Archive for May, 2007
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Meeting with DynamicCity
I was invited to pay a visit to the offices of DynamicCity last Friday to talk about what can be done to help spread UTOPIA. (For those that don't know, this is the company in charge of building the physical plant for UTOPIA.) A special thanks to Joel, Cory and Keith for taking time out [...]
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Earthlink Scaling Back Muni WiFi on Big Losses
With low take rates, political spats and pesky introductory discount rates, Earthlink posted a $30M loss for Q1 blamed on a shrinking dial-up business and expensive WiFi rollouts. With just 2,000 regular subscribers, a handful of government contracts and the upcoming auction of the lucrative 700MHz spectrum by the FCC, Earthlink is poised to bleed [...]
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Latest Provo Budget Shows Future of iProvo
Provo Mayor Lewis Billings rolled out a new city budget where iProvo funding takes center stage. The city plans to loan an additional $1M to the project to cover bond payments while seeking additional service providers and pushing additional commercial accounts. Signing up businesses for iProvo service will be critical since commercial accounts are willing [...]
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Companies Building Fiber Punished By Short-Sighted Investors
It's earnings report season, and it looks like the short-term thinking of investors has been ruling the day with telcos. Verizon has watched earnings tumble as they make significant investments in their FIOS system while Qwest tripled their profits by building a whole lot of nothing and cutting retirement benefits. Investors have reacted accordingly to [...]
