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Docsis 3.0 works by bonding four channels -- each could otherwise be used for an analog TV broadcast -- and allowing them to be used as one big data pipe.
"One company will effectively control the only data pipe going into a near majority of American homes, whether that's internet TV or phones," Stoltz said.
Terms like DSlam (digital subscriber line access multiplexer, the equipment that sends data into a bigger data pipe), C.O. (central office, the place where the switching equipment resides) and throughput (transmission speed) trip off his tongue.
The result of many of those negotiations was that Apple captured most of the value created -- not only by selling the device but also by offering downloadable mobile software, games, and services through its Application Store -- reducing the role of the telecom operator to that of a simple data pipe.
Suddenly, your data pipe becomes not bigger but increasingly narrower.
Verizon wants to sell that data pipe and fill it with the most attractive applications.
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And with the data pipes open, we'll quickly see what our companies are made of.
But there is more to making the internet go faster than laying bigger, faster data pipes.
In 2012 Britain even asked the BND to tap German data pipes and swap information.
For example, while mobile data speeds can be high, in most cases mobile data capacity is low, meaning that fixed data pipes are important for many applications.
What difference does it make if your song arrives as data etched onto a CD or as data piped in from the Internet?
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