BEIJING, Feb 24, 2010 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- Before the 2010 Spring Festival, there were media reports saying that the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) had issued the first group of licenses for 3G mobile phone video broadcasting.
Eight radio and TV operators were the owners of the licenses, including CCTV, Shanghai Media Group (SMG), People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, and China Radio International (CRI).
However, none of the involved parties had confirmed the news. Even so, analysts believe that traditional media have participated in the production of 3G programs and radio and TV operators have begun cooperation with telecommunications carriers.
No one could hold up the convergence of radio and TV network, the Internet and telecoms network. However, those who set up the admittance threshold first will have more say.
Clearly, the SARFT is tightening its control over the broadcasting of videos through issuing licenses. Telecoms carriers need to cooperate with licensed radio and TV operators to provide 3G mobile phone video services.
Lately, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has selected some cities for the experimental operation of network convergence. Qualified telecoms carriers will be permitted to produce and transmit certain radio and TV programs.
However, license for the production and transmission of programs does not represent the right for free broadcasting, pointed out a top executive of Guangzhou Digital Media Group.
Those who want to obtain the right for program broadcasting must get licenses from the SARFT first, including the licenses for IPTV, online programs, and 2G and 3G mobile phone videos.
By far, the radio and TV operators that have won the 2G mobile phone video licenses include CCTV, China National Radio (CNR), CRI, SMG, and people.com.cn, the online platform of People's Daily.
Video sharing Web sites like youku.com and tudou.com are likely to receive the second group of licenses for 3G mobile phone video broadcasting. After all, they are major providers of videos for Internet users.
Currently, private video sites that have no licenses could cooperate with licensed radio and TV operators. Cooperators could share profits with telecoms carriers.
Meanwhile, mobile phone makers will team up with qualified 3G program producers and serve customers, revealed a top executive of Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Yulong Telecommunication).
Traditional media operators like newspapers and presses have caught up with the pace of network convergence and set foot in the 3G mobile phone video fields. Their top priority is to provide programs satisfying the taste of customers.
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Taiwan $30/Month Fiber is Slow
Chunghwa has about a million subscribers as they rapidly run fiber to almost every basement on the island. Instead of dragging fiber to each apartment, they are saving money by using the existing wiring and 100 megabit VDSL up to the apartment (Zyxel, Broadcom.) It's $72 for 5 meg upstream, 100 meg down, $38 for 2 up, 10 down, and a new offering, $30/month for 768K up, 3 meg down. The last is about the same price and speed as Chunghwa's ADSL offerings, but has far more possibilities for upgrades and IPTV. Chunghwa has almost 600,000 video customers. Chunghwa offers a $10 low end service (64K up, 256K down) with half a million subscribers. Under government prodding, most of these prices have just come down.
Once the fiber is in the basement, VDSL costs are about the same as ADSL costs, so the natural deployment of all new lines is FTTB + VDSL. The small additional equipment cost will be more than covered by the by customers who can instantly upgrade to higher speeds.
Chunghwa's total of 4.32M broadband subscribers is only up 2% in the last year, and is unlikely to climb much more. Written by Dave Burstein
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Once the fiber is in the basement, VDSL costs are about the same as ADSL costs, so the natural deployment of all new lines is FTTB + VDSL. The small additional equipment cost will be more than covered by the by customers who can instantly upgrade to higher speeds.
Chunghwa's total of 4.32M broadband subscribers is only up 2% in the last year, and is unlikely to climb much more. Written by Dave Burstein
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100% Fiber Home in Canada
fiber_optics_blueBell Aliant is running fiber to all 70,000 homes and businesses in Fredericton and Saint John, with the help of a modest subsidy (about 15%) from the government. In return, they have promised “universal service,” with fiber available to everyone. As Simon Avery reports,
“Fredericton and Saint John will have the fastest Internet connections in the country by the middle of next year, following news of a $60-million plan from Bell Aliant Regional Communications Income Fund to run fibre-optic cable into homes and businesses. The investment will mark the first time that a Canadian phone company has deployed fibre-to-the-home for an entire city. ... Bell Aliant has paid close attention to the $20-billion (U.S.) deployment of fibre to the home in the U.S. by Verizon Communications Inc.” Avery included my comment Verizon is “one of the best networks in the world.”
Some people will never forgive me for being so complimentary about a telco, but it's true.
Active Ethernet is better than GPON, but GPON's 200 meg in each direction is good enough for me. Avery's writeup is http://bit.ly/11vlYq. Glen Campbell believes Bell Canada itself may "do FTTP overbuilds on a selective basis, targeting suburban communities with aerial plant. For Bell Canada, roughly one-third of its serving area (concentrated heavily in Quebec) has aerial plant. Management confirmed to us that FTTP is under serious consideration for these markets.
