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Wireless Broadband Network Set to Launch Next Year

DTV Star — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:22:30 +0000

Wireless broadband network set to launch next year
U.S. consumers and businesses may get more options in wireless service starting next year, with the launch of a new wireless broadband network that aims to provide competition to the incumbent phone companies. Private-equity firm Harbinger Capital Partners on... United States - Harbinger Capital - Private equity - Wireless - Telephone company

Up to 24m in US Lack Access to Broadband

DTV Star — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:23:22 +0000

Up to 24m in US lack access to broadband
As many as 24 million U.S. citizens have no access to broadband Internet service and are unlikely to get the higher-speed connection any time soon, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said yesterday.

U.S. Said to Toughen Up Broadband Deployment Report

DTV Star — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:22:22 +0000

U.S. said to toughen up broadband deployment report
High-speed Internet providers are expected to get a subtle rebuke from U.S. regulators this week when a report omits language that has previously said they are rolling out broadband to all areas in a "reasonable and timely fashion."

U.S. Gov't Urged to Subsidize Broadband Internet Access to Low Income Families

DTV Star — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:25:17 +0000

U.S. gov't urged to subsidize broadband Internet access to low income families
America is suffering from a " digital divide" with many Americans either can not afford high speed Internet or without service, and government subsidies are urged to help those low income families get on line.

A Practical U.S. Strategy for High Definition Television: A

DTV Star — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:22:39 +0000

A practical U.S. strategy for high definition television: A study of HDTV systems (K.I.P. studies)

Tags: K.I.P, hdtv systems, Definition, high definition television, strategy

U.S. to Announce $795 Million in New Broadband Subsidies

DTV Star — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:22:38 +0000

U.S. to announce $795 million in new broadband subsidies
IDG News Service - U.S. President Barack Obama's administration will announce nearly US$795 million in grants and loans for broadband deployment projects across the nation on Friday, officials with two federal agencies said.

The 2009-2014 Outlook for Broadband Internet Access in India

DTV Star — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:22:36 +0000

This econometric study covers the latent demand outlook for broadband Internet access across the states, union territories and cities of India. Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across over 5,100 cities in India. For each city in question, the percent share the city is of it's state or union territory and of India as a whole is reported. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city vis-a-vis others. This statistical approach can prove very useful to distribution and/or sales force strategies. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each state or union territory and city, latent demand estimates are created for broadband Internet access. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.

Tags: demand estimates, latent demand, Demand, U.S., P.I.E

Education, Training Key to Widespread Broadband Adoption

DTV Star — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:23:27 +0000

Education, training key to widespread broadband adoption
IDG News Service - The U.S. needs local education and training programs and better computer reuse programs to overcome a large broadband adoption gap, speakers at a broadband adoption forum said Tuesday.

The 2009-2014 Outlook for Broadband Internet Access in Japan

DTV Star — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:22:51 +0000

This econometric study covers the latent demand outlook for broadband Internet access across the prefectures and cities of Japan. Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 1,000 cities in Japan. For each city in question, the percent share the city is of it's prefecture and of Japan is reported. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city vis-a-vis others. This statistical approach can prove very useful to distribution and/or sales force strategies. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each prefecture and city, latent demand estimates are created for broadband Internet access. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.

This study does not report actual sales data (which are simply unavailable, in a comparable or consistent manner in virtually all of the cities in Japan). This study gives, however, my estimates for the latent demand, or the P.I.E., for broadband Internet access in Japan. It also shows how the P.I.E. is divided and concentrated across the cities and regional markets of Japan. For each prefecture, I also show my estimates of how the P.I.E. grows over time. In order to make these estimates, a multi-stage methodology was employed that is often taught in courses on strategic planning at graduate schools of business.

Tags: P.I.E, Japan, U.S., latent, Demand

The 2009-2014 Outlook for Broadband Internet Access in The

DTV Star — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 05:23:27 +0000

This econometric study covers the latent demand outlook for broadband Internet access across the states and cities of the United States. Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 13,000 cities in the United States. For each city in question, the percent share the city is of it's state and of the United States is reported. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city vis-a-vis others. This statistical approach can prove very useful to distribution and/or sales force strategies. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each state and city, latent demand estimates are created for broadband Internet access. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.

The 2009-2014 Outlook for Broadband Internet Access in the United States

Tags: city, P.I.E, demand estimates, United States, latent demand

TV Everywhere Could Be Huge

DTV Star — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:25:23 +0000

In an article last week, Media Daily News cited Time Warner Cable CFO John Martin’s statement that he expects half of all pay-TV homes in the U.S. will have the option of a TV Everywhere service to go along with their subscription. Cable and satellite companies are moving rapidly to give their customers “any time, any where” access to their programming content over the Internet. Martin also said he would not be surprised if the number of homes reached 50 million by this time next year.

