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Smart Pipe Business Model
Developing Net Neutrality-Aware Strategies for Home and Mobile Internet
Concept Report
Ian Fogg -
September 17, 2008

Mobile operators are offering more flat rate Internet access tariffs to grow data revenues. They are attempting to retain their value chain position using smart pipe business models that are similar to those that home ISPs are deploying to generate new revenues.


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Home Broadband Bandwidth Requirements
Assessing Scenarios for Fiber Business Cases
Concept Report
Ian Fogg -
September 9, 2008

Operators are assessing the relative merits of business cases for fiber to the curb (FTTC) versus fiber to the home (FTTH) deployments, based in part on expected levels of consumer activity and uptake of broadband-related services including IPTV.


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Demand for Fiber Speeds
Segmenting Targets for Next-Gen Internet
Concept Report
Ian Fogg -
July 15, 2008

Operators across Europe are developing business cases for fiber (FTTx) broadband Internet, which delivers very high speeds. Other ISPs are assessing how to counter such services.


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The Fiber Alphabet
FTTx Broadband Technology and Its Effect on Net Neutrality
Concept Report
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June 20, 2008

The variety of different fiber (FTTx) technologies that ISPs are using has created a mass of new terminologies that Internet businesses must understand.


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The Fiber Future
How FTTx Speeds Compare with WiMAX, 3G, DSL, and Cable
Concept Report
Ian Fogg -
June 20, 2008

Internet service providers (ISPs) are beginning to deploy new fiber (FTTx) broadband networks that will transform consumers' experience of the Internet.


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CEE Broadband Forecast, 2008 to 2013
Quantifying Dial-up's Eastern Demise and Broadband's Growth Opportunities
Vision Report
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June 9, 2008

Central and Eastern European (CEE) Internet access markets are quickly maturing, with numerous fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) initiatives planned or in progress.


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Charting Piracy
Analyzing File Sharing's Inconvenient Truths
Concept Report
Ian Fogg -
April 18, 2008

Increasingly ubiquitous broadband has created a universal platform for piracy. ISPs have largely curtailed their Internet content businesses, yet have launched IPTV services that are routinely bundled with broadband Internet access.


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Multi-Play Consumer Survey, 2007
Acquisition and Retention in a Colliding Communications and Entertainment Market
Vision Report
Ian Fogg -
March 11, 2008

The mobile, broadband, home phone, and television markets are in the process of colliding as operators diversify into each others' home territory. Multi-play offers are at the heart of this new, emerging single market for communications and entertainment.


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Instant Messaging Growth
Quantifying the Link Between Skype, IM, and Social Networks
Concept Report
Ian Fogg -
January 30, 2008

In 2007, European instant messaging (IM) adoption continued to increase, at the same time that social networking services became higher profile. Many of the international social networks launched localized offerings to target individual country needs.


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Broadband Away Game Strategies
Benchmarking Europe's Historic Operators
Concept Report
Ian Fogg -
January 7, 2008

The pressure to invest in local loop unbundling, IPTV, and FTTx continues to drive ISP consolidation in Europe. Additionally, Europe's incumbents, or historic operators, are seeking growth outside their original home markets.


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Competing with Free Communications
Delivering Revenues from Rising Consumer Adoption of Digital Communications
Vision Report
Ian Fogg -
November 14, 2007

Telecom operators have diversified into TV services, while Internet players have continued to grow their communications audiences that mainly use free services. Operators must assess ways to adapt to the changing communications market.


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Innovative Fring Extends Free Internet Communications Business Models to Mobile
Case Study
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November 14, 2007

Fring is a start-up that offers mobile software, which interoperates with Skype, Windows Live Messenger, ICQ, Google Talk, Twitter, and VoIP providers based on session initiated protocol (SIP). Fring also has a partnership with The Cloud, a public Wi-Fi hotspot provider.


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