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While there's nothing new about lamenting over America's falling in the standings relative to broadband in the rest of the world, I continue to be amazed at how that gap seems to be widening, not just in the capacity and...
Over the weekend during my travels through Paris with my wife I had a chance to visit with Michael Curri of SNG Networks at his home. While there he highlighted something that while I knew as a data point hit...
In yet another sign of the gaping chasm between America's broadband trajectory and the rest of the world, China Telecom has announced that they're going to install a fiber network that passes 18 million homes this year. To put that...
The more I learn about what South Korea's doing related to its national broadband strategy the more impressed, inspired, and intimidated I become. Impressed by how long they've been focused on the many issues surrounding broadband deployment and adoption, and...
Last week was the deadline for submitting initial comments to the FCC on the formulation of a national broadband strategy (NBS). Not surprisingly this has been a hot topic, with more than 8,000 pages submitted by a wide range of...
Previously I've argued that everyone agrees that fiber is the gold standard of broadband. The only questions being can other technologies deliver the same capacity, do we need that much capacity, and can we afford to bring the gold standard...
Well America's refusal to embrace a Full Fiber Nation as our ultimate goal just got even more absurd: Australia announced they're laying fiber everywhere. The reason I use the word "absurd" is threefold. 1 - Everyone always says America's too...
I continue to be fascinated by the happenings with ISPs up north of our border. Previously it's been issues surrounding bandwidth caps and net neutrality. Now it's the trend of Canadian content creators trying to get ISPs to pay them....
Wow: Koreans to Have 1Gbps by 2012 And this isn't just a vague promise. They've got a specific plan to generate roughly $25 billion in total investment by investing $1 billion in government dollars. I don't yet know how they're...
With the economy slumping I've been reading a steady string of articles lamenting the state of venture capital. People who used to invest have less money to do so and are more nervous about risk making it harder for startups...
Wow! That's the first thought that came to mind when I read this article, courtesy of the great people at the Blandin Foundation. It's a story of how a Japanese researcher traveled to rural Minnesota to learn about how they're...
I wanted to share an article I came across about Twitter. It details how Twitter's been used in emergency situations like the California wildfires and the recent Chinese earthquake. Many ended up relying on Twitter more than the mainstream news...
To start with, Flickr is a website that lets you upload, organize, and share photos with friends, family, and the world. Flickr is a Web 2.0 application in that the data on its site can be easily inputted into other...
I read a tremendous article found in Jim Baller's regular email newsletter earlier this week that highlights a number of interesting and important points. It details an initiative where 150 teachers are going to be finding employment in Wyoming teaching...
Nothing’s better than clicking a link and discovering something new and cool, especially an app that is both visually impressive and functional. Well, here is just such a link. It’s called Audiotool. It's an online virtual reproduction of audio equipment...
OK, so this title might be a little melodramatic, but I can say that one of the most noteworthy things I saw on the show floor was from Germany: an organization called Berlin Partner GmbH. Now Berlin Partner is not...
It’s been interesting to watch telecommunications evolve in Canada. In some areas it’s almost like we’re able to watch the challenges that we’re talking about facing in the US already being played out up north of the border. Take bandwidth...
Yesterday at the Freedom 2 Connect conference I attended a panel on Open Fiber jam packed with top-notch speakers covering the deployment of fiber in Amsterdam, Japan, Vermont, and Lafayette, LA. Let’s dive in and start with Dirk van der...
I read a remarkable article in the New York Times yesterday about Cuba's underground Internet. It describes how despite Cuba being largely cut off from the world that there are thousands of people finding ways to get information into and...
A couple weeks ago I wrote about the cutting of two major underseas Internet cables near Egypt, which led to a 50% drop in connectivity for some entire countries. I commented about how I was surprised this doesn't happen more...
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