Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

Tag: pipes

  • Fixing the UK’s broadband crisis: Spiked’s Traffic jam debate

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    If you throw a rock in the air in London on any day of the working week, chances are it will land on a New Media conference. These are primarily social gatherings for the same group of academics and media hangers-on, and you can bet they’ll be Twittering. (I’m often invited – usually it’s because…

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  • How the iPhone puts a bomb under mobile networks

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    If you think everything that could have been written about the iPhone already has been written, prepare to be surprised. One vital aspect of Apple’s strategy has been overlooked – with multi-billion consequences for complacent network operators. Over at Telco 2.0, the blog of analysts STL Partners, we learn that networks who partner with Apple…

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  • EU plans to regulate online niceness (and ISPs)

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Europe’s most powerful quango, the European Commission, says it wants to accelerate a “single market” for online music, film, and games – and is threatening legislation to bring it about. Although the EU’s Telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding sees the market for digital entertainment quadrupling (to €8.3bn by 2010), she feels the bureaucrats need to get…

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  • Obama mounts ‘Neutrality’ bandwaggon

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Politicians long ago gave up on politics. Instead of articulating great ideas, the choice that faces voters today is between identikit managerial bureaucrats who’ve never had a job outside politics. Most of their adult lives have been spent in the hermetic world of wonkdom. So it’s little wonder, then, that they have trouble distinguishing between…

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  • VoIP is Dead. It’s just another feature, now

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Business-wise, Skype is a basketcase. But that’s just one of the things that makes it one of the most emblematic companies of our time – a real, Ur-Web 2.0 company. Like so many internet companies, Skype has millions and millions of users. Like these internet companies, too, it can’t make very much money off all…

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  • We sneer at your global standards, and your economies of scale…

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    More dismal news for the US consumer. After the simultaneous failure of Municipal Wi-Fi projects in three major US cities – something we predicted four years ago – faster, cheaper mobile data looks further away than ever. So why are Google lobbyists advocating for the next wave of collapsing wireless initiatives – rather than helping…

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