DSL Articles

11-28-05
A War Worth Watching: Baby Bells vs. Cable (Again)

Source: The New York Times
Author: Lorne Manly and Ken Belson

11-15-05
USTelecom Report: VoIP Subscriptions Up in Q3

Source: The Washington Post
Author: Arshad Mohammed

11-14-05
Telcos Outsold Cable in High Speed Access

Source: Telephony Online

September 2005

09-28-05
Nielsen/NetRatings: Two in Five U.S. Residents Have Broadband at Home

Forty-two percent of U.S. residents have broadband at home as of last month - a 16 percent increase from the beginning of this year, according to new research from Nielsen/NetRatings."

Source: Online Media Daily

08-26-05
Parks: IPTV to Hit its Stride in 2008

"IPTV will gain momentum by 2008 and will have 21.7 million subscribers by 2009, a report by Parks Associates predicts. The report says telcos will have a number of options for marketing IPTV and suggests they break down target groups in four segments: the TV on My Terms group; the Interact With Me Group; the Converge Me segment; and the Do Not Bother Me group."

Source: Telephony Online
Author: Vince Vittore

08-26-05
Report: VoIP Gear Q2 Revenues Soar

"Revenues from VoIP gear in the second quarter hit $614 million, an 18% increase from the first quarter and up 55% from a year earlier, Infonetics Research reports. Annual VoIP revenues will reach $5.7 billion by 2008, Infonetics predicts."

Source: TechWeb Network
Author: Matthew Friedman

08-23-2005
Study: Broadband Growth Opens New Market for Web Portals

"Broadband deployment has reached a critical mass and sites devoted to entertainment, customization, advanced communications, and personal pages account for the majority of Web surfing, according to a report by JupiterResearch. The study says companies can capitalize on the growth of broadband by deploying graphics-heavy sites devoted to multimedia applications, such as the one offered by America Online.

Source: TechWeb Network
Author: K.C.Jones

08-23-05
Cable Lead in Broadband Continues to Erode

"In the second quarter of 2005, the number of American households subscribing to high-speed Internet service grew by 46% on an annual basis. And incumbent telcos continue to gain a larger percentage of the U.S. broadband subscriber base."

Source: Broadband Daily

"Verizon Communications and other U.S. local telephone companies will be freed of some requirements to lease high-speed Internet lines so rivals can offer their own service, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission ruled on Friday. After lengthy negotiations, the agency voted to treat the service, known as digital subscriber line (DSL) broadband, as an "information service" which shields it from many traditional telephone regulations, such as requirements to lease network access to competitors at regulated rates. The FCC has already made a similar designation for broadband service offered by cable companies."

Source: Reuters

July 2005

07-19-05
UK Now Really is a Broadband Nation - More of Us Use Fat Pipe than Dial-Up

"The number of broadband internet connections in the UK has finally outstripped dial-up, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS)."

Source: Silicon
Author: Jo Best

07-13-05
ADSL Surpasses Cable for First Time in Portugal

"ADSL has surpassed for the first time cable modem access on the Portugese broadband market, representing 52 percent of total internet accesses in Portugal, according to the country's telecom regulator ANACOM."

Source: Telecompaper

"Londoners could soon see broadband speeds triple to 24Mbps, as a recently launched company has promised to deliver fast ADSL2+ internet services. Be, a new internet service providers, said the service will dwarf current top speeds of 8Mpbs, and will be available in the capital in three months' time. The company is currently keeping its pricing strategy a secret but said the service, which works over local loop unbundling, will be 'competitive'.

Source: Silicon
Author: Dan Ilett

June 2005

06-23-05
DSL Maintains Majority Share of Broadband Lines

"DSL operators are still dominating the world broadband market with 107m out of the 164m broadband subscribers opting for DSL, giving it a 65% market share. Cable modem broadband subscribers are only higher in the North American market, where both USA and Canada have cable broadband shares of 59% and 52% respectively.

In other major broadband markets, DSL clearly dominates, especially in Western Europe where DSL lines in France, Germany, UK and Italy are at least 70% of the total market and in Germany's case form almost 100% of national broadband lines."

Source: Point Topic

06-17-05
Networking this Week: Next-Generation DSL - Super High Speed and HDTV-Ready

"If you think DSL is yesterday's technology, think again. As the news shows this week, this isn't your father's DSL. The big DSL news was the world's first demonstration of delivering a live HDTV broadcast over a DSL network. Broadcom's IPTV set-top box reference design platform was used by France Telecom to broadcast the French Open Tennis Tournament at Roland Garros Stadium in France on June 2, 2005."

Source: networking pipeline
Author: Preston Gralla

06-10-05
Broadband Wagon

"Broadband technology is fast becoming a raging fashion in most of Asia - and guess what - the Philippines is not into it, at least not yet."

Source: The Manila Bulletin Online (UK)

May 2005

05-26-05
Netherlands to Remain Europe's Broadband Leader in 2010 - Report

"With almost one-third of households in the Netherlands and Belgium connected to the internet via broadband at the end of 2004, the Low Countries are Europe's broadband leaders, but there are differences in PC and online penetration, market competitiveness, and competitive focus. A report from Forrester Research predicts a two-speed futur for both countries."

By John Tilak
Source: DMeurope

05-25-05
Korea Stays Top Broadband Country, Netherlands is 2nd

"Broadband markets continued their rapid growth in the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries during 2004, ending the year with 118 million. This is a growth of 41 percent of 34.1 million net additions. The OECD broadband penetration rate reached 10.2 subscribers per 100 inhabitants in 2004, up from 7.3 subscribers per 100 inhabitants in December 2003. Korea leads the OECD in broadband penetration with 24.9 subscribers per 100 inhabitants. The Netherlands moved into second place with a penetration rate of 19.0 subscribers per 100 inhabitants, followed closely by Denmark, Iceland, and Canada.

Source: Telecom Paper (Netherlands)

05-23-05
Networked Broadband Households to Reach 160m in 2010 - Report

"Global home network adoption is expected to grow from 35m in 2004 to more than 162m in 2010, according to a report from market research firm Diffusion Group. This growth will be fuelled in large part by broadband service providers who are beginning to push combined modem/networking solutions known as residential gateways (RGWs) into the homes of new broadband subscribers."

Source: DMeurope
By John Tilak

April 2005

04-2005
Fibre Networks Deliver as DSL Demand Soars

"More and more homes and businesses are signing up to Digital Subscriber Line broadband services. At the same time, says the DSL Forum's David Greggain's, Europe's service providers must ensure that their optical backhaul networks can support robust access connectivity and track rising bandwidth demands."

Source: Fibre Systems Europe
By David Greggains, DSL Forum Chief Operating Officer

04-26-05
Broadband Reveals Digital Divide

"Constituencies with the highest and lowest take-up of broadband (in the UK) are in Wales reveals research. Cardiff Central tops the list of most connected constituences with almost 40% of homes having fast net access, finds net specialist Point Topic."

Source: BBC News Online (UK)

04-15-05
Net Lapses Frustrate Comcast Users

"Surfing the Web became an impossibility at times this week for some customers of Comcast's high-speed internet service in Denver and around the nation. Townsend and others said they are considering switching to DSL service, or high-speed internet connections over their telephone line."

Source: Denver Post
By Kimberly S. Johnson

04-13-05
New Rules for ADSL2

“The Australian telecommunications industry has passed a key regulatory milestone on the road to introducing next generation high-speed ADSL services. The Australian Communications Industry Forum (ACIF) has updated its industry code for deploying broadband services, clearing a path for the introduction of ADSL2 and ADSL2+.”

