The whole world is sucking down mobile data like it’s water
10X growth in five years
We may be pushing more of our cellular activity over to Wi-Fi, but we’re still guzzling mobile data like it’s going out…
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UK’s BT lays out gigabit broadband plans with a hint of a threat
Regulate it our way, OK?
BT is stepping up its superlatives. “Superfast” broadband speeds are so 2014 – now the British telecoms giant is planning a shift…
More cities call for control of their broadband destiny, as FCC looks at states’ power to overrule them
Should cities have the right to determine their own internet policies? A new coalition from across the country has formed to argue for faster broadband speeds.
Is this the sound of Comcast’s merger hopes dying? FCC Chairman declares U.S. broadband uncompetitive
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler says the U.S. lacks meaningful broadband competition and proposes a few vague solutions while also calling for higher speeds.
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Verizon FiOS gives customers a boost on upload speeds
Verizon will upgrade its fiber-to-the-home service to symmetrical broadband connections at no extra charge for customers. That means customers get the same…
Time Warner Cable starts offering 300 Mbps in Austin in June
Austin, the home of three future gigabit networks from Google (residents can’t sign up for it yet); AT&T (currently limited in the…
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Cox wants to deliver a gig, so how does cable take on fiber?
Yesterday Cox president Pat Esser, told Bloomberg the cable operator would deliver a gigabit network in some residential markets this year. The…
The National Science Foundation gets behind gigabit innovation with a new fund
Mozilla and the National Science Foundation have created a $300,000 Gigabit Community Fund, to help support people in Kansas City, Kan. and…
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Gigabit Squared co-founder and former president resigns amid questions over Seattle deal
The former president and co-founder of Gigabit Squared, a company that has apparently lost a contract to help bring gigabit broadband to Seattle, has resigned from any role in the company’s operations.
Bitcoin no longer bunk? AT&T wants to peek at your searches, and Verizon’s LTE Kaiju!
Will the $25M in Coinbase shift thinking on Bitcoin? Would you let AT&T spy on you for cheap braodband? And Verizon lights up LTE networks.
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Here’s how AT&T is going to build its gigabit service in Austin
As AT&T preps its fiber to the home launch in austin, we offer a lowdown on the technologies it plans to use to eventually deliver a gigabit.
Comcast backs challenger to mayor who brought gigabit broadband to Seattle
The Washington Post followed the trail of Comcast’s campaign donations in the Seattle mayoral race and discovered that the ISP was backing…
More proof that without competition U.S. broadband costs more and delivers less
A new report shows us once again that U.S. customers pay more money for less broadband than many other cities in the world. The conclusion is we need more competition.
Look it’s the next generation network! Comcast tests a 1 Tbps link
As our devices multiply and our home broadband (and mobile) connections get faster the middle mile and backhaul networks have to keep up. That’s why Comcast’s test of a 1-terabit-per-second network matters.
AT&T will sell your 300 Mbps broadband for $199 a month. Maybe! Someday! Soon!
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Website-Glitch-Reveals-New-UVerse-Tiers-Pricing-126291 AT&T is probably/maybe going to introduce higher speed broadband tiers, according to leaked information via a website glitch reported by DSL…
What happens in Vegas will now happen at gigabit speeds
CenturyLink is expanding its gigabit network pilot program to Las Vegas. And in a price reversal, getting a gig and TV will cost you $20 less than buying a stand-alone gigabit connection.
Holy hot spots! Time Warner Cable unveils Austin Wi-Fi network
With the looming threat of not-one, but two, gigabit networks planned for Austin, Texas, Time Warner Cable has announced that it has…
And the gigabit train rolls on: France’s Free launches gigabit service
Illiad, the company behind the Free mobile and Free broadband services, is upgrading its top tier of service to offer one gigabit downstream and 200 Mbps up.
C Spire announces competition to deliver gigabit service to a Mississippi community
Rural wireless provider C Spire is taking a page from Google and announcing a contest to offer a gigabit fiber-to-the-home network for a Mississippi town. It’s not as odd as you might think.
Chattanooga paper fires columnist who blasted the president & lamented gigabit fiber
Drew Johnson, a columnist for Chattanooga Free-Press newspaper, recently wrote an editorial that blasted President Obama, “Take your jobs plan and shove…
Finding Google fiber in your own back yard
Instead of being jealous of towns getting Google Fiber, municipalities should look not to Google, but to local businesses that might want broadband badly enough to help play the same role.
Podcast: Bitcoins bite the dust? Uh-oh, Aereo and Austin’s fiber
Whether you think they are a Ponzi scheme or the future of money, Bitcoins were all over the news this week as…
Take that, Google: AT&T ups the ante with plans for its own Austin gigabit network
Hot on the heels of Google announcing plans to build a gigabit fiber to the home network in Austin, AT&T has said it plans to do the same.
The real Gigabit Challenge is getting ISPs to think like tech firms
Forget getting a gigabit in one city in all 50 states of the U.S. The real gigabit challenge is helping the existing ISPs think like innovators, not like utilities.
My conversation with ex-Facebook CTO and Quora co-founder Adam D’Angelo
Former Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo believes that the future is about creating more knowledge and adding a layer of reputation to the fast-growing internet. And that is why he started Quora, his first real attempt at being a startup CEO.
Bristol, another Tennessee town is getting Gigabit broadband
With current broadband market is essentially a comfortable duopoly of cable and telecom operators with little competitive pressure that leads to forward looking features. It is no surprise that cities are looking to take matters in their own hands taking a cue from Bristol, Tennessee.
