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Topics: Smart Grids; Cloud Computing; 4G World; Green Telecom; Broadband Stimulus

Bigger broadband bucks require better broadband brains

Published Monday, September 15, 2008

There is tremendous Internet buzz right now about new ways to price broadband to include tiered services, metered rates or broadband caps. Service providers say they are considering such actions for multiple reasons, the most prominent being the need to continually fund network upgrades to accommodate the increase in Internet traffic — more specifically, Internet video traffic. The triple-play services thought to drive more dollars to the bottom line have instead rapidly become virtual commodities and not cash cows. In many cases, the triple-play revenues aren't even replacing the revenue lost to diminished access lines. Service providers also ...

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