Ted Shelton done a brief analysis of the economics of starting a VOIP telco and conclude it will take only $8,000. (Via Kevin Werbach) I made a similar rant last year arguing that people will wonder why they dont do it themselves once they discover how cheap it is. I also believe that IP Telephony […]
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Guiding Principle of the Internet
I just read Michael Powell speech on 8th Feburary called Preserving Internet Freedom: Guiding Principles For The Industry. It is excellent piece on giving power to the people, reduce regulation of the Internet and most of all, maintain “Internet Freedom”. I am impressed! I mean, as the Chairman of FCC, it is easier give some […]
Naked Corporation
Naked Corporation by Don Tapscott and David Ticoll
Blogging on the Train
I been taking the train to work lately. Standing in the train and typing this in my Zaurus, I begin to wonder how long will it take for the Internet to be really perversive. I mean, the technologies are already here. We have Wifi (802.11), 802.16, 3G etc. But getting companies to invest and deploy […]
Horizontal Layering
I been thinking about something Joi told me over lunch last week: “Power company is making tons of money off data center”. Power is something we take for granted. We assumed it is there whenever we need it. We don’t even factor it in our network design. Yet, in a discussion of Internet business model, […]
Observations from Japan
Broadband pentration in Japan rise to 13.6M or 29% of the household at the end of Dec 2003, according to MPHPT. This means there are nearly 5.8M new subscribers in the last 12 months. Following the trend, we are seeing about 1/2M new subscribers per month. The main driver for this growth apparently are Broadband […]
What happened to Dean Howard?
That’s one big question which has been bugging a lot of people: What happened? There are a lot of theory but I got the most interesting one today from Dave’s IPer. It is an article by Dr. Carl Jensen title “The Unmaking of a President – 2004”. What is scary is that the media company […]
Japan Day 4
Oh boy…I almost thought I couldn’t walk back from the station. My legs are dead. I did a lot of walking today and my shoes aren’t really suited for that. Somehow, I made back to my hotel in one piece. My first appointment is 10am at Hotel New Otani. I reached Nagata-cho station at 9:50am […]
Japan Day 3
Today is an easy meeting too. We spend some time to go through the resolution one by one to clean it up. Then we pass the resolutions fairly easily and wrap up the meeting by noon! Yeap! Oh, I also got a pleasant surprising getting an invitation to hook by from Theodore Ts’o who is […]
Japan Day 2
Meeting today was smooth, much smoother and faster then what I expected. In fact, it went so well that we finish at 3pm. I stayed on to help to draft the resolutions but otherwise, things goes well. We also conclude that there is no need to meet again. This is our first participation in SC22-LRG […]