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AT&T says the second generation of G.Fast technology could help the company deliver speeds up to 1.5 Gbps to apartment complexes and homes. G.Fast is a technology that uses vectoring to reduce the cross-talk interference that traditionally plagues copper lines, helping companies reduce line noise and boost DSL speeds over short distances. And while this technology has been hyped for years, we"ve only just begun to see limited implementation of the technology by Frontier and other telcos looking to selectively upgrade select DSL subscribers on the cheap.
In the 22 markets AT&T says it"s deploying the technology the company says it will charge $40 for 50Mbps download speeds, $60 for 100Mbps, and $80 for 500Mbps. The announcement was notable in that AT&T intends to bring an additional layer of competition to ISPs outside of the company"s traditional fixed-line footprint, an idea AT&T has historically tried to avoid.
And AT&T now says the company should be able to deliver even faster speeds with the second generation of G.Fast tech. In an interview with Fierce Wireless, AT&T exec Eric Small says the company should be able to deliver 1.5 Gbps over existing coax cable and copper.
In generation 2, you get about 1.5 Gbps of throughput, said Small. Not that you would use more than a gig in either direction, but it gives you the flexibility to use a gig in one direction and 500 Mbps in the other direction.
Small notes that the second generation of Gfast, which is expected to be released next year, will enable something called reverse power feeding (RFP) -- which allows sending power from the customer premises to a distribution point (DP), to power the distribution point unit (DPU).
The really interesting part of the second generation of Gfast is it allows for reverse powering, which means the power could come from the individual subscribers, Small said. This becomes helpful depending on where we end up with FCC rules for battery backup on the network side backup. read comment(s)
■Google has struck a long rumored deal with HTC. However the search giant hasn "t bought the phone maker. Instead, it has paid $1.1 billion to HTC to acquire the team behind its Pixel devices. They "ll leave HTC and join Google "s ranks. Google will also receive a non-exclusive license to some HTC intellectual property, the companies said Thursday. HTC will still be a separate company, even after the agreement between it and Google closes in early 2018. The phone-maker will continue to have its own staff as ...
We"ve long noted that one of the biggest driver of soaring cable TV price hikes is sports programming. And in many instances this is content many users may not even want; one survey indicating that 56% of consumers would ditch ESPN completely if it meant saving the estimated $8 per month the channel costs each subscriber. But when cable providers have tried to remove ESPN from core channel bundles, they"ve faced lawsuits from the "worldwide leader in sports," which apparently believes it will get to milk the existing bloated bundle cableTV cash cow indefinitely.
But there"s every indication that this is a tenuous situation that"s headed to the breaking point.
Axios directs your attention to Magna"s latest Media Sports Report. which indicates that the cost of sports programming licenses now well exceeds the money cable providers make via advertising during games. For the NBA alone, the $2.6 billion in broadcast fees well exceeds the $1.3 billion made from ads during the broadcasts. The same is true for the NFL, where cablecos pay $4.4 billion for licensing rights, but make $3.9 billion on game ads.
This dynamic has had a devastating impact on channels like ESPN, where executives failed to notice cord cutting until it was already too late. The channel has lost more than 11 million regular viewers in just the last few years, despite consistently ramping up the money spent on sports licensing deals. As a result, ESPN laid off many of its best writers and reporters, but none of the executives that failed to notice the massive revolutionary shift occurring in the cable sector.
As such, Magna analysts state the obvious when they say they "don"t see the ever-increasing gap between ad revenues and rights fees as sustainable in the long term," something consumers likely could have told them several years ago.
Of course cable providers have plenty of additional options when it comes to making up any lost revenue. That includes not only the often bi-annual rate hikes for cable TV, but the sneaky fees cable providers increasingly use to falsely advertise a lower price. And as profit margins tighten on TV, most pay TV providers have begun abusing the lack of competition in the broadband space as well, imposing arbitrary and unnecessary broadband usage caps and overage fees -- useful in grabbing their pound of flesh from users that cut the cord for streaming alternatives. read comment(s)
Confirming several weeks of rumors, Google and HTC have announced that Google will be buying part of HTC"s smartphone manufacturing team for $1.1 billion. HTC (which has built several of Google"s Pixel smartphones) has been operating at a loss for well over a year and needed additional funds to stay afloat. Google, meanwhile, has been interested in acquiring a company like HTC to more directly manufacture the company"s own mobile hardware.
According to the joint announcement by the companies, the $1.1 billion all cash offer also gives Google a non-exclusive license for HTC intellectual property.
These future fellow Googlers are amazing folks we ve already been working with closely on the Pixel smartphone line, and we"re excited to see what we can do together as one team, Google hardware exec Rick Osterloh said in an accompanying blog post.