Verizon's commitment last year to New York City for 100% service by 2012 was historic, making my town probably the first large city promised 100% fiber. They recently extended the same to Pittsburgh and other cities. There were a slew of Verizon concessions in the New York franchise agreement but no subsidy.
Universal service is expensive, so SBC/AT&T in particular has been attacking it. In 2002, then-President Bill Daley suggested they would abandon it. He got angry when I wrote he had implied SBC was facing insolvency, claiming he had never said anything of the sort. I replied that states like Illinois would not allow SBC to retreat from universal service unless bankruptcy or similar was imminent; SBC couldn't risk their franchises by backing away from universal service unless finances were desperate. His boss, Ed Whitacre, was around the same time making speeches that unbundling (UNE's) would kill the company and therefore had to be squashed.
Policy people took Ed's claims seriously although they were obvious falsehoods. The chair of the FCC repeated some. Ed was also going to wall street and talking about how well the company was doing and that it would do even better in the future. They raised their dividend every year. You didn't have to be a sophisticated financial analyst to see they were reporting $billions in profits every quarter the same time their CEO was saying the situation was desperate to D.C..
It is standard procedure at most companies to lie to policymakers as well as reporters. I remember listening to Paul Reynolds of BT saying something I was pretty sure was misleading at best. Paul one of the best in the business; if he says something that disagrees with what I believe, I go back and look to see if I'm mistaken. One of his colleagues told me to ignore what Paul had said, “He was speaking for the regulator.”
It's much less common to lie to wall street, which is why Bill Kennard as FCC chair made a point of attending wall street events and listening. It was an important reality check on what the same company was saying in Washington. If a reporter thinks you are lying, so what? But if a top wall street analyst thinks you are lying, they may downgrade the company. I've seen a downgrade pull literally millions off a CEO's options in a single day.Written by FNN contributor Tuesday, 07 July 2009
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“Fredericton and Saint John will have the fastest Internet connections in the country by the middle of next year, following news of a $60-million plan from Bell Aliant Regional Communications Income Fund to run fibre-optic cable into homes and businesses. The investment will mark the first time that a Canadian phone company has deployed fibre-to-the-home for an entire city. ... Bell Aliant has paid close attention to the $20-billion (U.S.) deployment of fibre to the home in the U.S. by Verizon Communications Inc.” Avery included my comment Verizon is “one of the best networks in the world.”
Some people will never forgive me for being so complimentary about a telco, but it's true.
Active Ethernet is better than GPON, but GPON's 200 meg in each direction is good enough for me. Avery's writeup is http://bit.ly/11vlYq. Glen Campbell believes Bell Canada itself may "do FTTP overbuilds on a selective basis, targeting suburban communities with aerial plant. For Bell Canada, roughly one-third of its serving area (concentrated heavily in Quebec) has aerial plant. Management confirmed to us that FTTP is under serious consideration for these markets.
Verizon's commitment last year to New York City for 100% service by 2012 was historic, making my town probably the first large city promised 100% fiber. They recently extended the same to Pittsburgh and other cities. There were a slew of Verizon concessions in the New York franchise agreement but no subsidy.
Universal service is expensive, so SBC/AT&T in particular has been attacking it. In 2002, then-President Bill Daley suggested they would abandon it. He got angry when I wrote he had implied SBC was facing insolvency, claiming he had never said anything of the sort. I replied that states like Illinois would not allow SBC to retreat from universal service unless bankruptcy or similar was imminent; SBC couldn't risk their franchises by backing away from universal service unless finances were desperate. His boss, Ed Whitacre, was around the same time making speeches that unbundling (UNE's) would kill the company and therefore had to be squashed.
Policy people took Ed's claims seriously although they were obvious falsehoods. The chair of the FCC repeated some. Ed was also going to wall street and talking about how well the company was doing and that it would do even better in the future. They raised their dividend every year. You didn't have to be a sophisticated financial analyst to see they were reporting $billions in profits every quarter the same time their CEO was saying the situation was desperate to D.C..
It is standard procedure at most companies to lie to policymakers as well as reporters. I remember listening to Paul Reynolds of BT saying something I was pretty sure was misleading at best. Paul one of the best in the business; if he says something that disagrees with what I believe, I go back and look to see if I'm mistaken. One of his colleagues told me to ignore what Paul had said, “He was speaking for the regulator.”
It's much less common to lie to wall street, which is why Bill Kennard as FCC chair made a point of attending wall street events and listening. It was an important reality check on what the same company was saying in Washington. If a reporter thinks you are lying, so what? But if a top wall street analyst thinks you are lying, they may downgrade the company. I've seen a downgrade pull literally millions off a CEO's options in a single day.Written by FNN contributor Tuesday, 07 July 2009
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