The other day Virgin Mobile users let us know that the company was ditching unlimited data, imposing a 5GB cap on their previously-unlimited $40 broadband plan that if crossed — results in users being throttled to 256kbps. That’s really not all that b…
While policy leaders and large service providers theorize how they are going to expand broadband availability, Northwestern Indiana Telephone Co. is already on track to bring broadband services to 100 percent of its customers within a year, beating out the U.S. government’s mandate by three years. Arguably an ambitious initiative, the Obama administration’s American Recovery [...]
The New Zealand government has developed an ambitious broadband network plan and incumbent carrier Telecom New Zealand wants a piece of the action. However, the government said that service providers that run networks won’t be allowed to participate in the planned Ultra Fast Broadband Initiative, a national public-private national fiber network. Fearing that it would [...]
FairPoint Communications (FRCMQ.PK) reached another milestone this week in its ongoing restructuring process as creditors and lenders pledged support for the service provider’s Chapter 11 plan. During a hearing held at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, FairPoint said there weren’t any major objections to its plan, which would effectively put the control of the [...]
Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam today confirmed that Verizon is working with Google to develop a tablet computer designed to compete with AT&T and Apple’s iPad arrangement. Details are virtually non-existent, other than the fact it will probably launch sometime next year, likely run the Google Android OS, and utilize Verizon’s as-yet-unbuilt LTE network (at [...]
As we’ve explored, the pricing to use the iPad on AT&T’s network will cost you $15 for 250MB of usage, while unlimited usage will run you $30 a month (of course beware of those incredibly expensive overseas roaming charges). The nice thing is that the plans are no contract, and AT&T’s unlimited plan is truly [...]
Buried under the noise surrounding the FCC’s plan to reclassify (somewhat) broadband carriers yesterday was a new FCC report (pdf, via Telecompetitor) that attempts to put a price tag on how much it would cost to deliver broadband of at least 4 Mbps to the nation’s 14 million estimated unserved citizens. According to the report, [...]
As we’ve noted, the United States’ first ever national broadband plan certainly looks impressive at first glimpse, though on closer inspection the plan reveals itself to be a bevy of very politically-safe and rather toothless initiatives. Ignoring advice from their own studies, the FCC made it clear they couldn’t be bothered with things like building [...]
Colin Crowell, a major architect of the FCC’s broadband plan, will hand in his office keys in June to pursue life outside the public sector. His resignation, which was formally announced by the FCC on Monday, comes less than a year after taking the position of senior counselor to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. Although [...]