Source: Australian IT (Australia)
By Andrew Colley

04-13-05
DSL, Cable Modem Market to Reach USA 2 bln by 2009

"The battle for broadband access into the home continues to heat up as higher bandwidth chip technology innovations ultimately enable service providers to deliver 'triple-play' service plans."

Source: Telecom Paper (Netherlands)

"Walt Disney famously said it all started with a mouse. But even he didn't foresee Playhouse Disney Preschool Time Online, a broadband service that lets preschool children learn and play using the computer kind of mouse.

"What really is allowing this product to go broad is the increased penetration of broadband," Goldstein said. "It's very real, it's very exciting, and it's a wonderful canvas for things we've always wanted to do."

Source: MSNBC (Reuters)

04-11-05
Numbers Crunched

"13.7 million - Current number of DSL subscribers in U.S."

Source: Telephony Magazine

04-07-05
Use de DSL Sigue Creciendo en la Region

Source: Tele-Semana (Latin America)
By Rafael Junquera

04-04-05
China could overtake U.S. in broadband access this year

"China will have more broadband Internet access subscribers than the U.S. by the end of the year, if the number of subscribers to broadband Internet access services continues to grow at current rates...At the end of December, the U.S. had 33.9 million broadband subscribers, and China 25.8 million, according to Point Topic."

Source: InfoWorld
By Peter Sayer (IDG News Service)

04-2005
Cover Story: 10 White-Hot Technologies>Copper Pair Bonding: Bigger Bandwidth

"During the early days of DSL, the saying "turning copper into gold" was popular. Since then, the notion of turning copper into gold has gone through multiple iterations to increase the rate and reach of DSL. While not entirely a new concept, one area that's gaining momentum is multipair copper bonding."

Source: Telecommunications Magazine
By Sean Buckley

03-2005
DSL Forum Launches the "DSL Anywhere" Marketing Report to Maximize Customer Reach, Increase Bandwidth, and Drive Profit

"DSL Anywhere, a marketing report produced by the DSL Forum, has been launched to identify technical options for delivering the benefits of broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) services to everyone, regardless of where they live or work. Customer reach well beyond historic limits, delivering greater bit rates, service quality and flexibility for bandwidth hungry applications are all now possible over the ubiquitous telephone networks around the world."

Source: InterComms
By Tom Starr, DSL Forum Vice President and Chairman Emeritus

03-28-05
FCC Says 'No' To Naked DSL

"As expected, the Federal Communications Commission announced it had upheld a request by BellSouth to prevent state regulators from forcing the telephone company to sell its DSL service "naked"--or without an accompanying voice service.

"In a ruling that included partial dissents by two commissioners, the FCC said that, in its 1999 Line Sharing Order and in two subsequent Triennial Review Orders, the commission had expressly stated that incumbents do not have to unbundle the low-frequency portion of an unbundled loop as a separate service from the high-frequency portion on which DSL is provided. State rules requiring BellSouth to provide naked DSL violate those rulings, the commission said."

Source: Telephony Magazine
By Carol Wilson

03-28-05
DSL By the Numbers

"Despite a concerted effort by the European Union to promote broadband competition among DSL and cable modem providers, DSL continued to dominate as the technology of choice across the continent."

Source: Telephony Magazine
By Vince Vittore

"Global DSL subscribers sailed past the 100 million mark in February 2005, according to the latest data produced for the DSL Forum by industry analyst Point Topic."

Source: TMC VolP Blog
By Rich Tehrani

03-14-05
A Modest Proposal

"Any technology worth its salt has its own forum or consortia. There's the DSL Forum...The U.S. telecom industry needs a forum that can apply this cooperative technique to create the new regulatory framework so badly needed."

Source: Telephony Magazine
By Carol Wilson

03-04-05
Global Broadband Boom Now Unstoppable

"The global broadband boom is now unstoppable as worldwide sales revenues for broadband modems, routers and gateway rocket, industry analysts said today."

Source: Vnunet (international)
By Robert Jacques

"A new survey this week has revealed that 81 percent of ADSL subscribers are interested in receiving so-called triple play services."

Source: Telecom TV
By Guy Daniels

03-02-05
Dial-up On Endangered Species List: Study

“The number of broadband subscribers worldwide has just passed 150 million mark, according to IMS Research. This represents an increase of 51 million since the beginning of 2004. IMS Research is forecasting that the number of broadband subscribers will surpass 400 million during 2009. DSL continues to put distance between itself and cable as the most popular broadband technology, with total DSL subscribers passing the 100 million mark in early 2005.”

Author: Jack Kapica
Source: Globe and Mail

03-01-05
Wi-Fi in the House

“Although it would seem that the DSL Forum might be pushing HPNA, given that both DSL and HPNA use existing telephone wiring, the DSL Forum is not backing any particular home network technology. Instead, the forum has an initiative called “DSL Home” that includes automatic service configuration for service providers on the WAN side and universal plug-and-play capability for multiple technologies on the LAN side, explains George Dobrowski, who is on the DSL Forum’s board of directors and works for Conexant Systems Inc. as the director of technology and product planning.

“We picked protocols so you can use Wi-Fi, HomePlug, HPNA, Ethernet — which is on all routers — a PCI or a USB interface,” Dobrowski says. “DSL Home supports all that. MoCA is a brand new thing, but that also could be supported by the DSL Home system, which has mechanisms to support various LAN-side interfaces.”

Author: Paula Bernier
Source: xchange Magazine

February 2005

02-28-05
It’s a Tenant’s Market as Apartment Vacancies Rise
“The Legacy Management Group, Pleasant Prairie, is touting free high-speed Internet service in its 216-unit Riverwood Estates complex in Oak Creek. Rents for one- and two-bedroom apartments at Riverwood range from $715 to $1,000.

Legacy is spending up to $200 per apartment at Riverwood to install a DSL line from SBC-Wisconsin. The property management company is then spending $5 a month per apartment to maintain the high-speed Internet service.”

Author: Pete Millard
Source: The Business Journal Serving Greater Milwaukee

02-24-05
France Telecom Launches DSL Licensing Programme

"France Telecom today announced a new licensing programme for digital subscriber line (DSL) transmission technologies using discrete multi-tone modulation."

Source: DMeurope (international), By Leigh Phillips

02/22/04
UK Tops G7 Broadband League

"The UK has overtaken the other G7 nations in terms of the availability of broadband infrastructure, a report claimed on Monday."

Source: Silicon (international), By Dan Ilett

02-22-05
RBOCs Add More Than 1 Million DSL Subs. in Q4 04
“During Q4 04, the four regional Bell operating companies added a total of 1,036K DSL customers, up 35% (270K) from their combined Q4 03 gain of 766K. On a sequential basis, DSL unit growth was up 9.4% (89K) from third quarter’s 947K units. This marked the RBOCs’ second-strongest-ever quarter in terms of DSL unit growth, which reached a peak of 1,054K units in Q1 04.”

Author: Mitchell Shapiro
Source: Broadband Daily

"Broadband - high-speed Internet access such as cable and DSL that allows downloading of streaming video and music media - was greeted with skepticism when it arrived."

Source: Columbus Business First, By Steve Davolt

02/08/05
DSL Subscriptions Exceed Cable Subscriptions

“New York, NY-based ABI Research's latest global survey of broadband subscribers shows DSL subscriptions quickly outstripping cable subscriptions in all regions of the world except North America.”

Source: Telecom Paper (Netherlands)

By Carol Wilson

Source: Telephony Magazine

01/25/05
Small Businesses Embrace DSL Broadband

"The latest ComReg survey shows that DSL and e-commerce have been widely adopted by small businesses."

