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Will Poor People Get Google Fiber?
FiOS installed in Montclair, New Jersey (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This was a great question that was posed by a recent article in Forbes Magazine. In this country we have a long history of having...
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What’s Up With Verizon?
1980s Dodge Ram Van Verizon (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I have another story to tell about my friend Danny. He runs an accounting firm in northern Virginia and he looks a lot like a ton of other small...
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Make it Faster
Cable modem Motorola SurfBoard for broadband internet (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Whenever I look at my client’s data products I almost have the same advice – make it faster. I am constantly surprised to...
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Google and the NFL
The new NFL logo went into use at the 2008 draft. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Google has announced that it is interested in buying the Sunday package from the NFL to stream over the web. For those of you...
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We Don’t Have Enough Bandwidth
I read three different articles Friday that have a common theme – we just don’t have enough bandwidth in this country. The first article from the Fiber To The Home Council which reports on a recent...
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Where are the Verizon Profits?
Verizon Wireless “Rule the Air” Ad Campaign (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’ve been reading over the last few weeks about the controversy surrounding Verizon’s profitability in its wireless versus wireline...
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The Explosion of WiFi
Wi-Fi Signal logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) WiFi has been around since the mid 90’s as a local wireless data connection. WiFi products grew somewhat slowly with the two primary uses being external WiFi...
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Don’t Be the Big Guys
Large telco and cable companies took a pretty good beating in the press in 2013. There were tons of articles that don’t present them in a very good light. For all of my clients and friends in the...
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Do the Big Companies Even Want to Get it Right?
The latest Consumer Reports rankings are out for telecom providers, and the results are much the same as in past years. There are many different groups that rate companies and we often hear of reports...
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Broadband in Big Cities
I’ve often written about the issues with rural broadband, but today I thought I would take a look at the state of broadband in the large cities. As people read and hear about Google and other fiber...
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Reinvesting in Rural America
Over the last few weeks C-Spire has begun rolling out gigabit fiber in Mississippi. Unlike Google which is mostly concentrating on large and fast-growing cities, C-Spire is rolling fiber out to small...
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How We Love to Hate the Large ISPs
I have read a number of articles lately that reminded me of the love / hate relationship that Americans generally have with the large ISPs. Here is a summary of some of these stories. Americans Pay...
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A Few Shorts for Friday
I’ve accumulated a few topics that don’t merit a full blog, but which I thought were worth a mention: NSA a Source of Malware. News came out last week as part of the Edward Snowden documents that the...
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CenturyLink Bullish on Fiber
At a time when AT&T wants to ditch millions of copper lines, and when Verizon apparently want to phase out of the wireline business and is even selling off FiOS, CenturyLink is taking a different...
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The Gigabit Dilemma
Cox recently filed a lawsuit against the City of Tempe, Arizona for giving Google more preferable terms as a cable TV provider than what Cox has in their franchise with the city. Tempe undertook the...
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State Commissions and Broadband
Frontier and the California commission have been negotiating a deal that lays out the terms that will allow Frontier to buy a pile of California customers from Verizon. Basically, as will be detailed...
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The Future for Cord Cutters
I read an article by Nathan McAlone in Business Insider that opined that people are going to look back five years from now and wish for the good old days of the big cable packages. I suspect for many...
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Fiber is Not Always Fiber
I had a conversation today that is the same one I’ve had many times. I was talking to a City that has already built hundreds of miles of fiber to connect municipal buildings. They were shocked to hear...
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Fiber for Everyone?
Just a few days ago I wrote about the two cities that are considering having citizens pay for their fiber networks through utility fees and pledges to support the fiber financing. After writing about...
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Investing in Fiber
There is a recent short article in Forbes titled, To Evade the Wheeler Tax, Capital is Fleeing Digital Infrastructure by Hal Singer. The premise of the article is that the FCC’s move to regulate...
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