Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Sticker Shock: Telecom Service Prices Rising All Over
Cox is doing it. So is Comcast. In fact, prices are rising all over the telecom industry as stock prices plummet and subscribers prove fickle (as AT&T found out with a loss of 3.9M landline customers so far this year). Many of them are also ramping up higher-speed tiers and premium services to pad the [...]
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
The Need for Speed: Comcast Plans to Up Speeds, Qwest Putting FTTN on Ice
As a sure sign that the souring economy is causing broadband issues, Qwest is planning to ramp down deployment of their FTTN-based ASDL2+ service. While one of their supplies cites the coming winter weather as the reason for the slow-down, but analysts are reading between the lines that plunging landline subscriptions paired with a slowing [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Cheers, Jeers, News by Jesse
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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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
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
Monday, July 14th, 2008
The Need for Speed: Comcast’s Plans to Squeeze More Bandwidth From Aging Copper
In the quest to prepare for DOCSIS 3.0 without undertaking the necessary step of replacing aging coax with fiber, Comcast has been playing around with several solutions designed to postpone the inevitable and squeeze more bandwidth from their copper turnip. The end result? Freeing up anywhere from 25% to 50% of their available bandwidth on [...]
25 Comments » - Posted in News by Jesse
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
iProvo D-Day Arrives with Deafening Silence
The deadline for Broadweave's takeover of iProvo has come and gone without much news or fanfare at all. In fact, other than the phone customers from Mstar, we don't know if any transition has taken place. Neither the Daily Herald nor Deseret News could reach Broadweave for comment and I know that Joe [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in News, iProvo by Jesse
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Comcast Makes Final Four in Comsumerist’s Worst Company in America 2008
Most companies would normally be excited to be a semi-finalist for an award, but not this time. Comcast has managed to bump off Menu Foods, The American Arbitration Association, Ticketmaster and even Exxon in its quest to become Worst Company in America 2008. It now faces off against Diebold, stealer of elections and maker of [...]
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Reflecting on Carterphone: Why Open Networks Are Needed
Bring up the term "regulation" and you're often going to think of heavy-handed mandates, byzantine rules and unresponsive bureaucracies. Despite this popular image of regulation, it sometimes works.
Ars Technica reminds us of the 40-year-old Carterphone decision that the FCC handed down 40 years ago yesterday. The landmark decision allowed third parties to start attaching [...]