Source: RTE Business (Ireland)

01/20/05
Western European Broadband Penetration to Reach 41% in 2010

“Western European residential broadband uptake has exploded in the past two years: adoption grew 81% in 2003 and continued to surge in 2004, clocking 28% growth in the first six months alone. By 2010, European broadband penetration will reach 41% (72 million households), which equals 67% of those online that year.”

Source: Telecom Paper (Netherlands)

01-13-05
DSL Service Management
"DSL services are beginning to move away from single, best-effort service to the provision of multiple services that have bandwidth and QOS (quality of service) demands. This is making service management a key business process, as these services need end-to-end monitoring to ensure they remain highly profitable.”

Author: Graham Beniston
Source: Light Reading

01-03-05
Battle for the Digital Home Just Beginning
“"The telcos are in a very unique position--they have nothing to lose," Schadler commented. "They are so unlike the cable providers, who have everything to lose. You don’t normally think of the telcos as being at the forefront of device innovation. But they are taking considerably more risks." …The next challenge for the telcos will be developing standard middleware that can enable Internet Protocol-based TV to be delivered over fiber and fiber/DSL networks, Schadler said.”

Author: Carol Wilson
Source: Telephony Magazine

12-21-2004
Broadband Use Surpasses Dial-Up in U.S.
“As prices dropped over the past year, broadband use at home has surpassed that of dial-up in the United States, reaching 53 percent of residential Web users in October, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.”

Author: Anick Jesdanun
Source: Associated Press

12-20-2004
Summing Up 2004
“Year end is a good time to look back on what has happened and forward to what is coming. 2004 saw many of the trends and directions we have been covering moving toward the mainstream. A quick list includes: Consumer broadband: projected to have more than 150 million residential subscribers worldwide by year end ... ”

Authors: Sandy Teger and Dave Waks
Source: Broadband Home Central

12-10-2004
Number of DSL Connections Soars
“The supremacy of cable as a delivery mechanism for high-speed Internet service is a "myth," says a consortium of cable's major competitors using the digital subscriber line (DSL) system.

The Americans have shown a reluctance to switch from cable, says the Orlando-based DSL Forum, but DSL deployment is high on a global scale.

Around the world, 85.3 million people have subscribed to DSL, adding new subscribers at a rate of about half a million every week.”

Authors: Jack Kapica
Source: The Globe and Mail

12-06-2004
Study: VDSL to grow as ADSL stalls
“Last year, ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) dominated the market for DSL semiconductors with 90 percent market share around the globe. But as competition between broadband services heats up, especially in countries such as South Korea and Japan, many providers are choosing to upgrade their systems with the speedier VDSL. This transition means VDSL (Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line) will outpace ASDL in terms of growth, according to a study by market researcher In-Stat/MDR.”

Authors: Jim Hu
Source: CNET

November 2004

11-22-04
Internet Tax-Ban Extension Sent to Bush's Desk
"Congress 11/19 sent legislation to the president's desk that would extend an Internet access tax moratorium for three years, after a year-long battle to reinstate the now-expired ban...The bill also protects existing state taxes on DSL service for two years, and contains a carve-out for telephone calls made over the Internet."

Author: Alison Bennett
Source: Broadband Daily

11-22-04
High Speed Net Use Doubles, Survey Finds
"The number of Americans using fast Internet connections doubled from 2001 through late 2003, still below some expectations and especially low among minority groups and people in rural areas, according to a report by the Bush administration."

Author: Ted Bridis
Source: Associated Press

11-04-04
Telecom Act’s Successes May Start Unraveling
"Two recent Federal Communications Commission decisions underscore what appears to be a trend by the Bush Administration to deconstruct what is perhaps the only government policy to successfully rely on market forces to protect consumers while transitioning to deregulation -- the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996."

Author: Tom Wright
Source: Jacksonville Business Journal

11-01-04
Computers, the Internet and Working at Home
"Today, thanks to computers, broadband technology with DSL (the way data is speedily transferred over ordinary copper telephone lines), wireless zones, cell phones, instant messaging, and new software, more and more employees can -- and do -- telecommute, or telework, from home at least part of the time. For some, particularly disabled persons with mobility problems, teleworking offers employment opportunities they might otherwise never have."

Author: Dale English
Source: Business First of Buffalo

11-2004
Copper Bonding, Other Innovations Expedite Telco's Expansion of DSL
"Recent tech advances have considerably improved telcos' ability to compete more effectively with cable in terms of both extending the reach and the performance of their broadband infrastructures...Based on where things stand with telco plans and vendor implementation of the standard at the chip level, it looks like the big push to commercial rollout of 15 mbps and higher over ADSL2+ could be underway by the second half of next year."

Author: Fred Dawson
Source: ScreenPlays

October 2004

10-30-04
Brazilians Hot For Broadband
"Brazilian phone companies are betting on strong demand for high-speed internet access in the next few years and, in an effort to offset the country's shrinking fixed-line market, are rushing into the expected broadband boom"

Source: Wired

10-15-04
Broadband: More Power to You
"Federal regulators on Thursday adopted rules aimed at tempting electric utilities to offer broadband services -- a move officials hope will someday enable U.S. consumers to jack in to the web from virtually any power outlet.... It's all part of an effort to encourage wider adoption of high-speed services in the United States, which now ranks 11th among countries in broadband penetration. Right now, cable modem and digital subscriber line, or DSL, services hold a virtual duopoly over wired broadband services to the home."

Author: Michael Grebb
Source: Wired

10-12-04
Dude, Where's my DSL?
"DSL is on a roll," says DSL Forum president Tom Starr. "China is red hot. In the United States, we're still in the early stages of the game. Starr cites research from Point Topic Ltd. which says that DSL's global market share of broadband is picking up, and it hit 64 percent in the second quarter of 2004."

Author: R. Scott Raynovich
Source: Light Reading

10-04
Seven Reasons We Love DSL
"And to think, a few short years ago, many heard the bell tolling for DSL. Well, look at it now: According to Q2 figures from research firm Point Topic, more than 78 million households worldwide subscribe to DSL services. Over the next several pages, Telecommunications® shows seven reasons DSL is in it for the long haul."

Author: Sean Buckley/Jim Barthold/Sue O'Keefe
Source: Telecommunications Magazine

September 2004

09-28-04
Kerry vs. Bush -- How do they differ on telecom issues?
"Neither candidate supports a return to the old days of a regulated monopoly, but their views of what constitutes a “level playing field” are different indeed. In the view of the current Republican-led FCC, network owners have property rights that should be preserved or, in the case of the long-regulated telecom industry, enhanced. They view regulation in general as bad, even if incumbent players end up with the lions’ share of the business and competitors are squeezed out. Such monopolies are seen as eventually self-defeating; if they do not do a good job, then, over decades, new technology will ease them out.

The opposing view, based on the behavior of the last Democratic-led FCC, is that competition must be nurtured, even if it means imposing stricter regulation on incumbents until their market power is sapped. And so the Democrats are likely to favor stricter enforcement of the pro-competition portions of the Telecom Act, while Republican FCC chairman Michael Powell has called for its abolition."

Author: Fred R. Goldstein, Ionary Consulting
Source: Telecom Flash

09-27-04
DSL Forum – Targets Ubiquitous Broadband, CPE Certification
"As of June 30, DSL providers accounted for 78 million broadband subscribers worldwide, a significant jump from the 46.7 million reported 12 months ago."It's right on what we were expecting," Tom Starr, president of the DSL Forum and a senior member-technical staff for SBC Communications, said during a press conference. “Over the past 12 months, we're looking at 48% growth, and I'm very happy with that."

