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? [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Broadband Bytes by Jonathan
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Frontier Guarantees Mass Migration to UTOPIA in Tremonton with New 5GB Monthly Cap
Frontier Communications, the incumbent phone carrier in Tremonton, has decided to give UTOPIA a helping hand by implementing a 5GB monthly cap on all of their DSL customers to drive them into the arms of a competitor. By comparison, the lowest cap available from a UTOPIA provider is 20 times that at 100GB per month. [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Jeers, News, UTOPIA by Jesse
Friday, June 20th, 2008
The Need for Speed: Comcast, Verizon Start Boosting Bandwidth
The race for the speed crown continues as Verizon rolls out 50Mbps/20Mbps service to all of its current FIOS customers. The super-fast tier of service comes at a price of around $150/month, not far off from what Qwest is charging for inferior 20Mbps/896Kbps DSL service. This also prepares Verizon for a fight to the [...]