"In many ways, this agreement is a testament to the decade-long history of teamwork between HTC and Google," Osterloh added. "Together, we ve achieved several mobile-industry firsts, including the first ever Android smartphone, the HTC Dream, also known as the T-Mobile G1 (I loved mine!); as well as the Nexus One in 2010, the Nexus 9 tablet in 2014, and the first Pixel smartphone just last year."
While a chunk of HTC"s team will be moving over to Google, HTC says the company will retain more than 2,000 research and design staffers after the deal is done. The company will also continue to design and sell its own smartphones, the company stating it"s still "actively preparing" for the launch of its next flagship phone.
Back in January, you might recall that the FTC sued hardware vendor D-Link for adequately failing to secure the company"s home networking hardware. According to the original FTC complaint, an agency inquiry found that while D-Link PR material consistently claimed the highest security standards, little to nothing was done by the company to eliminate a number of "well-known and easily preventable security flaws" that potentially put millions of residential consumers at risk. The flaws, found in both D-Link routers and cameras, included:
• "Hard-coded" login credentials integrated into D-Link camera software -- such as the username guest and the password guest -- that could allow unauthorized access to the cameras live feed.
• A software flaw known as command injection that could enable remote attackers to take control of consumers routers by sending them unauthorized commands over the Internet.
• The mishandling of a private key code used to sign into D-Link software, such that it was openly available on a public website for six months; and
• Leaving users" login credentials for D-Link s mobile app unsecured in clear, readable text on their mobile devices, even though there is free software available to secure the information.
But a Judge has now dismissed the FTC"s case (pdf, hat tip to the fine folks at the Consumerist), claiming that the FTC failed to provide enough specific examples of harm done to consumers, or specific instances when the routers in question were breached.
The FTC does not identify a single incident where a consumer s financial, medical or other sensitive personal information has been accessed, exposed or misused in any way, or whose IP camera has been compromised by unauthorized parties, or who has suffered any harm or even simple annoyance and inconvenience from the alleged security flaws in the D-Link devices, wrote the Judge. The absence of any concrete facts makes it just as possible that D-Link s devices are not likely to substantially harm consumers, and the FTC cannot rely on wholly conclusory allegations about potential injury to tilt the balance in its favor.
Of course that doesn"t mean D-Link"s products were secure, just that the FTC did a piss poor job presenting the case, or citing more clear examples of consumer harm. But default credentials are among the worst habits of many hardware vendors, and have been routinely abused by hackers for years. And D-Link isn"t alone when it comes to half-assed security; the FTC settled a similar case against Asus back in early 2016. read comment(s)
So far, the Trump administration and his Ajit Pai-run FCC have acted as little more than a rubber stamps for AT&T, Verizon and Comcast, whether that"s axing broadband privacy rules, the killing of net neutrality, or the dismantling of plans to improve cable box competition. This rubber stamp approach to regulating has extended to approval of potentially anti-competitive deals like AT&T"s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner, despite Trump"s campaign promise to block the deal. That has resulted in a wave of merger mania and merger proposals that were previously seen as horrible and impossible.
For his part, Comcast"s top lobbyist David Cohen think it"s unlikely that Trump will block many deals in the telecom space, no matter how large.
Overall, this president and this administration is likely less hostile to horizontal growth or even vertical growth in the telecom space and elsewhere, Cohen said during an interview this week on CSpan"s The Communicators. I don t think that s a license for anything goes, the lobbyist added, while admitting there"s pretty clearly going to be less hostility and a greater willingness to allow the market to work.
So far though, "anything goes" does appear to be the law of the land, whether the deals help the "market work" or not. AT&T"s acquisition of Time Warner is being green lit by the Trump DOJ despite widespread concern the deal will make it harder for streaming providers to compete with AT&T"s own DirecTV Now service. The Trump administration is also likely to approve a Sprint and T-Mobile merger, previously blocked by regulators because it would have reduced competition by eliminating one of four major carriers in the space.
Trump had also promised to somehow break up Comcast"s 2011 acquisition of NBC Universal, something that obviously didn"t happen. But Comcast isn"t ruling out deals of its own, and was rumored to at least be contemplating its own joint bid for Sprint with Charter Communications. A tie up between Comcast and Verizon -- which would have a devastating impact on the already barely-competitive US broadband market, has also been a Wall Street rumor for months.
We re not out there saying, Oh my god, to survive we need something else to buy, Cohen said. On the other hand, we have never viewed ourself from being foreclosed from the acquisition marketplace, either domestically or internationally. read comment(s)
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