Author: Vince Vittore
Source: Telephony Magazine

09-22-04
EU Surpasses Asia Pacific in DSL Penetration - Download PDF
"The European Union (EU) has narrowly surpassed Asia Pacific as the number one market for DSL, with a subscriber count totaling more than 23 mil. subscribers—11 mil. of which have signed on in the last 12 months, The DSL Forum is announcing today. In the U.S., DSL gained a 3% increase in market share with nearly 4 mil. subs, while in Canada DSL subscribers now account for 48% of that country’s total broadband market, according to industry consortium’s latest market research.

For your typical user experience with broadband access, if you did a blind human factors study, I suspect you’d find most customers really couldn’t tell the difference [in DSL speeds v. cable speeds],” Starr said. But he added that speed will become more important in the long term. "

Author: Scott Sleek
Source: Broadband Daily

09-17-04
Global Broadband Tops 123M
"DSL continues to account for the majority of the 123 million total subscriptions. In the States, San Diego maintains its top-speed lead, with roughly 70 percent if its Internet users connecting via broadband. Nielsen//NetRatings attributes high-incomes and large professional workforces to the high penetration among U.S. coastal cities."

Author: Robyn Greenspan
Source: ClickZ Network

09-15-04
ADSL Forum -- New Specs to Beat Cable
"DSL Forum certainly appears to be providing its members with the framework for DSL to become a formidable competitor to cable."

Author: Sandy Teger and Dave Waks
Source: Broadband Home Central

August 2004

08-12-04
A Dead Heat in the Race for Broadband Gains - Download PDF
"Cable operators officially lost their edge in gaining new broadband subs. during Q2 04, with only half of the net new high-speed customers opting for cable modems. The remaining half chose DSL, a 50/50 split that follows a quarter when cable accounted for 53% of all new high-speed customers. During Q2 03, cable had an even bigger lead, accounting for almost two-thirds of all new high-speed customers."

Author: Scott Sleek
Source: Broadband Daily

08-04
Can DSL Do HDTV?
"Despite those questions, there’s a “growing interest” among the telcos to provide HDTV over DSL, according to Tom Starr, president and chairman of the DSL Forum board of directors, and a principal member of the SBC Communications technical staff."

Author: Jeff Baumgartner
Source: CED Magazine

July 2004

07-15-04
DSL Has Record Growth Spurt
"Approximately three-quarters of customers nationwide have DSL available in their area and one-quarter are still untapped," said Starr, predicting availability gains over the next year or so.

Coupled with added availability, Starr cites price reductions and service features as key drivers for continued U.S. adoption. "The next thing that will fuel growth will be support for a richer set of applications for customers. DSL service providers have made home networking easy and they took the lead with helping the customer," said Starr."

Author: Robyn Greenspan
Source: ClickZ Network Stats

07-14-04
Consumer Group Pleas for Open Architecture Principles - Download PDF
"The Washington, D.C.-based Consumer Federation of America (CFA) released a white paper 7/13 urging the FCC not to abandon the principles of nondiscriminatory access and open architecture in communications networks.

...For example, the commission is considering two proceedings in tandem that would affect cable-modem and DSL service. The proceedings are temporarily on hold because of an adverse decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit."

Author: Scott Sleek
Source: Broadband Daily

07-08-04
I Hate To IP On Your Parade
"On the twisted pair side of things, the DSL Forum seems to be stepping up to the plate regarding DSL compatibility and home networking side of things. At Supercomm, the DSL Forum booth had an impressive display of interoperable products..."

Author: Ken Pyle
Source: The Independent Telco Local Content Workshop

07-02-04
Latin America DSL Market to Grow 17 Percent
"Despite economic problems in the region, DSL in Latin America will continue to grow at an annual growth rate of 17 percent for the consumer and SOHO markets through the year 2009, according to market research firm Probe Group."

Source: Electronic News

June 2004

06-28-04
Spending Buoys Telecom Show
"Supercomm 2004 last week was all about new services - how to create them, provision them and deliver them to customers... The DSL Forum's demo highlighted easily configured home networks that support these."

Author: Tim Greene
Source: Network World

06-24-04
DSL Revival
"I think the big winner here isn't PON or even fiber optic doodads. It's DSL, as well as the packet-switching, routing, and aggregation gear - such as the broadband remote access server (B-RAS) - that's needed to deploy and manage DSL services such as the broadband remote access server (B-RAS) - that's needed to deploy and manage DSL services."

Author: R. Scott Raynovich
Source: Light Reading

06-24-04
DSL Forum Moves Ahead
"The DSL Forum yesterday unveiled three more TRs (Technical Reports) that further enhance DSL’s capabilities and bring it closer to a retail-consumer model that will compete with the still-dominant cable modem in the North American marketplace. Michael Brusca, the Forum’s strategy vice president, said the three TRs were all intended to give consumers out-of-the-box performance with DSL modems and their networked peripherals and "raise the bar of performance" of network components."

Author: Jim Barthold
Source: TelecomFlash

06-24-04
DSL Forum’s Determination
"DSL Forum leaders were also keen to underline the release of a trio of new standards under the DSLHome™ label to cover easier customer equipment configuration, remote service management, and a common set of capabilities across ADSL Modem equipment."

Author: Doug Mohney
Source: VON Magazine

06-24-04
DSL Forum Publishes Reports
"DSL Forum announces a new suite of Technical Reports (TRs) that further enhance digital subscriber line's (DSL's) interface to a variety of devices that meet the changing needs of the new online home."

Source: Light Reading

06-23-04
Catching Customers With Home Nets, Part 2
"The DSL Forum, the dominant trade and technical consortium, recently announced the formation of DSLHome™. DSLHome proposes to do much of what CableHome has done within CableLabs: Define technical requirements for DSL-connected home networks and gateways, as well as a standard for back-end management. Ultimately, the group’s work should improve industry cooperation and standardization."

Author: Mike Wolf
Source: Network World

06-23-04
Broadband DSL Achieves Record-Breaking Growth
"The number of broadband DSL subscribers in the U.S. jumped 13% in the first quarter of 2004, growing by 1.2 million customers to a new high of 10.6 million, according to figures released earlier this month by the DSL Forum."

Author: Carolyn Duffy MarsanAuthorf
Source: Network World

06-23-04
DSL Forum Releases DSLHome™ Specs
"The DSL Forum unveiled a suite of technical reports at SUPERCOMM that will help accelerate the forum's DSLHome initiative. Launched last year, the DSLHome initiative was established to define specifications and security standards for establishing home networks that distribute DSL pipes around the home."

Author: Rob Keenan
Source: CommsDesign

06-23-04
SUPERCOMM Highlights “International industry consortium The DSL Forum launched the DSLHome SUPERDemo Roadshow showing the latest home-networking gateways and home and office applications. The demo includes VOD, streaming video, IP telephony, online gaming and video conferencing. In addition, the forum released a new suite of specifications aimed at enhancing the interface between DSL and the growing array of home devices. The new technical reports are designed to facilitate easier consumer self-installation and management, create a larger body of DSL modems for consumers to choose from, and enable a variety of service offerings including virus protection, firewall services, anti-spam and parental controls.”

Author: Scott Sleek
Source: Broadband Daily

06-17-04
DSL, Cable Race Intensifies Download PDF
"…since Q1 03, cable’s share of the high-speed market has been dwindling from its formerly unvarying 66%. From Q1 03 to Q1 04, cable’s slice of the total broadband pie dipped from 65.8% to 63.6%, a sign that the round of DSL price cuts in mid-2003 are generating growth momentum for the phone companies."

