Monday, October 20th, 2008
Broadband Bytes: Monday Edition
There hasn’t been any news in the broadband world the last few weeks. Just kidding. Here are some “morsels” for you to chew on:
A local telco in Monticello, Minnesota (Bridgewater Telephone, child company of TDS Telecom) lost a suit against a city-built Fiber-to-the-Home network. (A project very similar to UTOPIA). The [...]
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Broadband Bytes: Weekend Edition
Today’s Broadband Bytes was brought to you by the letters C, W, and T.
Robert X. Cringely has some words to say about Comcast’s new bandwidth caps. He compares today’s caps to the caps he had years ago. Do they match up? Is Comcast offering a better deal than the ISP’s of the late 1990’s? [...]
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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 [...]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Welcome to New Members of the FreeUTOPIA Team!
I run into articles on telecommunications on a regular basis that I enjoy yet don’t seem to end up using in articles I publish. I got inspired by the Morning Edition posts at Utah Amicus and the Shortbread posts over at The Tech Report to find a good way to share them: a semi-regular “Broadband [...]
