Telco 2.0 News Review
Telco 2.0 Top Stories
- Broadband Connectivity: FCC to switch USF over to fibre deployment, and back PSTN replacement?
- Regulation: BSG - bring us your cost estimates and help build UK broadband
- Emerging Markets: Megatender is off, Unitech Wireless relies entirely on tower sharing
- Technology Disruptions: DARPA: the troops need an app store based on Google Android and they need it now!
- 2-Sided Business Models: The secrets of Amazon.com
We may be facing a major moment in industry history: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is looking at using the Universal Service Fund (USF) to fund broadband deployment. In the past, the use of the USF has been purely voice-oriented, and has hitherto transferred large sums of money from urban and suburban telecoms users to rural operators.
If this goes ahead, watch out for many operators deciding that it’s time to set an out-of-service date for the PSTN itself - USF subsidies are assessed by PSTN line, and if they start flowing in other ways, there’s not much reason to go entirely cellular or to VoIP.












