Last week we noted that Google’s effort to deploy 1 Gbps fiber in Kansas City had run face first into some bureaucracy, with delays being caused over debate about pole fiber connection rates and the physical placement of lines. Google apparently believ…
The 80,000 or so residents of the town of Longmont, Colo. will have the chance to decide how a 17-mile fiber loop will be utilized to provide high-speed broadband service, after winning a referendum vote Tuesday to lift state restrictions on use of the…
A new Google initiative aims to get businesses to shape up their mobile sites, suggesting that in a few years, more people are going to be surfing on their phones than desktops.
France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) as a corporate brand may soon be no more as France’s incumbent telco may change the name completely to Orange as early as the summer of 2012.
Citing an internal memo, a La Tribune report revealed that France Telecom intends t…
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To make sure people know they’re trying to keep pace with 1 Gbps offerings by Sonic.net and Google, Comcast last week demonstrated a 1 Gbps connection. While this kind of speed is fun to talk about, most ISPs realize it’s really more of a marketing too…
Telco doesn’t mention Google’s nearby fiber network roll-out as a factor, but timing is curious
In a keynote discussion this morning with the head of Google’s fiber communities project: an exploration of what comes next for telecom carriers and rivals
Netflix may now have more customers than Comcast. http://bit.ly/eCB2Jf # Google wants to make money from its fiber project. http://bit.ly/f0QNR6 # Cisco predicts the death of the STB (video): http://bit.ly/iiPslJ # FCC: broadband sucks (and we won't admit that we caused a lot of it). http://bit.ly/hjGTug # 73% of you want a Carterphone ruling for [...]