http://www.freeutopia.org/2009/01/24/broadband-bytes-january-17-23-2009/ Municipal fiber advocacy at its finest. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:22:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.freeutopia.org/2009/01/24/broadband-bytes-january-17-23-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-8447 Tanya Campbell Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:17:21 +0000 http://www.freeutopia.org/?p=533#comment-8447 With regards to the Verizon Hub it looks pretty interesting even though Verizon is supposedly working to just create lock in with this since I understand you MUST be a Verizon Wireless customer to even buy the device. According to Experts123 the phone is going on sale tomorrow at Verizon Wireless stores. <a href='http://www.experts123.com/q/what-is-the-verizon-hub.html' rel="nofollow"> With regards to the Verizon Hub it looks pretty interesting even though Verizon is supposedly working to just create lock in with this since I understand you MUST be a Verizon Wireless customer to even buy the device. According to Experts123 the phone is going on sale tomorrow at Verizon Wireless stores.

]]> http://www.freeutopia.org/2009/01/24/broadband-bytes-january-17-23-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-8413 luminous Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:57:21 +0000 http://www.freeutopia.org/?p=533#comment-8413 Delaying the digital switchover now is idiocy, comcast, Retail chains and others will exploit the confusion to sell services people don't need. AT&T is in support of the delay purely because it will hurt their competitors(verizon mostly) who are closer to being able to deploy then they are. Further verizon would clearly have grounds to sue the fed government over lose of profit from the delay. now they are talking about dumping more money into the tv converter coupon program, it was my understand that it was supposed to be a limited first come first serv tell then run out style of setup. The people who have not yet converted won't convert until their tv's go blank. Their are stations that will shutdown their analog on feb 17 because they haven't budgeted transmission beyond that date and in this tight economy they can't afford to spend any more then they have to no matter what. well i suppose that could be solved with yet another bailout which is just about the last thing we need atm. Delaying the digital switchover now is idiocy, comcast, Retail chains and others will exploit the confusion to sell services people don’t need. AT&T is in support of the delay purely because it will hurt their competitors(verizon mostly) who are closer to being able to deploy then they are. Further verizon would clearly have grounds to sue the fed government over lose of profit from the delay. now they are talking about dumping more money into the tv converter coupon program, it was my understand that it was supposed to be a limited first come first serv tell then run out style of setup. The people who have not yet converted won’t convert until their tv’s go blank. Their are stations that will shutdown their analog on feb 17 because they haven’t budgeted transmission beyond that date and in this tight economy they can’t afford to spend any more then they have to no matter what. well i suppose that could be solved with yet another bailout which is just about the last thing we need atm.

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