“We believe that the next five years are about two things: wireless and content,” said Crowe, 57. “We will be building our network further and further out to be more wireless- and content-friendly.”
Demand for video content, especially through cellphones, will surge, and Level 3, through its recent acquisitions, is positioned to capitalize, Crowe said.
FiberCo Announces Professional Services For Research and Higher Education Community “ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ — FiberCo(R), a fiber holding company formed by Internet2 to support dark fiber initiatives for U.S. research and higher education, today announced that it has teamed with Level 3 Communications to offer a new suite of customized professional services to assist universities and regional networks with efficiently planning, installing, managing and operating their advanced network infrastructures…”
landing MySpace, YouTube, and now PhotoBucket…………it just keeps getting BETTER and BETTER for Level3……….
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Triple Play of high Speed, VOIP, and Cable Video TV is working………
Residential high-speed data subscribers rose by 214,000 in Time Warner Cable’s historical systems. This represents the fifth consecutive quarter in which net subscriber additions surpassed 200,000. In addition, residential high-speed data subscribers increased by 37,000 in the acquired systems. Total residential high-speed data subscribers at the end of the quarter were 6.4 million, representing approximately 25% of service-ready homes passed. Digital Phone subscribers grew by 187,000 in the quarter for a total of 1.6 million, representing approximately 11% of service-ready homes passed. For additional subscriber and homes passed informa
Online video breaks out
Brightcove wants to help Internet TV enter the big time. The company’s Web site is launching services to help consumers find Web video, and to help content providers make money in the bargain. Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research said Brightcove’s site — which will feature videos and links to cable channels and other customers — will lead “hungry tourists” to a “smorgasbord” of video. The site will also let commercial customers sell ads, place their content on third-party sites, and sell downloads to consumers. There’s a catch. Brightcove’s videos might not work on iPods, said Gartner’s Allen Weiner, which “prevents this from being a landslide.” (USA Today)
September 19, 2006
The Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) licenses auction by the Federal Communications Commission has come to a close, and that means more 3G wireless coming your way in, well, just about everywhere. The big winner is T-Mobile, which spent $4.182 billion (with a B) to land 120 licenses for spectrum coving areas of the U.S. (including Hawaii and Alaska) and Puerto Rico, including prime markets of LA, Chicago and New York. NextWave Wireless didn’t do badly either, getting 154 licenses (for just $115.5 million) covering markets like Pittsburgh, Puerto Rico, Indianapolis, Sacramento, New Orleans, Tulsa, Little Rock, El Paso, Albany, Louisville, Sarasota, Anchorage and Fort Myers — but it wasn’t even considered one of the top five winners. They include Verizon Wireless, MetroPCS, Cingular, and a consortium of cable companies (Time Warner, Cox, Comcast and Bright House) under the name Spectrum Co. It’s all still subject to regulatory approval. The total amount raised by the FCC with this auction? $13.9 billion for 1,087 licenses spread across 104 bidding companies. In 2008, the FCC will sell off unused television broadcast spectrum
Communications Revenue Quarter ended Quarter ended Percent ($ in millions) Sept. 30, 2006 (1) June 30, 2006 (2) Change Transport and Infrastructure $284 $217 31% IP and Data $78 $67 16% Voice $153 $107 43% Vyvx $29 $30 (3%) Total Core Communications Services $544 $421 29% Other Communications Services $107 $120 (11%) SBC Contract Services $207 $278 (26%) Total Communications Revenue $858 $819 5%
wow, these are AWESOME NUMBERS that Google is going to charge for “”VIDEO ADVERTISING”"
HOW does the Black Boxes of Google and YouTube play into this scenario????
Answer:::: FREE WIMAX in USA supplied by Google
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Sun Microsystems has a datacenter in a shipping container, called Project Blackbox, on the verge of being officially announced. We have seen such a construct mentioned elsewhere.
We would be criminally remiss if we did not take you back to November 2005, where what was very likely a Project Blackbox prototype had been spotted at Google’s headquarters, and duly passed along to tech pundit Robert X. Cringely.
He had connected the mysterious and off-limits portable datacenter as something Google could have trucked to and linked in to the various points where the company could connect the datacenters to the dark fiber Google has purchased in substantial quantities.
We suggested one potential use for such datacenters would be to support video advertising by dropping them near peering points all over the US. To wit:
Forget about latency if Google drops one of these off at a peering point near you. High-bandwidth and low cost means Google can deliver streaming video content without a hiccup.
Then the story kind of faded away amid chatter about GoogleNet, Ajax-powered office productivity suites, and even Google Cubes populating mailboxes like so many AOL CDs. Almost a year passes.
Now, Dean Takahashi at the Mercury News has dished the early peek at Sun’s Blackbox, which will reportedly debut today. They won’t be available until the middle of 2007, but look at what website/recent Google purchase received a mention from a Sun rep:
Sun’s Blackbox data center will be designed to fit a variety of customer needs. Sun says Project Blackbox is a good fit for fast-growing firms such as YouTube that have to add computing capacity quickly to deal with huge increases in traffic.
Google and Sun have had a long-standing friendly relationship, and Sun envisions other types of usage for their Blackbox. But considering Sun’s economic doldrums, is it unreasonable to think that Sun undertook Project Blackbox with a potential sale to Google in mind?
Level3 buys Broadwing for 1.46 Billion and the ‘'’Data Godfather'’ of Omaha Walter Scott warns Warren Buffett ‘'’you MIGHT want to BUY IN”" before its $7
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