Moving First With Next-generation Broadband May Be No Advantage, Says Rob Gallagher

摘要

Some of you may scoff at the notion that mobile group 3 could teach fixed-line ISPs a thing or two about the broadband business. After all, 3 spent the best part of a decade - and an estimated US$20 billion - to become a "new kind of media company" before realizing that the killer apps for its next-generation wireless network were'cheap voice and unfettered Internet access. But in doing so, it has learned an important lesson that operators rushing to bring ultrafast cable and fiber broadband services to market could do well to consider.