Foundry Faces Tough Times
Last night Foundry announced its preliminary first-quarter results, cutting its revenue forecast from $100-$110 million to $84 million. The company attributed this shortfall to two key factors: a slowdown in U.S. Federal Government orders and worse-than-expected sales to North American enterprise customers (see Foundry Q1 to Fall Short).
The first sign of these problems emerged earlier this year when, despite announcing record annual revenues, Foundry admitted that Federal spending was a sore spot in its fourth-quarter figures. The firm blamed this shortfall on the shifting of budgets to the Iraq war effort (see War Fogs Foundry's Numbers).
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— James Rogers, Site Editor, Next-Gen Data Center Forum
Nowhere do they mention the fact that a modern fiber infrastructure is a natural monopoly nor do they mention that bandwidth abundance is the economic definition of a public good.
Who is training these people?
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"Why California Is Falling Behind
Written By: Sonia Arrison
Published In: IT&T News
Publication Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: The Heartland Institute
A recent California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) report warned the state is falling behind in developing sound policies that will speed the deployment of broadband.
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Recognizing the Problem
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In order to build broadband infrastructure in California, right-of-way permits are often required by various agencies, including federal, state, local, and even tribal governments. Obtaining the permits can take as little as a few weeks but sometimes months or even years.
Officials in Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties recently took two years to approve permits for SBC. People who complain that providers are taking too long to get broadband service to a particular area should consider the enormous barriers government has created to high-speed rollout. To the credit of the PUC, it has recognized these serious problems."
The CPUC broadband report can be found at
http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/publish...