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		<title>Paul Budde &#45; CircleID</title>
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		<description>Postings from Paul Budde on CircleID</description>
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		<dc:date>2010-03-16T06:56:00-08:00</dc:date>
		

		
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			<title> Mobile Operators and the Broadband Boom (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[With $72 billion invested in mobile broadband it would be hard to argue that this market is suffering from a lack of investment. More than half of this is taking place in Asia. Over the last two years close to 300 mobile operators in 120 countries have launched mobile broadband networks (using the 3G HSPA technology) and some 70 of these are already planning the next upgrade of their networks using the LTE technology -- the first $5 billion of investment money has been committed to that technology. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100316_mobile_operators_and_the_broadband_boom">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-03-16T06:56:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> The Free Internet in Jeopardy (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The venerated BBC World Service recently commissioned a polled involving more than 27,000 people across 26 countries. The findings are unremarkable: some 87% of Internet users believe that Internet access should be a basic right, and more than 70% of non-users believe that they should have access to it. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100311_the_free_internet_in_jeopardy">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-03-11T11:21:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> American National Broadband Plan Good First Step (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The National Broadband Plan that the FCC will present on 17 March will set the USA on a completely different telecoms path. This plan will hopefully show Congress that it is worthwhile making the legislative changes that will deliver the social and economic benefits of a national broadband infrastructure. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100310_american_national_broadband_plan_good_first_step">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-03-10T11:48:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> OTT Threat to Telco's Middleware Opportunities (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/ott_threat_to_telcos_middleware_opportunities</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I recently participated in two Comverse events, and once again the message was driven home to me about the enormous opportunities that lie ahead of the industry in the field of new telecoms applications. The middleware and cloud applications that are now appearing at the edge of the network will of course, be further developed once high-speed broadband becomes available, but already they are having an enormous impact on the telecoms market. The new user experiences that can be obtainable through these applications will enrich fast broadband networks beyond recognition. What we now have is, on the one hand, the Over-The-Top (OTT) applications that have conquered the world... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/ott_threat_to_telcos_middleware_opportunities">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-03-08T07:43:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Will Microsoft Be Able to Make the Jump? (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/will_microsoft_be_able_to_make_the_jump</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In marketing terminology this is called 'jumping the S-curve'. Microsoft, however, has left its jump rather late. One could argue that we are well and truly at the top of the S at the moment, so it will be interesting to see if Microsoft can still take the leap towards the enormous growth that is currently taking place in the group of digital media companies such as Google and Apple. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/will_microsoft_be_able_to_make_the_jump">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-02-17T13:55:01-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Google Puts Its Weight Behind FttH (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100216_google_puts_its_weight_behind_ftth</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The blogs are flying all around the world -- some seem to get it right but most do not. My analysis of Google's announcement to become involved in building FttH networks is actually the same as the one as I made when that company announced its plans to build wireless city networks, and when it announced its intention to invest in submarine cable networks. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100216_google_puts_its_weight_behind_ftth">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-02-16T12:00:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> VIPR: New Developments in the VoIP Market (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100203_vipr_new_developments_in_the_voip_market</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This is a new development in the VoIP market. This is how one of my colleagues, Cullen Jennings explained it to me. Today we have two widely deployed global identifiers for reaching people. One is delegated address out of DNS and the other is phone numbers. So I consider an address like email: carol@johnson.com or xmpp:john@gmail.com to roughly be out of the DNS namespace and phone number to be out of the E.164 name space. Phone numbers have lots of parts that are not cool, but they also have some cool parts... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100203_vipr_new_developments_in_the_voip_market">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-02-03T17:38:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Sharing: The First Step to Structural Change in Mobile (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100202_sharing_the_first_step_to_structural_change_in_mobile</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The arrival of the iPhone, Android and iPad will raise the stakes higher in the mobile broadband market. The fact that iPhone alone has over 140,000 Apps over sort of open networks, not portals, shows the demand for mobile applications. This will put an enormous strain on the infrastructure of the mobile operators and will require them to build fibre networks to all mobile stations, as well as invest in more spectrum and new technologies such as LTE. At the same time the mobile subscriber markets are becoming saturated and competition is driving margins down. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100202_sharing_the_first_step_to_structural_change_in_mobile">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-02-02T12:18:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Telecoms Leadership and the State of the Union (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100129_telecoms_leadership_and_the_state_of_the_union</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Before, during and after his inaugural speech (January 2009) President Obama spoke of the national benefits of broadband, and the changes which have been set in motion in the US telecoms market that were unheard of even a year ago. During the previous administration the incumbent telcos and cable companies had been given more freedom. As a consequence, innovation and competition dwindled and the US was no longer a leader in telecoms... However, since that time, the White House has lost some of its initial leadership. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100129_telecoms_leadership_and_the_state_of_the_union">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-01-29T09:16:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Haiti's Telecommunications Sector in the Aftermath (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100126_haitis_telecommunications_sector_in_the_aftermath</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The scale of the devastation inflicted by Haiti's earthquake a little over two weeks ago, meant that no industry has been left untouched by its effect. The telecommunications sector is no exception. Ever since the earthquake struck on Tuesday 12th January, fixed line and wireless communications have been virtually unavailable. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100126_haitis_telecommunications_sector_in_the_aftermath">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-01-26T19:38:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Are Google, Microsoft and Apple the Next Utilities in Telecoms? (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/are_google_microsoft_and_apple_the_next_utilities_in_telecoms</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Over the last few years the increasing amount of discussion about telecoms reveals that the real competition for telecoms companies is not from other telcos, but companies such as Google and others. While I agree with this, obviously it is important to analyse it further. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/are_google_microsoft_and_apple_the_next_utilities_in_telecoms">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-01-25T11:36:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Does the US Get the Bold Broadband Vision Congress Has Asked For? (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/does_us_get_the_bold_broadband_vision_congress_has_asked_for</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The US Congress asked the FCC for a bold plan to achieve the bold vision expressed by the Congress... We discussed this issue in our Big Think group and here are some comments. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/does_us_get_the_bold_broadband_vision_congress_has_asked_for">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-01-19T19:47:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> eHealth: Start With the Professionals (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/ehealth_start_with_the_professionals</link>
			<description><![CDATA[With the prospect of broadband networks becoming more and more of a reality, it appears that concepts such as eHealth are not too far away. Digital healthcare describes the whole system of GPs, hospitals and regional healthcare centres, while eHealth describes the many health applications which will become available for people to use at home. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/ehealth_start_with_the_professionals">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-01-13T12:24:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> International Fibre Bandwidth Hubbing, a Lucrative Business (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100111_international_fibre_bandwidth_hubbing_a_lucrative_business</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The small West African country of Benin has been working quietly over the past few years to become a regional hub for international fibre bandwidth. The national telco, Benin Telecoms (BT) has been building terrestrial fibre routes to landlocked neighbouring countries such as Burkina Faso and Niger, allowing them to connect to its landing station for the SAT-3/WASC cable, the only one serving the region. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100111_international_fibre_bandwidth_hubbing_a_lucrative_business">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-01-11T08:43:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> China Mobile Growing Faster Than GDP (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In the past five years, as one of the country's 'pillar industry', China's telecom service industry has grown at a faster rate than the country's GDP. Revenue from basic telecom service contributes approximately 2.1% of the country's GDP, while value added telecom services contribute a further 3.2% to total GDP. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091221_china_mobile_growing_faster_than_gdp">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2009-12-21T10:15:00-08:00</dc:date>
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