When the Salt Lake Tribune published their story as to what’s going on with Prime Time Communications, they noted that they were unable to reach anyone for comment. Yours truly, however, scored a 40-minute phone interview with Bryon Wentzlaff, one of their VPs. From the sounds of things, it’s just… Continue reading
Looks like I’m a little late to the reporting party, but better late than never: Prime Time is getting booted from UTOPIA. Apparently the company filed bankruptcy for the MSTAR subsidiary on September 3 after having pulled $2.2M out of itmonths earlier. (Yeah, I’m not sure where the money came… Continue reading
Handset makers like Apple could usher in the dumb pipe. http://is.gd/hv0yP # A quarter of US pageviews are Facebook. http://is.gd/hv5cP # Frontier in denial about how much their network sucks. http://is.gd/hv5lU # Paid prioritization could actually be really, REALLY bad for ISPs. http://is.gd/hv9qW # New wireless service from Cox actually… Continue reading
Pew recently published some results of a survey on Internet use and came to the conclusion that most of us just don’t care about affordable broadband. Sadly, their conclusions in the summary are way off-base and very badly misread the data. The simple fact is that telecommunications policy still matters,… Continue reading
Does a competitive tech market end up in monopolies anyway? http://on.wsj.com/a50s6K # Phone calls are going the way of hand-written letters. http://tcrn.ch/cFPfDG # Facebook drops a new unified messaging system. I'll still to Google, thanks. http://lifehac.kr/9zNnjD # Demand for broadband bounces back. http://bit.ly/ctdwaS # Apple may kill MP3 with a… Continue reading
With or without Payson, UTOPIA is moving forward. http://is.gd/gOcHt # A lack of standards could leave carriers as dumb pipes. http://tcrn.ch/drpS7C # Muni nets exist because of a lack of investment; they are not a cause of it. http://bit.ly/a6SZ4W # FCC may push Lifeline service for broadband. http://bit.ly/bbAYu8 # Time… Continue reading
Cablevision caves to Fox demands. http://bit.ly/bjkneF # Firesheep is a much bigger problem them we all realize. Another reason to go wired instead of wireless. http://bit.ly/9AU1Pz # Another new streaming games service emerges. And I wonder how much bandwidth it will require. http://bit.ly/96afU6 # If ISPs listen to Craig Moffett,… Continue reading
Good news: the forums are back! The bad news? None of the data from the old forum could be migrated due to the failed upgrade that tanked them in the first place. If you want to post on the forum, you’ll need to re-register an account. If you want to… Continue reading