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Expanding rural broadband an expensive, slow-moving debate

Some support wiring — pricey but high-capacity — fiber-optic cables into every ... Available for mail delivery or pick-up. “It was slow,” Miller said. “And sometimes we’d go mornings without any ... read more

AT&T explores expansion of super-fast Internet

Verizon serves much of that area and has been offering its own fiber-optics service, FiOS, though its top speed is at half of what AT&T is planning. Verizon said that although it hasn't seen ... read more

The Digital Divide Will Ensure a Broadband Ghetto

Since the FCC can’t get it done through the Broadband Plan (it isn’t even trying) and Congress decided not to get it done with the stimulus money (a few fiber projects were approved), then it’s up to ... read more

Fed up with slow and pricey Internet, cities start demanding gigabit fiber

Slow Internet speeds and a lack of competitive pressure on Internet providers is a fact of life in communities throughout America. We've seen that competition can make a difference, notably with the ... read more

Sunset of a Blog

I was still near the start ... towns, cities and counties promoted large-scale Wi-Fi networks built for indoor and outdoor use. Right-wing, bought-and-paid-for thinktanks created several negative ... read more

AT&T's (T) CEO Randall Stephenson Presents at the 45th Annual J.P. Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom Conference Transcript

We put 200,000 subscribers up in December, which was much faster than we are wanting to go and so we kind of pulled back, but the reality was that the demand ... deploy more fiber in some areas where ... read more

Netflix CEO Agrees 25 Mbps Should Be The New Baseline

For what it's worth, Netflix agrees -- company CEO Reed Hastings stating that the shift to 4K video makes 25 Mbps a more comfortable "normal": quote: While any speed bump would be welcome by any OTT ... read more

NZ brings FTTP costs down to FTTN levels

The Chorus executive said that the company’s experience was that deploying FTTP was almost more expensive at the start, before it went through a ... “Keeping things simple allows the build program to ... read more

Apple’s next-gen iPhones said to lack 5G modem to match rivals’ data speed

“Verizon Corp., AT&T Inc. and the rest of the U.S. wireless industry have a big boast for this year’s crop of smartphones: thanks to network upgrades, devices will be able to download as much as a ... read more

AT&T explores expansion of super-fast Internet

Verizon serves much of that area and has been offering its own fiber-optics service, FiOS, though its top speed is at half of what AT&T is planning. Verizon said that although it hasn’t seen ... read more