TV Everywhere is an important movement in the subscription-based TV programming market. While consumers can access some TV content for free on the Internet — such as through Hulu or the individual network sites — they also want to be able to watch the premium channels and live programming that they have paid for as part of their subscriptions. The services are responding in hopes of being able to retain their customers and attract new ones.

I think that this is a great idea in general, but I’m concerned that it may backfire on the subscription services. If the TV Everywhere offerings are primarily the dozens of channels that people don’t watch that much anyway, or if there is an additional premimum charged to watch the “good” ones, I believe that it will put added pressure on the subscription services to offer “a la carte” pricing. With monthly bills of $100 to $200 being common, consumers would love to pick and choose which networks they want and not pay for the rest. But this would be the death knell for cable and satellite as we know it; I doubt that most could survive the loss of revenue for the “other” channels that don’t have much of an audience but round up the total channel count (and HD content count) for these companies. And then there’s the question of whether people will need the basic service at all; if given the choice of just getting their all content over the Internet, will they take down their dishes and cut off the coax?

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Tags: Martin, CFO John Martin, death knell, content, U.S., satellite companies, Could

The 2009-2014 Outlook for HDTV in India

DTV Star — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:23:03 +0000

This econometric study covers the latent demand outlook for HDTV across the states, union territories and cities of India. Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across over 5,100 cities in India. For each city in question, the percent share the city is of it's state or union territory and of India as a whole is reported. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city vis-a-vis others. This statistical approach can prove very useful to distribution and/or sales force strategies. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each state or union territory and city, latent demand estimates are created for HDTV. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.

Tags: latent, P.I.E, latent demand, India, Demand, industry earnings, demand estimates

The 2009-2014 Outlook for Broadband Internet Access in Greater

DTV Star — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:24:06 +0000

This econometric study covers the latent demand outlook for broadband Internet access across the regions of Greater China, including provinces, autonomous regions (Guangxi, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Xizang - Tibet), municipalities (Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai, and Tianjin), special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau), and Taiwan (all hereafter referred to as "regions"). Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 1,100 cities in Greater China. For each major city in question, the percent share the city is of the region and of Greater China is reported. Each major city is defined as an area of "economic population", as opposed to the demographic population within a legal geographic boundary. For many cities, the economic population is much larger that the population within the city limits; this is especially true for the cities of the Western regions. For the coastal regions, cities which are close to other major cities or which represent, by themselves, a high percent of the regional population, actual city-level population is closer to the economic population (e.g. in Beijing). Based on this "economic" definition of population, comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city's marketing and distribution value vis-a-vis others. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.

The 2009-2014 Outlook for Broadband Internet Access in Greater China

Tags: Tianjin, city, Beijing, Xinjiang, Macau

The 2009-2014 World Outlook for Broadband Internet Access

DTV Star — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:23:41 +0000

This econometric study covers the world outlook for broadband Internet access across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the country in question (in millions of U.S. dollars), the percent share the country is of the region and of the globe. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a country vis-à-vis others. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each country and across countries, latent demand estimates are created. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved. This study does not report actual sales data (which are simply unavailable, in a comparable or consistent manner in virtually all of the 230 countries of the world). This study gives, however, my estimates for the worldwide latent demand, or the P.I.E., for broadband Internet access. It also shows how the P.I.E. is divided across the world's regional and national markets. For each country, I also show my estimates of how the P.I.E. grows over time (positive or negative growth). In order to make these estimates, a multi-stage methodology was employed that is often taught in courses on international strategic planning at graduate schools of business.

Tags: P.I.E, demand estimates, stage methodology, U.S., latent, industry earnings, country

High-Tech Maneuvers: Industrial Policy Lessons of HDTV (Aei

DTV Star — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:22:29 +0000

If the government does not intervene to promote specific industries, will the Unites States fall behind in key technologies? Activists argue that the U.S. government must match the aggressive high-tech programs being tried abroad.

The study concludes that the HDTV case--the activists' model for promoting technological competitiveness--ironically confirms the misgivings of skeptics and demonstrates the flaws in industrial policy. HDTV activists have exaggerated the strategic national importance of the industry, overstated the threats from the HDTV programs abroad, and miscalculated the pace and shape of technological advance in electronics. They have distracted attention from policy issues more important to the development and diffusion of advanced technologies.

