIP players The decision by the Korean Communications Commission to allow mobile operators to charge subscribers for accessing mobile...
View ArticleChina Mobile: Is it the missing link in cable operators’ broadband revolution?
Let’s imagine you are a cashed-up investor looking to park your money someplace you can get a decent return and during your daily reading you read about a minor broadband operator that says it will...
View ArticleRumours of Telekom Malaysia deal to buy WiMAX king P1 don’t add up
Like most other people in the telecoms industry I do love a good rumour, there’s simply nothing better than working out the different reasons behind a rumoured deal and then wondering if there’s some...
View ArticleVectoring fueling superfast broadband in Europe but faces challenges in Asia
Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once famously remarked that “a week is a long time in politics.” Few would doubt that, but judging from the change in mood between Broadband World Forums...
View ArticleLTE + Smartphones = potential headache for FTTH operators
Here in Australia the debate over the A$37 billion FTTH National Broadband Network (NBN) has been as bitter and partisan as anything I have seen in my 15 years living down under, at times it has made...
View ArticleChina’s green light for MVNO’s opens market for OTT giants
I was in a hotel bar in Hong Kong when I got one of my first major tipoffs as a budding telecoms journalist. It came from a well-lubricated telecoms-industry executive whom I never saw again. “Look, I...
View ArticleBroadband operators must beware of the dangers of FTTH ‘speed race’
The news last month that Japanese ISP So-Net was launching the Nuro 2Gbps FTTH service for residential users – the fastest residential service in the world – was greeted with envy by bandwidth-starved...
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