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Will Workman is a former editor of telco industry publications. He is now working on his PhD in mass communications. He can be reached care of
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Google's New Platform May Upend iPhone
by Will Workman, 10.15.2008
The expected unveiling of a new generation of smartphones equipped with Google's Android software and linked to faster networks could herald a breathtaking sea change in our usage and definition of broadband. More...
Variables in the Digital Video Logjam
by Will Workman, 07.23.2008
If the evolution of broadband video content takes the path music did, then someday soon we will all be using the video equivalents of iPods and iTunes. More...
Comcast Vows ‘Protocol Agnostic’ Approach
by Will Workman, 05.28.2008
An Associated Press investigation last October found Comcast was sending out fake TCP reset packets to either end of a file-sharing connection, causing the target computer to reset its connection over and over again. More...
Auction Opens Mobile Broadband Horizons
04.14.2008
Will Workman is a former editor of telco industry publications Cable World and MediaView. He is now working on his PhD in mass communications. He can be reached care of TV Technology. More...
Wi-Fi, WiMax Efforts Walloped
by Will Workman, 04.02.2008
EarthLink announced in February that it is putting its city Wi-Fi business up for sale. More...
Comcast Caught in a Free-Speech Firestorm
by Will Workman, 11.21.2007
It employs technology that detects when you’ve been using the phone a ton. Then, masquerading as your phone, it sends a busy signal to those calling you. You wouldn’t like that very much, would you? More...
Will WiMAX End Wi-Fi, Cellular Woes?
by Will Workman, 09.19.2007
As clichés go, huge has become hugely overused in recent years. But as telecommunications markets go, they don’t get any more huge than the New York metropolitan area. More...
Cable Operators Finally Face FCC Mandate
by Will Workman, 07.25.2007
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 may now seem like ancient history, but its reverberations are still being felt. More...
Broadband Benefits From TV Ad Dollars
by Will Workman, 06.27.2007
It’s only a mere $9 billion. Based on various news reports, that’s the roughly what advertisers will spend on broadcast TV in the upcoming season beginning this fall, with no increase over the current season. More...
Telcos Fiber Plans Finally Start Paying Off
by Will Workman, 05.30.2007
Here they come, finally. After so much hoopla during the past decade about how they can present a valid IPTV competitor to cable and satellite, ye olde telephone companies are at last entering the fray. More...
Broadband Video Succumbs to YouTube
by Will Workman, 04.16.2007
It's a real treat to teach bright undergrads at one of the nation's finest public universities. More...
Will Venice P2P Streaming Site Surge in 2007?
by Will Workman, 02.21.2007
Why stop at a 10-minute online video when you can produce and distribute your own channel? More...
Me, Too! Programmers Dive Into Broadband
by Will Workman, 10.18.2006
The radio star lasted more than a half century until, according to the Buggles, video killed it. But the video star is looking mighty old at 25. More...
Senate Looks to Rewrite Telecommunications Act
by Will Workman, 05.31.2006
Suddenly noticing that the United States ranks 16th internationally in broadband adoption, federal lawmakers are finally taking a serious step toward updating the creaky Telecommunications Act of 1996. More...