COMCAST IN SANTA ROSA
A year ago the city of Santa Rosa announced it had settled its dispute with Comcast and Internet service would be rolled out promptly. Last week Comcast announced that it had given up on trying to resolve its differences with the city, but it had installed sufficient...REGIONAL BELLS MANEUVER FOR MONOPOLY
USA Today has a story today about the efforts by the regional Bell companies to make it impossible – or at least expensive – to compete with them in building broadband networks across the country. It’s a potent combination of pressure on federal,...SONIC DIALUP ACCELERATOR
If you have a Sonic dialup account, you might want to look into free software from Sonic designed to accelerate your Internet connection. It can’t move bits across a phone line any faster, but it’s possible to create that impression by making local copies...BROADBAND OVER POWER LINES
Perhaps a glimpse of the future: this Slate article describes a company that has rolled out broadband Internet service over power lines to 16,000 homes in Cincinnati. (New acronym: BPL, broadband over power lines.) There have been daunting technical obstacles that...SATELLITE BROADBAND
Hughes Electronics has been struggling with Internet access by satellite for years. Although it can be better than dialup in rural areas with no other options, it’s been wildly unappealing for reasons I detail on this page. Hughes still feels left out by the...