Author: Scott Sleek
Source: Broadband Daily

06-11-04
Stylish Linux-Based Residential Gateway Supports VoIP
"IAccording to i3, the DSL Forum estimated in 2003 that there were 64 million DSL subscribers, while In-Stat/MDR put the number of cable modem users at 34 million."

Source: LinuxDevices.com

06-10-04
North America’s Telecom Uniqueness
"In the run up to this fall’s elections and beyond into the rewrite of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the public is going to get an earful on high-speed broadband and telecommunications regulation. When the debates start, it would be wise to remember that North America isn’t like anywhere else."

Author: Doug Mohney
Source: VON Magazine

06-10-04
Worldwide DSL Subscribers Soar In Q1
"New data from the DSL Forum and research firm Point Topic show that the number of worldwide DSL subscribers reached 73.4 million at the end of March."

Author: Kevin Fitchard
Source: Telephony Online

06-09-04
SL Sector Surpasses 70Millions Subscribers
"The DSL Forum unveiled a suite of technical reports at SUPERCOMM that will help accelerate the forum's DSLHome initiative. Launched last year, the DSLHome initiative was established to define specifications and security standards for establishing home networks that distribute DSL pipes around the home."

Author: Rob Keenan
Source: CommsDesign

06-04-04
Setting Up Home Office Requires the Right Tools
"This leads us to a high-speed Internet connection, which you'll need to send and receive those bandwidth-hogging presentation files and to conduct research at lightning speed."

Author: Dave Hatter
Source: Business Courier

06-01-04
ADSL: Coming to a Store Near You
“A follow-up to the DSL Forum’s ITU-T sanctioned TR-048 interoperability testing plan, TR-067 has unprecedented input of the forum’s more than 200 members spanning the component, CPE vendor, service provider and testing communities….The DSL Forum plans the release of three additional technical reports supporting CPE uniformity as part of the DSL Home initiative.”

Author: Khali Henderson
Source: xchange Magazine

06-01-04
Home, Sweet (Networked) Home
“To be fair, several of the key industry associations driving this, such as the DSL Forum and the Digital Home Working Group, have been aggressively pushing interoperability up the industry agenda with some success….Without it, home networking is, at best, going to be incomplete, and at worst, commercially dead on its feet.”

Author: Stephen McClelland
Source: Telecommunications International Magazine

06-01-04
DSL: Teaching the Choir a New Song
“The technology has evolved, and the new architecture and new tools that play in the network make DSL a powerful tool and a powerful product for all these applications that people used to think DSL could never support,” she (Laurie Gonzalez, the DSL Forum’s marketing director) said. “As you walk through the booth, you’re going to get a real sense that DSL can support applications that only other broadband technologies were supposed to support.”

Author: Jim Barthold
Source: Telecommunications Magazine

06-01-04
Interoperability Efforts—A DSL Interoperability Program: Drivers and Benefits
"With 63.8 million DSL subscribers at year-end 2003, the industry is looking at the key next steps in DSL profitability and service provider success. One answer is fine-tuning the technology in terms of extending the interoperability criteria, enabling modem portability across networks, and broadening product choices and availability."

Author: Michael Brusca
Source: Outside Plant Magazine

06-01-04
The DSL Forum: Driving Technology Evolution in Today’s Global Economy
"Broadband Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) is expected to enjoy another great year of growth in 2004. If we stay on track, we will reach the major milestone of 100 million lines before the end of 2004. This growth follows on the heels of 2003, which demonstrated DSL expansion of nearly 80 percent globally, representing the telecom industry's strongest growth market segment. DSL is the world's leading broadband access technology. The DSL Forum, the nonprofit global industry consortium focused on developing the full potential of DSL, is actively engaged in tailoring DSL's continuing role as the best broadband choice to support all the exciting new applications and services going online everyday."

Author: Tom Starr
Source: Compact PCI-Systems Magazine May 2004

05-26-04
It’s What You Do With the Bits That Counts
"Mr. Starr represents one of the two major Internet delivery systems — the other being cable — but the philosophical approach of the DSL Forum also applies to every other method. Ask about the direction that research is heading at Cable Labs, DSL Forum's counterpart, and they will tell you the same thing.They all say that maturity in Internet delivery lies less in the speed of the connection and more in how intelligently the network is laid out."

Author: Jack Kapica
Source: Toronto Globe and Mail

05-24-04
ADSL New Spec Out
"The DSL Forum last week released a document defining specifications for asynchronous DSL equipment and service interoperability. Called Technical Report-067, the document specifies ADSL bit-rate and distance requirements that reflect the recent improvements in ADSL modem performance, which are now capable of 3M bit/sec and higher speeds."

Author: Jim Duffy
Source: Network World

05-21-04
More Companies Offer Telework As A Cost-Saving Option
"There are too many positive factors for this trend not to continue," said Bob Smith, executive director of the nonprofit International Telework Association and Council (ITAC)...The 2003 American Interactive Consumer Survey, the most recent study from ITAC and the Dieringer Research Group, found the number of employed Americans who work from home during business hours at least one day per month grew nearly 40 percent from 2001 to 2003. The study counted 11.6 million teleworkers in 1997, 14.4 million in 1999, 16.8 million in 2001 and 23.5 million in 2003. The study showed that 42 percent of teleworkers work from home at least one day per week, and 22 percent of employees work at home daily or nearly every day."

Author: Mary K. Pratt
Source: Boston Business Journal

05-20-04
DSL Forum Sets Interoperability Test Plan
“With the release of its new “ADSL Interoperability Testing Plan,” under the guise of the TR (technical report)-067, the DSL Forum is setting a new bar for ADSL performance and reach. Building on the previous TR-048 testing specification, TR-067 defines testing using pass/fail criteria, testing laboratory requirements as well as the format for conducting all DSL testing with enhanced testing of upper-layer protocol functions and built-in modem diagnostics.”

Author: Sean Buckley
Source: Telecommunications Magazine

05-20-04
Hold on there, fiber fans. DSL’s not done yet.
“This week, the DSL Forum approved a new set of technical requirements that spell out the technical requirements for providing longer-reach DSL services. The newly approved document, TR-067, is titled "ADSL Interoperability Testing Plan," because it spells out how network and customer equipment is to be tested and evaluated in a market where customers get DSL at speeds of 3 Megabits per second and higher.”

Author: Carol Wilson
Source: Broadband Edge Newsletter

05-19-04
Broadband Adoption Urged
“FCC considers wireless, new applications, and other technology to promote high-speed Internet access across America. President George W. Bush has called for universal and affordable access to broadband Internet service by 2007. He contends the technology will enhance information flow and spark innovation.”

Author: Emily Kumler
Source: PC World (Medill News Service)

05-18-04
DSL Forum Launches Testing Plan
“A new technical report, (TR)-067 "ADSL Interoperability Testing Plan," has been approved by the DSL Forum, defining the technical criteria for asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) interoperability and providing the foundation for the DSL Forum's global Interoperability Programme in North America, Europe and Asia.”

Source: Light Reading

05-17-04
Feeling Right At Home: Business Owners Find Ways To Make Home Environment Work For Them
"The answer to your workplace malaise may be in starting a home-based business... "One thing I did do was install a DSL line, and I got a laptop," she said, because she wanted to be portable in her interactions with clients. Altogether, she said she spent about $3,000 on her equipment and office needs."

