Comcast Bringing Super-Fast Fiber Network To Silicon Valley & Other...
(Christopher.V)Two weeks after Comcast announced that Atlanta would be the first market to get its new Gigabit Pro fiber service — which promises speeds of up to twice that of Google Fiber — the...
View ArticleAT&T Claims That DirecTV Merger Will Allow It To Expand GigaPower Fiber Network
While we’ve been critical of the Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger, the motivation behind that deal is clear: It would instantly add 10 million customers to Comcast’s bottom line and give the company...
View ArticleAT&T Claims 11.7M People Could Get Gigabit Fiber If DirecTV Merger Approved
(frankieleon) AT&T and DirecTV are still hoping their mega-merger is on track for approval. While they wait, the FCC has been asking them to clarify some of their earlier statements about why this...
View ArticleComcast To Begin Testing Super-Fast Cable Broadband This Year
(honeylamb)Most talk of new high-speed broadband has revolved around Internet service providers laying new networks of fiberoptic cable to deliver download speeds of 1Gbps or more, but Comcast says it...
View ArticleExperimental Verizon FiOS Service Would Be 10X Speed Of Google Fiber
With Google Fiber continuing to expand, offering gigabit broadband service for a reasonable price, some Internet service providers are feeling the heat and beginning to test networks that would blow...
View ArticleComcast Hopes To Deploy Multi-Gigabit Broadband By 2018
(Mike Mozart)Earlier this summer, Comcast revealed that it will soon be testing an upgrade to its cable broadband network that should allow it to deliver download speeds of up to 10Gbps, ten times the...
View ArticleNorth Carolina City Is First To Offer Internet Service That’s 10 Times Faster...
(Courtesy: Fibrant)While Google is in the process of deploying high-speed gigabit Internet service in North Carolina’s major metro areas of Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham, the folks in the much smaller...
View ArticleSmall Massachusetts Town Offers Gigabit Internet For $75/Month
As Comcast rolls out its superfast 2 gigabit fiber service for $300/month — not to mention upwards of $1,000 in startup costs — yet another municipally owned broadband service is offering similar...
View ArticleThanks To Google Fiber And AT&T, Comcast Gigabit Service Will Only Cost $70...
Earlier this year, Comcast announced that Atlanta would be one of the five markets to get a taste of new broadband technology that provides fiberoptic-level data speeds over existing cable lines. And...
View ArticleComcast ‘Introduces’ Gigabit Fiber To City That’s Already Had It For 7 Years
Chattanooga, TN, has a gigabit fiber network that is basically the nation’s poster child for successful public broadband investment. Former FCC chair Tom Wheeler literally held it up as the example of...
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