High-Tech Maneuvers: Industrial Policy Lessons of HDTV (Aei Studies, 530)

Tags: key technologies, U.S., government, specific industries, HDTV, policy, technological competitiveness

The 2009-2014 Outlook for HDTV in Greater China

DTV Star — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:23:15 +0000

This econometric study covers the latent demand outlook for HDTV across the regions of Greater China, including provinces, autonomous regions (Guangxi, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Xizang - Tibet), municipalities (Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai, and Tianjin), special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau), and Taiwan (all hereafter referred to as "regions"). Latent demand (in millions of U.S. dollars), or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.) estimates are given across some 1,100 cities in Greater China. For each major city in question, the percent share the city is of the region and of Greater China is reported. Each major city is defined as an area of "economic population", as opposed to the demographic population within a legal geographic boundary. For many cities, the economic population is much larger that the population within the city limits; this is especially true for the cities of the Western regions. For the coastal regions, cities which are close to other major cities or which represent, by themselves, a high percent of the regional population, actual city-level population is closer to the economic population (e.g. in Beijing). Based on this "economic" definition of population, comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a city's marketing and distribution value vis-a-vis others. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved.

Tags: Taiwan, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, city, industry earnings

Voice, Video, and Data Network Convergence: Architecture And

DTV Star — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:23:05 +0000

*Covers the latest standards and those being developed in an ever-evolving field
*Provides insight into the latest technology of video and data over wireless networks and how convergence will be a driving force in this industry
*Provides an understanding of the true capabilities behind each vendor's solution to allow for informed buying decisions

A recent survey of 500 U.S. companies with multiple locations found that 81% are planning to implement IP Telephony on their local area networks (LANs) in 2003, and two-thirds are looking at convergence for their wide area networks (WANs) as well. This includes voice, video and data over hard line and wireless networks.
Today, new standards and technologies are being developed to support convergence and voice over IP (VoIP) and Video over IP and wireless. Because convergence covers the voice and data world, it will be critical to understand all of these environments.

This book provides detailed information on convergence network models, protocol stacks, routing algorithms, gateways and switches required to support these networks.

Voice, Video, and Data Network Convergence: Architecture and Design, From VoIP to Wireless

Tags: local area networks, Video, protocol stacks, Convergence, Provides, U.S.

The 2009-2014 World Outlook for HDTV

DTV Star — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:22:42 +0000

This econometric study covers the world outlook for HDTV across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earnings (P.I.E.), for the country in question (in millions of U.S. dollars), the percent share the country is of the region and of the globe. These comparative benchmarks allow the reader to quickly gauge a country vis-à-vis others. Using econometric models which project fundamental economic dynamics within each country and across countries, latent demand estimates are created. This report does not discuss the specific players in the market serving the latent demand, nor specific details at the product level. The study also does not consider short-term cyclicalities that might affect realized sales. The study, therefore, is strategic in nature, taking an aggregate and long-run view, irrespective of the players or products involved. This study does not report actual sales data (which are simply unavailable, in a comparable or consistent manner in virtually all of the 230 countries of the world). This study gives, however, my estimates for the worldwide latent demand, or the P.I.E., for HDTV. It also shows how the P.I.E. is divided across the world's regional and national markets. For each country, I also show my estimates of how the P.I.E. grows over time (positive or negative growth). In order to make these estimates, a multi-stage methodology was employed that is often taught in courses on international strategic planning at graduate schools of business.

Tags: demand estimates, industry earnings, stage methodology, U.S., study, latent, country

Broadband Making Gains in Rural Markets

DTV Star — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:22:21 +0000

Broadband Making Gains In Rural Markets
Broadband penetration in rural markets in U.S. has experienced double-digit growth in the past year, driven largely by regional providers continuing to increase their market share in these areas, according to a new report by comScore. "The recent announcement of the government's national broadband plan demonstrates the increasing importance of broadband expansion as a country-wide initiative ...

Hollywood Video to Close

DTV Star — Sat, 21 May 2011 17:22:39 +0000

Do you still believe that there’s a big future in moving little polycarbonate discs around the country? Here’s another data point to the contrary; Hollywood Video is throwing in the towel and closing all of its 2,415 U.S. stores. The parent company, Movie Gallery, filed for bankruptcy in February and had planned to close more than half of its stores. It now has changed directions and is going to liquidate the business.

Hollywood Video is the second largest U.S. chain of movie rental stores, behind Blockbuster which is having its own troubles. Between the Redbox kiosks, the Netflix mail rental service, cable on-demand offerings, and the rapid growth of online streaming sources, there’s just not much room left for a local storefront video rental business. And now it looks as though some more prime commercial real estate will be coming on the market soon.

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Tags: U.S., Hollywood, Close, s chain, Business, prime commercial real estate

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