Author: Susan Gosselin
Source: Business First of Louisville

05-07-04
DSL Forum Near Update to Push Modems Toward Retail
"The DSL Forum in the next couple of weeks is expected to announce ratification of an update to the widely used TR48 testing document that is expected to continue DSL modems' slow migration to a retail environment... "It's not just interoperability, it also raises the bar on performance," Brusca said. "The whole industry converged on this test plan. The reason that whole industry bought into the test plan was because we all had something at stake."

Author: Vince Vittore
Source: Telephony Online Magazine

05-03-04
RBOCs Gird for Broadband Battleground
"After years of lagging behind the phenomenal growth curve of the cable industry in broadband data, DSL providers showed definitive signs of a major comeback in the first quarter."

Author: Kevin Fitchard
Source: Telephony Online Magazine

05-04
North America Jumps on DSL Bandwagon
"DSL Forum`s President Tom Starr commented, “In the last 3 months of 2003 more than 9 million additional customers signed up to this broadband technology - the strongest ever quarterly growth. 16.9% growth in the 4th quarter is a level of performance any other sector would have been glad to achieve in a full year. Our DSL market delivered that in just 3 months."

Author: DSL Forum and Point Topic
Source: Outside Plant Magazine

05-04
Giving DSL A Jolt
"Tom Starr, president and chairman of the DSL Forum, points out that worldwide, DSL already leads in broadband deployment­and with bundling and higher-speed offerings, there is good reason now to believe the U.S. telcos will gain ground."

Author: Karen Brown
Source: Communications Engineering and Design Magazine

April 2004

04-19-04
Communicating in the Broadband Era
"The broadband era is here. As the most readily available broadband technology for the mass market, Digital Subscriber Lines (DSLs) serve information and entertainment media as well as giving small businesses opportunities to compete economically. DSL technology also makes it possible for teleworkers to work from home regularly or occasionally, with all the same efficiencies of being in the office. Consumers worldwide have begun to see their broadband DSL connections as more than a luxury Internet access tool, or an aid for remote working, more than a 24-hour, always available information source."

Author: Michael Brusca
Source: Compact PCI-Systems Magazine

04-19-04
Affluent Americans Power Internet Growth, According to Nielsen//NetRatings: Upper Income Surfers Show Highest Concentration of Broadband Users
"Nielsen//NetRatings, the global standard for Internet audience measurement and analysis, shows that affluent Americans are the fastest growing income group online. Surfers with total household incomes of $150K and higher grew 31 percent year-over-year at home to nearly 7.9 million individuals. Those earning between $75K-100K increased to 26.4 million in March 2004, as compared to 20.7 million a year ago. Internet users with upper incomes ranging from $100K-150K rose 24 percent since last March."

Author: Kenneth Cassar
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings

04-18-04
Broadband Adoption at Home Grows Strongly in Winter Months of 2003 & 2004
"According to the February 2004 survey of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 55% of American Internet users have access to broadband either at home or in the workplace. Fully 39% of U.S. online users have broadband access at home."

Author: John B. Horrigan
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project

04-16-04
Moore's Lore: What's a Gateway?
"The DSLForum is voting on proposed standards right now, for what's in the gateway, the server it connects to, and the way that server connects. But not every gateway will work on every DSL network. Maybe phone companies could put a range of gateways on offer, at a range of prices, ranging from free to a few hundred dollars, with different capabilities -- some handling video, others focusing on punching through walls, still others basic units for home networking."

Author: Dana Blankenhorn
Source: Corante Tech News

04-07-04
The Fat of the Broadband
"The past few years have been lean times for equipment vendors. Now, it seems, the opportunity to put on a little fat on may have returned. "Broadband DSL subscription will grow at a compound annual rate of 30 percent and eclipse 140 million user worldwide in 2007," according to recent research from The Yankee Group. In addition, users will, in Yankee's view, begin to subscribe to more premium services. At present, "only seven percent of Internet users in North America subscribe to one or more premium online services, such as tiered bandwidth."

Author: Ouida Taaffe
Source: Telecom Flash

04-05-04
Cable or Phone? Difference Can Be Taxing
"Taxes 18 states impose on high-speed Internet connections through phone digital subscriber lines, while not taxing same service through cable modem, have become issue in Senate debate on whether to extend tax moratorium on Internet services; Sen George Allen has strongly argued that state taxation of digital lines slows spread of high-speed broadband and unfairly distorts market; sponsors bill to ban taxes on all forms of Internet access; some lawmakers and state and local governments say such taxes are important revenue source."

Author: Matt Richtel
Source: The New York Times March 2004

03-31-04
The Web: A White House plan for broadband
"Tax policy is a major component of how we are going to get broadband pushed out across most areas of the country," Scott Mackey, formerly chief economist for the National Conference of State Legislators, told UPI. "The government's role here is to adopt policies that are pro-investment. That creates a climate that encourages investment."

Author: Gene J. Koprowski
Source: United Press International

03-26-04
Broadband Apps Will Need a Bigger Net
"With the Internet becoming faster and a growing diversity of devices connecting to it, the pressure is on to develop a new international Internet Protocol to handle the traffic growth...The responses submitted to NIST and NTIA cited the advent of broadband as a major reason why real estate is becoming so scarce-and why the move to the open IPv6 landscape is so urgent: The rise in DSL and cable connections, most of which are always-on connections."

Author: Scott Sleek
Source: Broadband Daily

03-24-04
DSL takes a bigger share of world broadband market
Point Topic's latest analysis of the world broadband market, shows the total number of broadband lines (provided by DSL, cable modems and other technologies) reached 100.8m at 31 December 2003, marking a 26.6% increase in the previous six months and 62.8% in the whole of 2003. At the end of 2002 there were about 62m broadband lines worldwide. Growth was particularly strong in the second half of 2003, where broadband service providers added a massive 21m lines.

Source: Point Topic

03-23-04
Study: Price Gives DSL an Edge in Broadband
"As more U.S. households unplug their dial-up Internet service for a speedier broadband connection, their choice of provider remains a question of price, according a new study. "Based on these responses, it appears DSL providers are hitting the vital price point," Forrester analyst Patrick Mahoney said in a statement."

Author: Jim Hu
Source: CNET/ZDNet

03-18-04
Three Out of Four Americans Have Access to the Internet, According to Nielsen//NetRatings: Online Population Surges Past 200 Million Mark for the First Time
"Nielsen//NetRatings, the global standard for Internet audience measurement and analysis, reports that nearly 75 percent or 204.3 million Americans have access to the Internet from home. In comparison, Internet access penetration hovered around 66 percent in February 2003, rising nine percentage points year-over-year."

Author: Kenneth Cassar
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings

03-18-04
As broadband usage grows, consumers spend more online, new study says
"As the number of broadband subscribers in the U.S. grew about 40% last year to 25 million, broadband users were also more likely than narrowband users to purchase consumer products, Leichtman Research Group Inc. says. The leading U.S. cable and DSL broadband providers, representing about 98% of the market, added 7.4 million high-speed Internet subscribers last year, Durham, NY-based Leichtman says."

Source: InternetRetailer.com

03-17-04
Development of xDSL in CEE region
According to Point Topic, Central and Eastern Europe now has half a million subscribers to DSL services. With a 267% growth last year, CEE was second only to South East Asia as the fastest growing DSL market regions.

Source: PMR Ltd (Poland)

03-16-04
China takes broadband crown from Japan
According to a report from industry organisation the DSL Forum, China is now top when it comes to DSL - outstripping the broadband-savvy Japanese to reach the top spot. In terms of subscriber numbers, China overtook Japan at the end of last year with nearly 11 million users, while Japan came a close second with 10.2 million, according to research conducted by analyst group Point Topic with the DSL Forum.