How RST Global is building an underground fiber network at half the cost
Fiber network are costly, in part because digging trenches to lay the conduit are so expensive. Stringing fiber along telephone poles is cheaper, but has its own issues. A new company claims its drill digs a fiber trench for the cost of an aerial deployment.
Now it gets interesting: How to build a social contract for broadband
History demonstrates that in order to build world-class infrastructure, be it railroads or electricity, a mutually beneficial commitment between communities and the providers of that infrastructure is, and has always been, essential. It is no different for communications.
Have an opinion on broadband caps? Speeds? Tell the FCC.
The FCC doesn’t seem to realize it’s summer. The regulatory agency has been issuing decisions like crazy. And this week it also released a series of questions that indicate the FCC is thinking about the need for faster broadband speeds and questioning caps.
Who’s driving your broadband bus?
Want to control your community’s broadband? Then you you have to own the process that determines how the technology is used, as Kansas City might be learning to its chagrin after Google didn’t seem keen a proposal for community Wi-Fi in one section of the city.
Touchdown! Florida Gators get gigabit broadband.
Residents of a small section of Gainesville, Fla. will get a gigabit network thanks to the GigU project that wants to deliver fiber to the home to areas around U.S. colleges and universities.
Maybe it’s time to rethink how we fund broadband
Last week’s announcement that a $200 million broadband investment fund is in play courtesy of Gigabit Squared is part of a quiet trend of communities searching for new ways to fund broadband. From promissory notes to bonds, towns are building networks in new ways.
Updated: Say what? Google’s gigabit network won’t deliver a gig?
When is a gigabit not a gigabit? Perhaps when it’s Google’s gigabit network? Speaking today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Google’s Chairman Eric Schmidt said that the company’s planned fiber to the home network will deliver sustained speeds of between 300 to 500 Mbps.
Hey, speed demons! San Francisco to get a gig!
Sonic.net, an independent ISP in San Francisco, plans to roll out a gigabit network to the city, putting the hub of today’s tech and web community on equal footing with Chattanooga, Tenn., and eventually both sides of Kansas City, where Google plans to lay fiber.
Verizon upgrades network for a 100 gig world
Long-haul networks aren’t the only pipes getting 100 gigabit upgrades these days. On Tuesday Verizon said it is upgrading the metro networks in at least seven U.S. cities to meet the demand for broadband at the edge. Looks like we’re closing in on the terabit age.
D.C.: We’ll see your 1 Gig, raise you 100 Gig
One of the benefits of D.C.’s 100 gigabit network is that it should open eyes to the importance of middle mile infrastructure, but it’s not clear how many last mile projects will spring up to connect to it. How DC-CAN resolves this could influence federal policy.
D.C. gets 100 gigabit network, maybe politicos will finally get broadband
Washington D.C. went live with the first link of a 100-gigabit network Wednesday. The new network, called the D.C. Community Access Network, will provide links out to communities east of the Anacostia River, but the ultra-high-speed network will soon serve the entire District.
The first gigabit Wi-Fi chip for consumer devices is here
Quantenna, a startup building chips for sending massive data over Wi-Fi, has built the first gigabit chip for Wi-Fi networks and devices. The chip is available now for use in routers, home gateways and even consumer gadgets. Products containing the chips could arrive in 2012.
You’ve got a gigabit network, so now what?
Two news headlines of note this week highlight the challenges of getting what you wish for, especially if what you wished for is a gigabit network. One shows a community that’s reached a broadband objective, the latter reflects another’s uncertainty about what its objectives are.
UK’s Hyperoptic on how to get gigabit to the home
Britain’s broadband market used to be widely lauded for its combination of high speeds and low prices, something achieved through a mixture…
London’s CityFibre to build a $800 million gigabit network
CityFibre, a London-based telecom operator, wants to raise $800 million to build a fiber-to-the-home network and compete with British Telecom in the race to wire up Britain with super-fast networks. It’s one of the many upstarts with big dreams for big and fast networks.
Get your gig on, developers!
The folks at the Kauffman Foundation have teamed up with Google to create a portal where folks can submit their ideas for gigabit application that could use the proposed fiber to the home network that Google plans to build in both Kansas Cities. Lucky them.
Getting to multi-gigabit wireless. Yes gigabit!
Sure, Sprint will deliver LTE-Advanced in 2013, a standard that can offer gigabit speeds on fixed networks, but Samsung is talking about ways we can get multi-gigabit wireless networks. These are wireless networks that are faster than today’s wired ones.
A Tale of Two Kansas Cities and Google
Last week I visited two Kansas Cities – in Kansas and Missouri – on a broadband site visit. When I went to Chattanooga, Tenn., I got an “after” picture of what communities can do with a gigabit. The Kansas City trip was about figuring out the “before.”
What a Gigabit Network Can Do? Find Out
Two days in Chattanooga, Tenn. show how a municipal broadband network can pay dividends when community leaders focus on the applications a gigabit network can deliver and consider the long-term economic development potential. And yes, it can even generate enough revenue to become profitable.
Why Chattanooga Represents Broadband’s Future
Last September Chattanooga, Tenn.’s public utility (EPB) announced the first gigabit broadband service in the U.S. To fully grasp the economic power of true broadband, community leaders and broadband champions need look under the hood to get the inside scoop.Here’s what gigabit networks can do.
