SBC LOOKS FOR CONTROL

Nov 4, 2005 | broadband, business, phone

There is something about the communications industry that makes its executives go crazy – at our expense, and to our detriment. It happened to the CEO of Verizon in an interview in April (“Why in the world would you think your cell phone would work in your...

COMCAST PROBLEMS IN BAY AREA

Aug 6, 2005 | broadband

Comcast is having trouble with Internet service in the Bay Area. Problems began on August 2 and became widespread enough that Comcast was forced to admit it yesterday. Here’s a short article noting the problem but without any explanation from Comcast. The...

DSL PRICE WAR

Jun 2, 2005 | broadband

SBC lowered its promotional price for new DSL accounts to $14.95 – good for one year, only available if you order online and use SBC local phone service.(As always, if you order from Sonic, you get virtually the same price and far nicer people for sales and...

GOOGLE WEB ACCELERATOR

May 4, 2005 | broadband, Google

Google Web Accelerator just turned up today, and no one can quite figure it out. The Slashdot community is nonplussed.It’s a bit of software that takes your requests for web pages and serves them up from Google’s cache with compressed graphics and some...

COMCAST SPEED INCREASE

Mar 24, 2005 | broadband

Comcast has just about finished rolling out speed increases to its broadband customers nationwide. Most Comcast connections in the Bay Area got the increase in the last couple of days – download speed in Sebastopol is now 4Mbps instead of 3Mbps. For an extra ten...