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February 2005
When it comes to phone and media service, a lot of consumers want a package deal.
November 2004
Providers can no longer expect new subscriptions to provide growth. Can faster access and novel services take up the slack?
February 2004
Must video walk the same plank that music did?
May 2003
The technology’s rapid spread will affect the market structures of many industries. Be prepared!
December 2002
European cable companies are in dire financial straits. The reason? Not just debt but a strategy that has produced negative cash flows across the whole industry.
June 2002
Don’t bet on it. More viewers and more pages viewed won’t be enough to save broken business models.
The president of a leading computer game publisher warns that broadband will not only enlarge the value chain but also reorder it.
May 2002
The capital markets may be skeptical, but physics is on the side of optical technology, explains Corning Optical Communications president Wendell Weeks.
February 2002
Lawmakers and regulators must abandon their fixation on low prices.
Portals owned by broadband access networks now have a head start. But in the longer term, free competition will prevail.
December 2001
Latin America’s broadband market is bigger and better than it seems.
November 2001
The bad news: broadband’s technology, infrastructure, and economics are still inadequate. The good news: broadcasters are far more secure from attack than they were at the dawn of the World Wide Web.
Traditional information technology players such as AT&T, IBM, and EDS are moving back into the driver’s seat.
October 2001
There may not be a single right answer, but there is now enough information to find the right answer for you.
August 2001
McKinsey research suggests that Euroconsumers will gravitate to broadband more slowly than access, content, and service providers had expected. Although the race isn’t over, DSL will likely prevail everywhere but the Netherlands.
June 2001
Before purchasing financial products, most Europeans want advice from experts. Broadband technology will allow it to be dispensed on-line, but will consumers accept the new dispensation?
May 2001
During the next few years, home networks will leap off the pages of science magazines and into the households of millions. But who will pay, and how?
February 2001
In a digital age, bet on the pipe that can carry the most digits.
Most of the money in broadband access will be made serving midsize and small businesses, and in this segment DSL wins hands down.
In a few years’ time, Europe’s broadband landscape may well be balkanized.
Which broadband technology will win the race for homes and offices?
The digitization of music has industry execs in a twist.
A McKinsey study suggests that the persistence of distinct consumer segments will force companies to serve each of them differently.
June 2000
Some of Europe’s radio stations have a chance to double their revenues, but deregulation will heighten the difference between winners and losers.
European broadband providers will have to adjust their lines of attack to the peculiarities of the countries where they plan to do business.
May 1999
Can the incumbent telco empire strike back at the attackers threatening the financial health of the transport business?
November 1998
Has broadband finally arrived? Cable companies have the lead, but RBOC technology may have better economics. What now for the narrowband winners?
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