Comments on: Broadband Bias? http://gigaom.com/2005/02/09/broadband-bias/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: GigaOM Ready for Boston TiVo Party? « http://gigaom.com/2005/02/09/broadband-bias/#comment-100265 Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:11:46 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/02/09/broadband-bias/#comment-100265 [...] of the year. What is most interesting about this news is that Comcast is rolling out TiVo service in a region where it is locked in a fierce battle with Verizon & its FiOS service. Share This | Sphere | Print | Topic: [...]

]]> By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2005/02/09/broadband-bias/#comment-100264 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/02/09/broadband-bias/#comment-100264 This is clearly the other side of the coin to the whole leave the network building to the for-profit corporations.

On a completely unrelated note, these same rich white communities tend to have poor cell coverage thanks to NIMBY atitudes about towers. It’s just lucky Verizon already has the right of ways to string its fiber, otherwise I’m not sure FIOS would ever get off the ground. Wanting broadband at home doesn’t prevent people from wanting to not be inconvienced by work crews blocking lanes.

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