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Last week FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski unveiled his "100 Squared" initiative, which sets the goal of America having 100 million households connected to 100Mbps by 2020. But what does that goal really mean? Is that 100Mbps symmetrical, with as much...
Something interesting happened this week: Cox Communications launched its first DOCSIS 3.0 service tier, offering speeds up to 50Mbps down and 5Mbps up. But what's interesting isn't that Cox did this, it's where they did it: Lafayette, LA. The same...
I continue to be amazed at how many respectable, knowledgeable people still think that DOCSIS 3.0 is the answer to all our broadband problems. Take this blog post by Saul Hansell on NYTimes.com entitled: "Does Broadband Need a Stimulus?" Let's...
Holy crap, this is an interesting twist. One thing I forgot to mention in my post this morning about the scuffle between Time Warner Cable (TWC) and Viacom was TWC's complaint about Viacom making so much of its content available...
Just after the stroke of midnight tonight, Time Warner Cable customers will lose access to 19 Viacom channels (including MTV, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon) due to a dispute over carriage fees. This is the clearest evidence yet that we need...
Earlier this week I attended my first Broadband Breakfast Club, an innovative series of breakfast meetings in DC aimed at providing a venue for the various stakeholders in broadband policy debates to come together and discuss/debate issues in a more...
Wow - Well here we go, proof positive that competition does drive deployment of faster networks. Time Warner's COO basically said that where there's fiber to compete against they'll be deploying DOCSIS 3.0, the next generation of cable broadband. But...
OK, I'm officially fed up. Cox has started running ads in my area touting themselves as "The New Face of Fiber." Now, Cox isn't the first cableco to try and claim the fiber optic mantle. Basically anywhere someone else is...
Everyone knows that cable companies have some problems with their broadband service. Theirs is a shared network where one neighbor can have dramatically negative impacts on another's service. There's the Comcast/Bittorrent brouhaha over the cable giant blocking or degrading sometimes-legal...
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