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	<dc:date>2026-05-02T15:50:00+00:00</dc:date>

	
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		<title> USA: Court Leaves FCC With Discretion to Regulate Special Access Circuits (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, the decision to deregulate "special access" circuits was upheld. The case had been brought by the Ad Hoc Committee, a long standing body of large business users, one of the main categories of buyers of high capacity leased lines to interconnect business premises. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsusa_court_fcc_regulate_special_access_circuits">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-05-02T08:50:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> UK: Barely One in Ten Users Are Satisfied With Mobile Broadband (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A web-based poll on the Mobile Broadband Genie site had participants 1160 who were asked: "Is your mobile broadband fast enough?" 133 yes; 740 no; 287 don't know. Perceptions of the term "mobile broadband" appear to far exceed what is being delivered. While operators have been competing to offer cross-subsidized laptop and netbook deals with higher usage caps and ever cheaper mobile Internet deals, they seem to have overlooked the quality of the service. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsuk_users_mobile_broadband">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-05-02T08:50:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Carriers Are No Longer Operators (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The classic view of a wireline or mobile carrier is that it was an "operator", it ran out cables, raised poles, installed switches, constructed central offices and base stations and the like. However, the figures from Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) show that firm is making 45% of its sales from services, meaning it is constructing and managing networks on behalf of "carriers". NSN is "carrying" a lot of telecoms traffic. This has been accelerated by the global financial crisis... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20090717_carriers_are_no_longer_operators">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-05-02T08:50:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Australia Sets Rules for Access on Incumbent's Fixed Network (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December 2005 the Australian Competition &amp; Consumer Commission (ACCC) launched an inquiry into the future regulation of wholesale access on fixed networks. It has now announced a final decision, following a public inquiry, under section 152AL of the Trade Practices Act 1974 on six fixed-line services that had been due to expire at the end of this month. The following will remain declared services until July 2014... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20090715_australia_access_on_incumbents_fixed_network">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-05-02T08:50:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Mobile Broadband in Africa and the GCC Countries (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story of the growth of pre-paid mobile voice and SMS in Africa and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council is well known. The challenge is to move to mobile broadband, which is seen as having potentially explosive growth. Operators will need to create new value propositions, they face significant internal challenges and risk being displaced by rivals moving faster or better able to understand and meet the needs of customers... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20090715_mobile_broadband_in_africa_and_gcc_countries">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-05-02T08:50:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Beyond Telco 2.0 and Quadruple Play (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great challenges has been to conceive a business model for next generation telephone companies. This is constrained by their limited core competences which do not match well with many of the opportunities that lie in entertainment and complex/customised bundles for consumers. Frost &amp; Sullivan, a leading firm of industry analysts, notes the enthusiasm of service providers to offer connectivity, entertainment and information services, within a digitally connected world... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20090707_beyond_telco_20_and_quadruple_play">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-05-02T08:50:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> A Review of Broadband Over Power Lines (BPL) or Power Line Telecommunication (PLT) (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The OECD has published a detailed report, Broadband over Powerlines: Developments and Policy Issues, on what was once considered a potentially interesting and disruptive technology that might have rivaled DSL. It notes that having largely failed in that, it is instead being applied to "smart grid" applications. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20090707_review_of_broadband_over_power_lines_bpl">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-05-02T08:50:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> US Antitrust Enforcement in Telecommunication Being Ramped Up (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The <em>Wall Street Journal</em> is reporting that antitrust enforcement in telecommunication is being ramped up by the Obama Administration, after relatively lax times. In a piece entitled <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124689740762401297.html">Telecoms Face Antitrust Threat</a> it indicates that investigators are weighing up the roles of the large carriers and whether they are abusing the market power amassed under the Bush Administration. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsus_antitrust_in_telecommunication_ramped_up">More...</a>]]></description>
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