Source: Silicon.com (United Kingdom)

03-15-04
Broadband's bounty: AS HIGH-SPEED CONNECTIONS SPREAD, NEW CONTENT FLOWS
"A new study from market researcher comScore Networks shows that broadband penetration has reached an important milestone. For the first time, computer users with high-speed Internet access outnumber dial-up users in a major city -- San Diego. Other cities, including Boston, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, aren't far behind."

Author: Dawn C. Chmielewski
Source: SiliconValley.com

03-15-04
Rooms With a Connection: The Adam's Mark Hotel introduces high-speed Internet to rooms
"For a current example, look no further that the Adam's Mark Hotel in downtown Buffalo, which this week began installing facilities to provide hardwired DSL service in all of its 486 guest rooms and wireless Internet access (Wi-Fi) in common areas."

Author: Mark Webster
Source: Business First of Buffalo

03-10-04
Broadband Overtaking Dial-Up in Major Cities
"San Diego currently has the highest broadband penetration rate in the nation, with 52 percent of its residents connecting to the Internet using a high-speed service, according to online measurement firm ComScore Networks. Boston ranks second with an even split between broadband and narrowband customers. New York City is in third place with 49 percent."

Author: Jim Hu
Source: CNET

03-09-04
NZ lagging behind in broadband uptake
New statistics on fast internet takeup show New Zealand falling further behind Australia in the race to get broadband telecommunications. Both countries are laggards in broadband uptake compared to the powerhouses of South Korea, Taiwan and Japan, but growth figures from the DSL Forum show Australia is about to leave New Zealand in its wake.

Source: The New Zealand Herald

03-08-04
China takes the helm in worldwide DSL market China has edged out established markets like Japan and the United States to become the largest DSL broadband market in the world, according to a recent report by industry consortium the DSL Forum.

Source: Cnet Asia (Singapore)

03-08-04
Chip Sets Extend Fiber with Copper in Last Mile
"Demand for VDSL services and VDSL's role in last-mile connections are addressed in analyst reports by Aberdeen Group and The Confluence Research Group. The reports are available through the DSL Forum at www.dslforum.org/store.htm.."

Author: Robert Keenan
Source: CommsDesign.com/EE Times

03-08-04
"DSL Growth Heats Up, Cable Gains Soften Slightly"
"Incumbent telcos are gaining ground on cable operators in terms of high-speed Internet subscriptions according to our tally of Q4 03 subscriber counts among the top cable and phone companies."

Author: Scott Sleek
Source: Broadband Daily

03-05-04
UK joins broadband big league
The UK has entered the world's top ten countries for DSL broadband take-up, statistics revealed on Friday. Figures drawn up for the International DSL Forum show that the UK snatched tenth place, up for thirteenth last year. However, the country still lags behind EU competitors France and Germany.

Source: Business Link (UK)

03-05-04
World's DSL Subscribers Reach 63.8 Million, China Sees Big Gain: DSL Forum
DSL subscribers reached 63.8 million at the end of 2003 on a worldwide basis, up 28 million from a year earlier, according to the DSL Forum, an organization that promotes DSL technologies.

Source: NE Asia (Japan)

03-04-04
World DSL lines approach 64 millions in 2003
Point Topic's latest analysis of the World DSL market, produced in conjunction with the DSL Forum, shows that 2003 was an exceptional year for DSL growth.

Source: Tech Tribes (Switzerland)

03-02-04
DSL Subscriptions Reach 64M
"Almost 28 million more homes and businesses got wise to the benefits of broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) in 2003 by subscribing to an always available, high-speed connection over the telephone line."

Author: Ray Le Maistre
Source: Boardwatch

03-02-04
Broadband web access surges in Western Europe, study says
"29.2% of online households in Western Europe had broadband web access last year, but 60.1% will have broadband in 2007, eMarketer estimates.."

Author: Kurt Peters
Source: InternetRetailer.com

03-02-04
DSL Sector Adds 28 Million Subscribers in 2003
"The DSL sector added 28 million subscribers in 2003 to reach just under 64 million subscribers worldwide, according to report released Tuesday (March 2) by the DSL Forum."

Author: Robert Keenan
Source: CommsDesign.com

03-02-04
DSL Catches Global Attention
"Competition between cable companies and digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet providers kicked up another notch Tuesday with the DSL side claiming a more than 78 per cent growth in global subscriptions in late 2003."

Author: Jack Kapica
Source: The Globe and Mail

03-02-04
DSL Forum Update
"As the DSLHome™ Campaign turns up the heat this year, DSL Forum continues to look to key organizations such as CABA to collaborate on the development of intelligent home demand."

Author: Tom Starr
Source: CABA Quarterly February 2004

02-04
DSL: the 40 year 'interim' technology
Tom Starr, President of the international DSL Forum on why xDSL is no stopgap.

Source: Interaxion (UK)

02-27-04
CY03 Banner Year for DSL: 53 Million Ports Shipped, Worldwide Revenue Up 59%
"DSL had a banner year in 2003, as worldwide DSL ports from DSLAMs, NGDLCs, and BLCs grew 141% to 53.3 million with revenue increasing 59% to $5 billion from 2002, and DSL CPE units grew 51% to 19.7 million with revenue increasing 14% to $1.9 billion, according to Infonetics Research's DSL Aggregation Hardware and DSL CPE quarterly worldwide market share and forecast reports."

Author: Michael Howard/Richard Webb
Source: Infonetics Research

02-19-04
Britain's National Health Service to be the first major public sector user of Broadband
The Department of Health has awarded Broadband Network Contract to British Telecom Health Minister John Hutton, has today announced that BT has been awarded a contract to provide and manage a broadband network to link all NHS organisations in England.

Source: The Department of Health (UK)

02-18-04
Broadband Finally Taking Over
"More people around the world connect to the Internet via a broadband connection than by telephone dial-up, a new survey says."

Author: Jack Kapica
Source: The Globe and Mail

02-18-04
Bulldog planning 20Mbps broadband
Broadband Britain could be turned on its head later this year, if Bulldog's plan to offer a 20-megabit-per-second service comes to fruition. Bulldog Communications is planning to launch a broadband product this year that is several times faster than any existing services on offer in Britain.

Source: ZD Net UK
Author: Graeme Wearden

02-11-04
Poland expects number of broadband users to more than triple to 1.6 mln by 2006
Poland expects the number of broadband internet users to grow by almost three and half times to 1.6 mln in 2006 from current 461,000, Deputy Infrastructure Minister Wojciech Halka told reporters on Wednesday.

Source: Interfax (Europe)

02-10-04
UK Government urges better Broadband content
The DSL Forum provided the UK Parliament with factual input on current global market statistics and the work of members to drive the mass-market take-up of DSL. A parliamentary select committee report, 'UK Broadband Market', was published on 10 February 2004, citing the benefits of Broadband take-up to the UK economy, and urging better content as well as faster connections as key drivers in Broadband growth.

Source: BBC NEWS

02-06-04
Broadband in the Sky
"Beginning in April, a unit of Boeing called Connexion by Boeing will launch a service that brings broadband Internet access aboard certain flights with airlines like Lufthansa, Japan Airlines, British Airways and others..… But beyond simply offering passengers connectivity, he says airlines are interested in putting the Internet connection to work for other uses. "Say a passenger misses their connection. They can book a new reservation and print a new boarding pass on board," he says. "

Author: Arik Hesseldahl
Source: Forbes.com

02-06-04
Broadband prices to hold steady
The days of broadband bargains could be over, a study of the cost of high-speed net access suggests. A survey of broadband prices across the world by industry analysts Point Topic shows that costs have fallen over the past three years. But it found that prices have stabilised and there are unlikely to be further cuts in the near future.

