And less competition for all. RT @BenWinslow: RT @cressman: AT&T to Buy T-Mobile USA for $39 Billion – http://nyti.ms/f5esDh # 60% of broadband isn't. http://bit.ly/g7FkYO # Google makes moves into broadband mapping and ISP speed reporting. http://bit.ly/hcMJpO http://bit.ly/gtKc68 # Bell Canada admits what we all suspected: metering is about cashing… Continue reading
Today, it was announced that AT&T plans to buy up T-Mobile for a cool $39B. This would combine both nationwide GSM providers into the single largest wireless company in the country and bump us down to three such companies. A lot of fiber naysayers like to point to wireless as… Continue reading
Telecom picks up 6 of 32 nominations in Consumerists' Worst Company in America competition. http://bit.ly/hbNORP # In most cases, 4G really isn't. http://bit.ly/fze972 # Newspapers getting crushed by web sites. http://on.mash.to/haihB6 # Japan's earthquake still couldn't stop the Internet for more than a few hours, tops. http://bit.ly/gv24eE # Sprint: No,… Continue reading
Frontier jumps the FIOS install to $500 in hopes that it will help kill it off. http://bit.ly/dQVpEu # And @UTOPIAnet is wholesale. RT @Integra_Telecom: Fiber networks regain black-gold footing http://bit.ly/h5S4qe (via Denver Post) # Warner Bros. starts renting movies via Facebook. http://on.mash.to/g6SWIK # Your anonymous email and postings may not… Continue reading
I’ve received final word that Fuzecore has decided to leave UTOPIA and has sent its customers over to Xmission. Part of the problem for the Idaho-based provider is that there just weren’t enough customers available on the network to make things work, the same problem Prime Time Communications found itself… Continue reading
Small wired towns poised to take over the digital economy. http://bit.ly/dL879p # Verizon still sitting on its hands with FIOS deployments. http://bit.ly/dTnagw # Google starting to boot content farms from search results. http://on.mash.to/gKGqpT # 59% of USF money isn't spent on universal service. http://bit.ly/heVosk # DOCSIS 3.0 to pass 85M… Continue reading