Archive for September 2nd, 2010
Sure, incumbent lobbyists and dysfunctional regulators may have crushed the majority of major, independent, residential broadband ISPs in the United States, but California-based ISP Sonic.net not only survived the indie ISP-pocalypse, but they’re busily building their own network. As we’ve covered for years, Sonic’s offering ADSL2+ (bonded, when possible) capable of providing speeds up to [...]
Consumer group Free Press is apparently hitting some of AT&T’s buttons this week, if this missive from AT&T lobbyist Hank Hultquist is any indication. Hultquist this week attacked the consumer group as a purveyor of “Da Vinci Code conspiracy theories” for a recent letter the group wrote to the FCC that points out how AT&T’s [...]
French competitive broadband carrier Free is making an aggressive IPv6 push with Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) that will serve more than four million of its broadband customers. By deploying Cisco’s IPv6 6rd Border Relay technology solution, Free is preparing for and mitigating the impending exhaustion of IPv4 addresses, while preparing its network to support the ongoing [...]
With approval for a National Broadband Plan being punted around by Australia’s ruling body like a muddy football, a group of network and Internet companies have taken matters into their own hands and published a manifesto calling for a market solution to broadband expansion–not an “infrastructure monopoly.” The Alliance for Affordable Broadband’s open letter, titled [...]
With Carlos Slim’s consolidation of his Telmex Internacional (NYSE: TII) and America Movil (NYSE: AMX) holdings now complete, Telmex is going to turn its attention to upgrading its wireline broadband network with up to 20 Mbps speed capabilities to more effectively compete with cable competitors. To make this speed jump, Telmex will leverage the majority of its 2010 [...]
For many people in our forums, Verizon’s new announcement of 15 Mbps ADSL2+ service doesn’t mean a whole lot, given they’re beyond the 7,000 foot range the service is restricted to. Many are already barely able to get 1.5 Mbps downstream; Rob Pegoraro of the Washington Post tested the addresses of thirteen friends in the [...]