TAUZIN/DINGELL PASSES

Feb 27, 2002 | broadband, Politics

According to the Center for Responsible Politics, the Bells – Qwest, BellSouth, SBC Communications and Verizon – have contributed about $19.4 million to congressional campaigns since 1999. Slightly less huge companies such as AT&T, Sprint and Worldcom...

CONGRESS VOTES WEDNESDAY ON CRITICAL BILL

Feb 25, 2002 | broadband, law

On Wednesday Congress will vote on a bill known as Tauzin/Dingell (after its sponsors). It would eliminate all the requirements on the four remaining Baby Bells to play fair with competing telecom providers. It’s instant death for Covad and all other DSL...

XO COMMUNICATIONS TO FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY

Feb 22, 2002 | broadband, business

It was reported yesterday that XO Communications (the successor to Concentric Networks) expects to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy within two weeks. No information is available yet on whether this will affect XO’s customers for dialup access, DSL, or web site...

WHY DSL STILL SUCKS

Jan 17, 2002 | broadband

DSL is in terrible shape. Many people have persistent problems – lines disconnect or go down, tech support is poor or nonexistent, orders are handled slowly. Here’s a good article with some background on how DSL lines work and some theories on why...

AOL AND BROADBAND

Dec 15, 2001 | broadband

Click here for a video of AOL Time Warner COO Robert Pittman delivering the keynote address at Internet World. He lists the ways AOL can profit by offering broadband services to its subscribers, and describes the company’s vision of transforming AOL’s...

AT&T SCREWS CABLE SUBSCRIBERS IN NEW WAYS

Dec 6, 2001 | broadband

AT&T bears a heavy burden of responsibility for the Excite@Home debacle. You might think they’d hide out for a while – but no! They have new ideas to make people even more angry. First, it became clear right away that the service it rolled out this...