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	<title>(Accedian Networks&#039;) EtherNEWS Blog</title>
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		<title>&#8220;Offload&#8221; or &#8220;Upload&#8221;? Maybe Wi-Fi Can Challenge Mobile</title>
		<link>http://www.accedian.com/blog/ethernews/offload-upload-wifi-challenge-mobile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gary.kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology advances have a way of allowing entrepreneurs to revisit business models that simply did not work in earlier periods. Microsoft tried for quite some time to popularize “tablets” as a better work device. Apple succeeded with a consumer content consumption approach. 
“Application service providers” tried around 2000 to popularize what we now call cloud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Smart Phone Shipments Will Surpass Feature Phones in 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gary.kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global smart phone shipments will surpass shipments of basic and feature phones for the first time in 2013, according to NPD.
Global smart phone shipments are expected to reach 937 million units in 2013, compared to just 889 million units for basic phones and feature phones.
Between 2011 and 2016, smart phone shipments will grow at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$340 Billion in LTE Service Revenues by 2017</title>
		<link>http://www.accedian.com/blog/news/340-billion-lte-service-revenues-2017/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gary.kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Juniper Research forecasts that 4G LTE revenues will reach more than $340 billion by 2017 globally, almost 70 percent of which will be generated by North American and the Far East and China markets.  
4G Americas reports that the number of LTE connections worldwide will pass 100 million in May 2013, with the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Cells, Carrier Wi-Fi Could be a &#8220;Game Changer&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.accedian.com/blog/news/small-cells-carrier-wifi-game-changer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accedian.com/blog/news/small-cells-carrier-wifi-game-changer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gary.kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The use of Wi-Fi functionality in small-cell base stations will be a game changer for mobile service providers, easing heavily congested data pipes while linking together billions of devices into a single network architecture, according to the IHS iSuppli.
Small cells&#8211;low-power base stations each supporting approximately 100 to 200 simultaneous users&#8211;will augment wireless coverage and capacity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cable Companies will in Future be Almost Exclusively ISPs</title>
		<link>http://www.accedian.com/blog/news/cable-companies-future-exclusively-isps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accedian.com/blog/news/cable-companies-future-exclusively-isps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 14:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gary.kim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[business strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dumb pipe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the long run, cable TV operators will, for the most part, become simple ISPs. “The future value of the cable MSO home connection will be almost wholly tied to data bandwidth,” according to analysts at Fitch Ratings. 
That might terrify most service providers, as it suggests cable companies, most telcos and others primarily will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Tier One Telcos Now in the Position of the Old AT&amp;T?</title>
		<link>http://www.accedian.com/blog/news/tier-telcos-position-att/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accedian.com/blog/news/tier-telcos-position-att/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 14:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gary.kim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.accedian.com/blog/?p=3326</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AT&#38;T, once the U.S. monopoly provider, thought it made a pretty good choice in in the mid 1980s, when it chose to keep long distance, manufacturing and Bell Labs in the breakup of the old Bell system. AT&#38;T chose wrong.
As a result, its basic strategy, for years leading up to its acquisition by SBC, was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In a Competitive Market, Low Cost Provider Wins</title>
		<link>http://www.accedian.com/blog/news/competitive-market-cost-provider-wins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accedian.com/blog/news/competitive-market-cost-provider-wins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 13:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gary.kim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.accedian.com/blog/?p=3323</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a competitive market, the lowest-cost competitor tends to win, all other things being equal. Nobody would question the notion that tier-one telcos tend to be the highest-cost providers in any market. 
The implications therefore are stark. If, over time, leading telcos cannot cut their costs, they will be beat. 
In the U.S. market, cable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carrier Grade Backhaul Using Free Space Optics, Millimeter Wave</title>
		<link>http://www.accedian.com/blog/news/carrier-grade-backhaul-free-space-optics-millimeter-wave/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accedian.com/blog/news/carrier-grade-backhaul-free-space-optics-millimeter-wave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 23:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gary.kim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AOptix]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.accedian.com/blog/?p=3319</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Free space optical technology has been commercially available for decades, but has problems with fog, limiting its use. So AOptix packages optics with millimeter wave radio (which doesn’t work in rain), to provide carrier-grade availability of up to 99.999 percent (which translates into no more than 5.26 minutes of down time per year).
AOptix says its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Happens When Internet Access is &#8220;Free?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.accedian.com/blog/news/internet-access-free/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accedian.com/blog/news/internet-access-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 15:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gary.kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free computing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the key implication of Google Fiber selling 1-Gbps symmetrical access for $70 a month? 
Ignore for a brief moment the fact that such offers pose destabilizing and disruptive challenges to any ISPs competing in the markets where Google Fiber exists, or could exist. At the very least, Google Fiber will push other major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Rules for Post-PSTN Networks?</title>
		<link>http://www.accedian.com/blog/news/rules-postpstn-networks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.accedian.com/blog/news/rules-postpstn-networks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 13:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gary.kim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IP networks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regulation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a high level, there are two ways two fundamental ways to approach the regulation of the coming all-IP network that will replace the public switched telephone network.             
The IP transition could simply substantially apply current framework, or regulators could try and create [...]]]></description>
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