President Obama got behind cities’ efforts to build their own municipal broadband networks calling for an end to the laws in what he said were 19 states that prevented or made… Read more »
Watch out Austin, your Google Fiber is getting closer. The search giant and burgeoning ISP shared a few details about it’s Texas construction so far. Read more »
Milo Medin is no longer the head of Google Fiber, although he is still with the company. Former Qualcomm executive Dennis Kish is now in charge. Read more »
Want the best broadband? Fiber to the home is increasingly the gold standard of high quality connectivity. Too bad more people can’t get it. Read more »
Verizon will upgrade its fiber-to-the-home service to symmetrical broadband connections at no extra charge for customers. That means customers get the same speeds when uploading data as they do downloading data… Read more »
Customers of AT&T’s GigaPower service could end up paying more than double the $29 advertised cost to keep Ma Bell from monitoring their web surfing if they elect to get video… Read more »
Yesterday Cox president Pat Esser, told Bloomberg the cable operator would deliver a gigabit network in some residential markets this year. The interview was cagey on how, but an Ars Technica… Read more »
Hey, Ma Bell! Your peering policies are so lame, your fiber network is slower than DSL! That’s essentially the insult that Netflix (S NFLX) is flinging at AT&T (S T) in… Read more »
Google Fiber started as a project to show how broadband could be improved in the U.S. On its earnings call yesterday its CFO shared a statement that shows it had accomplished… Read more »
Google Fiber won’t start connecting customers in Austin until much later this year. A local news station has discovered that and where Google has so far applied for permits. Read more »