Comments on: Why you will need a 300 Mbps broadband connection

By: Craig Settles

Craig Settles — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:22:16 +0000

To your 3rd point, this is why communities are creating their own ways to fund broadband – http://bit.ly/KAP16I. Unless and until many currently un-served communities do so, they will never have a chance at true broadband.

By: Craig Settles

Craig Settles — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:18:28 +0000

Um, because there’s no money in those areas? Probably Self Interest 101 at work here. Doesn’t make it right, but it’s helpful for everyone to be clear what the real deal is here. And while we’re on the subject, a source of some of this problem is that many of our politicians don’t have a backbone either.

By: Jason Russell

Jason Russell — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:52:54 +0000

My company just launched a 1-gig service for $299 a month. Looks pretty good compared to this offer.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:10:37 +0000

Couple of take aways from this.

1. Verizon FIOS is no longer being rolled out beyond back filling existing service areas. That means for most Verizon customers who currently do not have it, will never get it.

2. Because of the way Telecos and Cable is run, they face no real competition. Therefore providers like AT&T on the Teleco side and Comcast/Brighthouse on the cable side have no incentive to increase/improve their aging infrastructure.

3. Finally many Americans are never going to have access to speeds above 6mb/256K (DSL) because there is no way to get private industry to provide better service.

By: Aleksandar Tasev

Aleksandar Tasev — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:30:58 +0000

Mpeg-4 HDTV takes about 10Mbps. Why 300Mbps?

By: C0RR0SIVE

C0RR0SIVE — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:20:23 +0000

This stuff is starting to make me sick… Companies are pushing speeds in areas where equipment exists, then complain that they don’t have enough of a backbone. If they can expand in areas like that, why don’t companies at least try to expand where NO service exists?

By: David

David — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 17:47:14 +0000

“She says that about 55 percent of Verizon FiOS customers now take the 50 or 75 Mbps speed option with a mere 15 percent taking the 150 Mbps tier.”.

Ummm, I’m going to call a mighty BS on that claim!

By: sinithwar

sinithwar — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 17:23:17 +0000

Broadband width means nothing if there’s not a good ping or if it’s a bad cord.

By: Gary Xyzabc

Gary Xyzabc — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:24:13 +0000

Still, this new speed tier comes on the heels of much anti-competitive corporate behavior so there still is a mixed message here. We’re offering you more, but we’ll give you fewer or NO options to paying less money (and by proxy a better value) in the marketplace.

By: don

don — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:38:25 +0000

That’s pricey but it’s not like superfast broadband tiers don’t cost a lost when they first hit the market.

An extra ‘s’ in there?