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FCC Chair Wants Gigabit Internet Access In All 50 States By 2015
This is not a photo of me (I WISH I still had hair like that), but is actually FCC Chair Julius Genachowski.With some critics claiming the U.S. is falling behind other developed nations in access to...
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Time Warner Boosts My Speed, Cuts My Bill: I Just Happen To Live Near Google...
(dooley)Rob is a Time Warner Cable customer, and he’s received two really interesting things from them lately. First, a 50% speed boost: they claim to have upgraded the speed of his home Internet...
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Dear Seattle: Comcast Doesn’t Want You To Have Fast Internet
(u2acro)Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn is pushing for a low-cost, high-speed fiber network that, at least in theory, would offer city residents better service at a better price than they currently receive....
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Google Who? L.A. Planning Citywide Gigabit Fiber Network
(ChrisGoldNY)While a handful of cities around the country have launched municipal fiberoptic networks to bring ultra-high-speed broadband access to consumers at a reasonable price, none have come close...
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AT&T Offers $70 (Sort-Of) Gigabit Internet… If You Let It Snoop On Your...
GigaPowers activate!AT&T has finally kicked off its gigabit Internet service in some parts of Austin, and is offering people high-speed fiber access “for as low as $70 a month.**” See those two...
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Real Competition From Google Or Window-Dressing For FCC? Time Warner Cable...
(nffcnnr)Here are two facts: Google Fiber is coming to Austin, and Time Warner Cable is being bought by Comcast. The question is: Which one of these two facts is the cause for TWC’s significantly...
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Thought Of Comcast Merger Scares AT&T Into Expanding Gigabit Fiber Service
(jayRaz)Dallas is AT&T’s home turf. It’s cable market is also dominated by Time Warner Cable. But the thought of that cable/Internet business being swallowed up by Comcast if its merger with TWC...
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Spooked By Specter Of Competition, AT&T Considering Gigabit Fiber Expansion...
(So Cal Metro) In a move that could theoretically bring something like the actual first glimmering hint of real broadband competition to a couple million more consumers nationwide, AT&T today...
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AT&T To Offer Gigabit Broadband Service In Apple’s Home Turf
While Verizon’s FiOS expansion plans are apparently idling in the “to do… maybe, at some point” bin, AT&T appears to be moving forward with its plans to roll out its GigaPower gigabit broadband...
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Two Big Reasons CNN Money Is Only Half Right About Gigabit Broadband Expansion
CNN Money’s colorful but misleading map shows both real and imaginary private gigabit expansion but misses public gigabit networks. Broadband internet coverage in the United States is still pretty...
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Comcast Trademarks “True Gig” Name For High-Speed Service It May Someday Launch
Comcast filed this application with the Patent and Trademark folks on Oct. 20.It’s not surprising that a company that thought “Xfinity” sounded like a good name for a broadband Internet service and not...
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AT&T Charges $40/Month More For Fiber Internet If Google Isn’t In Your Town Yet
Cupertino has the Power… at a premium price.Only weeks ago, AT&T announced gigabit fiber broadband service in Kansas City for $70/month. Granted, customers have to give up their right to privacy to...
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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...
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AT&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...
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AT&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...
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Comcast 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...
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Experimental 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...
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Comcast 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...
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North 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...
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Small 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...
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