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"Du très haut débit, "pour tous", en 2022 : ce sera la ligne directrice du plan national très haut débit (THD), attendu pour la fin de l'année, a affirmé, mercredi 12 septembre, la ministre de l'économie numérique, Fleur Pellerin, à La Montagne. Mais pour mettre en œuvre ce plan de lutte contre la fracture numérique, de nombreuses difficultés devront être résolues."

Google is getting into the Internet Service Provider (ISP) game, as you might have heard. Its new offering, Google Fiber was announced today in Kansas City. Right now, the service is only available there, but from what we can tell, it's ridiculously fast. For $70 a month you'll get "gigabit" Internet service, which is 100 times faster than your standard cable modem. Kick in an extra $50 a month and you'll get cable-TV-like-service as well.

ansas City is about to experience the Internet as it should be. If you're in the right neighborhood, you could be enjoying downloads speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second when Google's pilot project lights up in Kansas and Missouri this September. You might think the Google initiative will force U.S. Internet service providers, which generally deliver downloads speeds a fraction of what the search giant is promising, to finally get their own fiber projects moving. But you'd be wrong. 

Our future will be connected. Humanity is in the process of transitioning into a world in which we can be better understood as a richly connected collective than a set of individuals. Connectivity will drive our prosperity, both economic and social. Recognising this, governments around the world are all seeking to provide increased bandwidth and speed to their populations at the moment. What they can't agree on is which part of that process should be prioritised: the current debate in Britain over the choice between breadth of access and speed is a case in point.

Selon un rapport produit par la firme britannique Ovum Consulting, l'industrie canadienne des télécommunications sans fil a contribué pour 43 milliards$ à l'économie canadienne en 2010. Diffusée hier par l'Association canadienne des télécommunications sans fil (ACTS), l'étude a déterminé que l'industrie des services de télécommunications sans fil a injecté 18 milliards$ directement au PIB canadien et fourni 15,66 milliards$ supplémentaires dans la chaîne d'approvisionnement.

Investigating the financial fraud and misguided power plays that brought down the telecom industry Once the foundation of the Dow and NASDAQ, the telecom industry has eaten up more capital than any other industry in recent history and has nothing to show for it. Today, it is by far the worst culprit in the spate of financial dirty dealings that have been splashed across the business pages, and yet the rewards reaped by top executives at many of these failed or failing companies have been inversely proportionate to their decline. Broadbandits takes readers behind the scenes to get the story they won't get in the media. Investigative reporter Om Malik follows the money trail and deciphers the actions and motivations of a generation of new economy "barbarians" that brought down this once lucrative industry. This intriguing book offers an inside look into the telecom bubble, with tales and anecdotes about mavericks who turned simple light and glass fibers into veins of gold, financiers who got greedy and fleeced unsuspecting millions, clueless venture capitalists who thought they'd tapped into the mother lode, hapless entrepreneurs who believed that they were changing the world, and self-proclaimed pundits who were cheering it all on from the sidelines. Broadbandits is a compelling account of the downfall of telecom giants such as WorldCom and Global Crossing, and will show readers how many telecom upstarts and veterans alike became victims of what one chief executive aptly described as "high-yield heroin." Om Malik (New York, NY) is a Senior Writer for Red Herring who focuses on the telecommunications sector. Prior to joining Red Herring in July 2000, he was senior editor at Forbes.com. His work has also been published in newspapers and magazines such as The Wall Street Journal, Business 2.0, Brandweek, and Crain's New York Business. For a very brief while, he was a venture capitalist.

Last week, a Palo Alto city commission voted to recommend the abandonment of the city's years-old effort to bring fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) high-speed Internet connectivity to its residents. In a 4-3 vote on June 6, the Utilities Advisory Commission recommended to the City Council that the city stop analysis of expanding the city's existing dark-fiber network to all residents. The recommendation came on the heels of a feasibility study that did not have promising conclusions.

A l'occasion d'une table ronde le 18 juin 2012 autour du thème « La fibre optique: nouvel Eldorado? », Joël Mau, directeur de Mission à l'institut Mines Telecoms affirme qu'il faudra « 20 milliards d'euros d'investissement afin de câbler l'intégralité de la France en fibre optique ». Cela représente le même investissement que pour créer la liaison métro du Grand Paris. 

La Ville de Québec a officiellement inauguré jeudi un réseau de fibre optique qui relie sept grandes villes du Québec. Deux autres villes devraient s'ajouter sous peu.

La Ville de Québec a officiellement inauguré jeudi un réseau de fibre optique qui relie sept grandes villes du Québec. Deux autres villes devraient s'ajouter sous peu. Ce réseau permet déjà de partager des applications dans la gestion des ressources humaines comme la paie et la cour municipale. Pour les citoyens, le réseau permet aux villes de partager des données publiques qui permettent à des passionnés du Web de développer des applications qu'ils pourront utiliser.

(New York, New York, 8 June 2012) - The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) today named Riverside, California, USA as the world's Intelligent Community of the Year 2012 during its annual awards ceremony at Steiner Film Studios in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Riverside, which has appeared among the Top Seven Intelligent Communities for two years in a row, was represented by a delegation led by Mayor Ron Loveridge, as well as the city's CIO Steve Reneker and Assistant City Manager Deanna Lorson. The co-founders of ICF - Louis A. Zacharilla, John G. Jung and Robert A. Bell - presented the award to Riverside, which succeeds Eindhoven, Netherlands, the 2011 recipient. 

Pour répondre à des questions récurrentes, et suite à la lecture de l'excellent livre de Tim Wu, The Master Switch, je me permets de brosser un petit portrait historique de l'installation du monopole, ou oligopole pour être plus exact, des compagnies de télécommunications sur l'internet au Québec. Je propose également une solution au problème du monopole par l'entremise de la nationalisation du réseau de télécommunication physique et la création d'une société d'état: Réseau-Québec.