Back to our friends at the FCC. ... Robert Cringely (The Gloves Come Off: Thanks to the Supreme Court and the FCC, U.S. Telcos Are About to Reinvent Their DSL Businesses) does an excellent job putting the DSL wholesale decision in perspective.

If you read our previous post on FCC Back in the Republican Flock, you'll know we're not surprised that special interests (the telcos) were the big winner, consumer interests were not a part of the decision, and that (Cringely) "for sure, the logic used to support all these decisions is, itself, bogus."

What is interesting is the advent of ADSL2+, which will suprass cable for speed. I was directly involved with the first major drive of digital broadcast video - ITV - 10 years ago at SBC SNET. Back then there were no standards and set-top boxes, which were the primary cost driver, were prohibitively expensive, quite the opposite of the Stupid Network. We knew the answer back then lay in this newfangled thing called the Internet. It's definitely coming soon with fast broadband, your home PC or other digital home device, and a $50 broadband modem/router.

ADSL2+ (or whatever it morphs itself into 2 years from now) is 24 megabits pe second, ten times typical DSL. That is a whole lotta bits. It's not only a boon for video over IP, it's a feast for P2P. ... Can we say HDTV over P2P?

Marc Freedman
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