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Broadband frequencies allow high-capacity data transmission.
Broadband Race Is on the Rise in Hong Kong
Last week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5 licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS), and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites). The licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15 years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial cable networks.
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The battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high. Optic fiber to
the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology using power lines may
jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions per day. The dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world markets, all may not have the
same solution. Satellite systems have a role, but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure to be out of the box answers.
``Wireless Internet devices will not only capture some existing PC applications but
introduce brand new applications that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'
Engibous told a Tokyo seminar on the company's strategy.
``I think the availability of a wireless device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley' is just beginning to dream about, he added.
With next-generation mobile phone services, users will be able to surf the Web,
check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences and use new mobile
services such as e-commerce, he said.
Next-generation mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
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Broadband in the Local Loop 98:
Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
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New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages
and head start of cable modems
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According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1 worldwide by the year 2003. The five-year growth rate for cable modems is
forecast to be 93% in North America and 114% in other regions.
The Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications. Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open to question.
DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable, data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by the telcos. The cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access, and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities, unencumbered by existing services.
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