For several months now, rumors have been swirling about that Verizon may attempt to purchase Qwest, a move that would put us one step closer to a reversal of the 1984 breakup of Ma Bell. Most cite Qwest’s switch to selling re-branded Verizon Wireless service as testing the waters. Qwest… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
Remember how Broadweave was operating without a business license in any city it did business in? It seems that despite having gotten licensed to do business in South Jordan and Provo, they still can’t get their ducks in a row in Washington City. Company lawyer Jay Cobb said that Broadweave… Continue reading
Popular Mechanics has an article about cable companies recompressing DTV signals. It also talks about bit rates and what makes HD look good or not. Hate being forced to rent your cable box? This guy does to so he filed a class action lawsuit calling it an antitrust law violation…. Continue reading
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… Continue reading
I had an interesting conversation recently with the director of operations at a company that is one of the big players in the telecommunications industry in Utah and this individual confirmed that they were working with UTOPIA to begin to sell their retail telecom service with a UTOPIA transport. When… Continue reading
The rumor mill says that Nuvont has decided not to sell their customer base to Broadweave and will continue to operate on both UTOPIA and iProvo. This would cause more problems for the new owner of iProvo since one of their key selling points was to control both the retail… Continue reading
The Deseret News recently ran an article on iProvo in which Mayor Billings claimed that iProvo is seeing a major turnaround under Broadweave’s direction. Certainly there are areas that have been improved drastically, live support being the most notable. Unfortunately, this improvement in response time has been at the cost… Continue reading
Just a quick note that August’s Utah County meeting of the UTOPIA Citizen’s Advisory Network will be held at the City Center building in Lindon at 4PM on Saturday the 23rd. Bring anyone who’s interested in UTOPIA or would like to help it succeed.
While Wednesdays edition news related. Today’s links would be about broadband policy. Where should we be going where are we going and how do we get there. A Blueprint for Big Broadband – This is a document that has been mentioned here before by me (Jonathan). I quite like it… Continue reading