Source: BBC News

02-03-04
Broadband Could Make Paid Sports Content More than a Fantasy
"Broadband will be among the most disruptive influences on sports online," said PaidContent.org's Ali via e-mail. "Either the leagues can capitalize on it, or will capitulate under the pressure. Too much control will mean fans will not be happy, and will take the matter into their own hands, through technology. I won't be surprised it these [peer-to-peer] networks start becoming full of game telecasts as well."

Author: Mark Glaser Source: USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review January 2004

01-04
20/20: Visions for 2004 and Beyond
"Broadband is our single biggest driver for organic revenue growth ahead of us," he says. "Our goals are nothing less than converting broadband into a truly mass market service among residential customers and into a must-have business tool for all of our SMB customers." Alierta predicts more than 6 million Telefonica Group DSL connections by 2006."

Author: Sue O'Keefe
Source: Telecommunications Magazine

01-29-04
Join the broadband revolution - Part 1
Join the broadband revolution - Part 2
A two-part consumer briefing on broadband

Source: Personal Computer World
Author Nigel Whitfield

01-29-04
Web of opportunity
The internet is a rich resource for SMEs looking to grow. Guy Clapperton reveals how to boost your business

Source: The Guardian (UK)

01-28-04
Broadband On the Rise
"In spite of tough times for the overall telecom economy over the past several years, broadband adoption and deployment continues to be a bright spot. Numbers from the DSL Forum also show strong broadband - and in particular DSL - growth worldwide."

Author: Jim Dukart
Source: SUPERCOMM2004.com Daily News

01-27-2004
Europeans Tug on Next-Gen B-RASs
"European carriers are issuing loads of requests for proposals, quotes, and information for the latest edge equipment as they deal with the massive uptake of broadband connections, according to equipment vendors."

Source: Boardwatch

01-26-04
Study shows broadband purchased most often on Tuesday
"Upgrading to broadband is a weekday activity, according to a new study by BuyTelco, an online broadband shopping forum. The study found that 20.2% of all new broadband customers purchase their service on Tuesdays.."

Author: Kevin Fitchard
Source: Telephony Online

01-21-04
NECA Study Shows 46% Increase in Number of Member Rural Telephone Companies Offering DSL Services
"At the time of the last AMS in 2001, 557 pool members provided DSL services. In the latest survey that number has jumped to 814, a 46% increase. In 2001, only 66 companies indicated that they planned to deploy DSL services in the succeeding two years. However, our survey results show that the actual number of companies that deployed DSL was 257, well above the projections."

Source: NECA

01-19-2004
BT offers SDSL broadband direct to small businesses
"Business Broadband Advanced will use SDSL technology to offer speedy uploads, creating a lower-cost alternative to leased lines."

Author: Matthew Broersma
Source: ZDNet UK

01-12-04
Broadband Gets A Popularity Boost
"More home users are accessing the Internet at high speeds. That's according to a recent study by Nielsen//NetRatings, which shows that the number of home Internet users connecting via broadband has increased by 27 percent in six months. The increase is largely due to price declines and the increased efforts by ISPs to promote their broadband services, Nielsen/NetRatings says. The Internet audience measurement and analysis group found that 49.5 million Americans, or 38 percent of all home Internet users, connected via broadband in November 2003, compared to 39 million in May 2003."

Author: Katie Hamm
Source: PC World/IDG News

01-12-2004
DSL's Focus on Price Could Boost Interest
"Where early-adopter consumers cared more about download speeds, those who are signing up now are more worried about their monthly bills. Cambridge, Mass.-based researchers Forrester Research believes this will weigh in DSL's favor going forward, since providers like Verizon and SBC/Yahoo! are selling themselves on price, where cable companies like Comcast are trying to increase downstream speeds to up to twice that of DSL."

Author: Jeff Bounds
Source: Dallas Business Journal

01-09-2004
Broadband Now in 49% of Online Homes Earning $75K+; Linked to Higher Levels of Internet Shopping
"High-speed Internet connections - essential for accessing a host of sophisticated online marketing vehicles, including high-quality video, audio and graphics - have become standard equipment in the wealthiest online homes; and broadband households are 50% more likely to be active online shoppers."

Author: David Tice
Source: Knowledge Networks/SRI

01-09-2004
Among Wealthy, Broadband Takes Off
"Nearly half of American households earning $75,000 or more now have high-speed Internet service, and broadband households are 50 percent more likely to be actively online shoppers, according to a new report. Knowledge Networks/The Home Technology Monitor conducted 1,526 interviews and found broadband access in wealthy households jumped 25 percent since last spring."

Source: Baltimore Business Journal

01-09-2004
Big Plans for Home Networks in US
"The NPD Group surveyed adults in the US for its "Bringing Home the Network" report and found that 28% currently have home network systems. Of those people, 33% say they would like to share personal media on their networks, whereas 40% of those who plan to install home networks over the coming year want to do the same. In fact, more respondents planning to install home networks within the coming year than those currently networked hope to use their networks for different media functions." (http://www.emarketer.com)."

Author: Cerelle Centeno
Source: eMarketer

01-08-2004
FIFTY MILLION INTERNET USERS CONNECT VIA BROADBAND, RISING 27-PERCENT DURING THE LAST SIX MONTHS, ACCORDING TO NIELSEN//NETRATINGS
"Nielsen//NetRatings, the global standard for Internet audience measurement and analysis, today reports that 49.5 million, or 38 percent of all home Internet users now connect to the Internet via broadband, the highest number to date. Broadband users grew 27 percent, adding more than 10 million to their ranks, during the six month period from May 2003 through November 2003. During the same six month period narrowband usage has remained flat at 69.6 million."

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings

01-08-2004
Survey Conducted by The NPD Group Examines The Future of Home Networking
"Consumers planning to create a home network are most interested in sharing digital entertainment content through the integration of PCs and related CE products according to a new survey conducted by The NPD Group. In addition, consumers are beginning to embrace home networks for security and for controlling appliances, creating "smart homes."

Author: NPD Public Relations
Source: The NPD Group

01-02-04
Broadband reaches 100m lines at end 2003 - The major trends in broadband's biggest year yet
"There are now more than 100m broadband lines worldwide. This conclusion is based on Point Topic's full analysis of the broadband statistics for end-September 2003. It includes all kinds of mass-market broadband services - whether over the telephone network (DSL), over cable TV networks (via cable modems) or over fibre-optic cables. Broadband reaches 100m lines at end-2003"

Source: Point Topic, UK

01-2004
It's a New Year for DSL Resale
"Central to this new beginning are the DSL Forum's new technical reports, TR-058 and TR-059. Working with carriers, service providers and equipment manufacturers, the Forum has outlined an end-to-end IP architecture with QoS capabilities for DSL... Research firm Atlantic-ACM says DSL uptake has a compound annual growth rate of 25.9 percent, as opposed to a cable modem CAGR of 19.5 percent. However, tackling the mass market has been tough for service providers."

Author: Tara Seals
Source: Phone+ Magazine

01-2004
Internet Access
"More credit unions would most likely use DSL if they could be assured of its reliability. DSL is quite affordable but currently lacks QoS (Quality of Service). That is about to change thanks to the DSL Forum and the backing of BellSouth, Verizon, and SBC, among others."

Author: Tom Wright
Source: Credit Union Tech-Talk