For the next few weekends I’ll be at my wife’s Sacramento home so when I read that her broadband provider SureWest offers 50 meg symmetrical broadband service I offered to pay the difference from what we already had. I mean, I can’t not be one of the first bloggers to experience what all that speed … Read more
Rich Tehrani’s post about Vonage’s recent court defeat against Verizon and other telcos made me think back to my very first day of class at Temple University. It was Econ 1 with the late Professor McKenna. He explained in his very first lecture to us what the bases of economics were in two phrases. “Short … Read more
Pal PhoneBoy alerted me to yet another big telco squeeze play that’s affecting new ideas to save consumers money. This time Yak4Ever is the target. OUCH!!!
Yesterday i wrote about the ridiculous approach companies like Earthlink took to bring WiFi to the communities that already have plenty of broadband. Here’s an example of what I consider the right approach. Ramona, CA is in the deep suburbs of San Diego county. It’s a bucolic part of the county, more rural, than true … Read more
Yesterday i wrote about the ridiculous approach companies like Earthlink took to bring WiFi to the communities that already have plenty of broadband. Here’s an example of what I consider the right approach. Ramona, CA is in the deep suburbs of San Diego county. It’s a bucolic part of the county, more rural, than true … Read more
Let’s face it, the business model that Earthlink and a few others took for Muni WiFi sucked wind in most places. San Francisco still doesn’t even have a test site. Chicago is wireless-less while other cities that pursued a different plan like Minneapolis all have seemed to at least deploy. I’ll admit in Philadelphia Earthlink … Read more
Let’s face it, the business model that Earthlink and a few others took for Muni WiFi sucked wind in most places. San Francisco still doesn’t even have a test site. Chicago is wireless-less while other cities that pursued a different plan like Minneapolis all have seemed to at least deploy. I’ll admit in Philadelphia Earthlink … Read more
I’m very happy to read Dean Bubley’s post of Friday that describes in very easy to understand detail just why VoIP over 3G will be an exciting new path for communications. Last night I installed Skype on my real 3G handset from Verizon. A new Samsung i760 that’s based on Windows Mobile. The installation of … Read more
Jangl and Jajah struck a band aid like deal today that is a combination of marketing, technology and customer retention efforts. I call it a “band aid like deal” because of late the industry whispers about Jajah were that their numbers have been slowing down, and a lot of their usage has been mostly of … Read more
Om has a piece that talks about the slowdown in broadband. While some may immediately run out and dump their shares, worry about their job, or predict doom and gloom, I tend to want to look at what is causing the slowdown. 1) Not much new-The delivery of the Internet to peoples homes and businesses … Read more
