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Broadband Markets' founder Mitchell Shapiro has published numerous articles examining competitive strategies and dynamics in the broadband industry. He has also co-authored a regular Broadband column in Lightwave magazine, with Don Gall, a partner in Pangrac & Associates. A selection of these articles and columns are available below by clicking on the title. Titles designated as PDF files must be downloaded for viewing; instructions are given below. All articles and columns are reprinted by permission.

Articles:

Curiouser and Curioser: Down the Rabbit Hole of the UNE-P Debate, Fat Pipe, December 2002 [PDF file: 1.45 mb]
Examining the MVDDS Business Case, Fat Pipe, November 2002 [PDF file: 1.15 mb]
The Third Path, Fat Pipe, August 2001 [PDF file: 0.2 mb]
Community LANs: Tomorrow's Public Roads?Unpublished full version, August 2001
Home Economics: Building a Base for Residential Broadband, Fat Pipe, February 2001 [PDF file: 0.6 mb]
Cable's Trip from Home to Office, Fat Pipe, December 2000
Bottlenecks, Bundles, and Walled Gardens: Cable's Broadband Strategy, Fat Pipe, November 2000
Fiber-Deep Broadband Overbuilders Challenge Incumbents, Lightwave, June 2000
Beyond Broadband, Advanced TV, June 2000 [PDF file: 0.2 mb]

Lightwave Broadband columns:

The Hype Cycle, May 2002
Digital services drive network evolution, March 2002
Who says science fiction and business don't mix?, January 2002
Making the case for FTTH, November 2001
Optical C-LANs: tomorrow's public road system?, September 2001
Fiber-to-the-farm, July 2001
Next step in HFC's evolution?, May 2001
Shifting gears in the race, March 2001
FTTH is evolving past the trial stage, January 2001
Digital solution for an analog environment, November 2000
The trouble with fiber-to-the-home, September 2000
The new economics of overbuilds, July 2000
Fiber-to-the-home--Why not now?, May 2000
Putting reliability issues in perspective, March 2000
New services boost fiber in Cox rings, January 2000


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