Archive for August, 2008
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
iProvo Deal Closes: Sorenson Gone, EsNet Takes Their Place
Seems that the rumors were true: Sorenson took a long, hard look at the sale of iProvo to Broadweave and said “no thanks”. Despite this, Broadweave managed to line up alternate funding that appears to be an amalgation of EsNet and some of Broadweave’s existing investors including Fraser Bullock of Sorenson. Broadweave is playing thier [...]
17 Comments » - Posted in News, iProvo by Jesse
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Broadband Bytes: Thursday Edition
Comcast will start capping their data transfer caps at 250Gig per month on Oct 1st.
Dish Network has started offering HD and SD content in MPEG4 format. Other providers cable and DirectTV are only providing HD content in MPEG4 format.
Qwest is trying to get Comcast taxed as a telco here in Utah.
Google says they need [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Broadband Bytes, News by Jonathan
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Comcast Caps to Begin in October, Set at 250GB per Month
BroadbandReports broke it and Comcast confirmed it: starting on October 1, Comcast will institute caps of 250GB per month. It’s beleived that overage fees are off the table for now, a welcome change from the initial plan to charge $1.50 per GB, a markup of around 100 times cost. There’s also a concrete DMCA policy. [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in News by Jesse
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Qwest and Verizon Sittin’ in a Tree… M-E-R-G-I-N-G?
For several months now, rumors have been swirling about that Verizon may attempt to purchase Qwest, a move that would put us one step closer to a reversal of the 1984 breakup of Ma Bell. Most cite Qwest’s switch to selling re-branded Verizon Wireless service as testing the waters. Qwest is also in a weak [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in News, Rumors by Jesse
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Broadband Bytes: Weekend Edition
Qwest announced key leadership changes in Sales and IT. The link includes some background about each of the new executives that have been chosen. I’m hoping the new leaders will realize the importance of bringing telecommunications into the 21st century by investing in infrastructure like Verizon has been doing and understand the increasing [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Broadband Bytes by Mike Taylor
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Broadweave’s Business License Issues Continue
Remember how Broadweave was operating without a business license in any city it did business in? It seems that despite having gotten licensed to do business in South Jordan and Provo, they still can’t get their ducks in a row in Washington City. Company lawyer Jay Cobb said that Broadweave through they had the matter [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Jeers, News by Jesse
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Broadband Bytes: Wednesday Edition
Popular Mechanics has an article about cable companies recompressing DTV signals. It also talks about bit rates and what makes HD look good or not.
Hate being forced to rent your cable box? This guy does to so he filed a class action lawsuit calling it an antitrust law violation. This would be one to watch [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in Broadband Bytes by Jonathan
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Broadband Bytes: Weekend Edition
Could things get ugly at Qwest? They still have not reached a labor agreement with the Communications Workers of America. Those 20,000 workers could begin a strike as early as Sunday (tomorrow), the day their existing contract expires.
“The U.S. may be winning world speed records in swimming at the Olympics, but not in average [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Broadband Bytes by Mike Taylor
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Rumor: New UTOPIA Providers
I had an interesting conversation recently with the director of operations at a company that is one of the big players in the telecommunications industry in Utah and this individual confirmed that they were working with UTOPIA to begin to sell their retail telecom service with a UTOPIA transport. When asked when they would start [...]
34 Comments » - Posted in Rumors, UTOPIA by Mike Taylor
Friday, August 15th, 2008
Rumor: Nuvont Won’t Sell Customers to Broadweave
The rumor mill says that Nuvont has decided not to sell their customer base to Broadweave and will continue to operate on both UTOPIA and iProvo. This would cause more problems for the new owner of iProvo since one of their key selling points was to control both the retail and wholesale aspects of the [...]
