Ø Basic Computer Terms Explained in Plain English. Finally, 100 Mbps Everywhere (If You Have Comcast): Broadband News and Analysis « It has been a long time coming, but now an average broadband subscriber in the U.S. can sign-up for a 100 Mbps broadband connection. Comcast, the largest cable (and broadband) company said Thursday it’s launching Extreme 105 across its entire footprint, which covers 40 million homes in cities such as San Francisco, Seattle; Chicago; Miami; Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; and the majority of Boston. To be sure, companies such as Cablevision provide 100 Mbps connections in its region (New York), but Comcast is making it available at a national level. Forecasts have indicated we could have 100 million homes with 100 Mbps by 2015, and with Thursday’s news, we’re pretty close to that target now. That should make the FCC pretty happy. Now, it’s not cheap: about $105 a month for the broadband connection if you sign up for a triple-play plan, where other services cost extra.
The standalone price is pretty darn steep — $199 a month — which I think is a shame. SXSW 2011. Spy Hop Productions :: Empowering Youth Through Multimedia. HOME | Reel Grrls. M-Lab | Welcome to Measurement Lab. HiFi Maui. Stop the Cap! » “Mean and Nasty” Stop the Cap! Upsetting Time Warner’s Apple Cart in North Carolina. Community broadband networks deliver the best value and speed for North Carolina consumers and businesses Word has reached Stop the Cap!
That hundreds of e-mails and phone calls are pouring into Rep. Marilyn Avila’s (R-Time Warner Cable) office protesting her hard work on behalf of the state’s largest cable company. We are being called “mean and nasty” by those supporting Avila’s anti-consumer bill, H.129. Our answer to that: we are not “mean” or “nasty.” We are fed up c0nsumers (and voters) who have serious concerns about certain state legislators who introduce bills custom-written by cable lobbyists to enact their business agenda into law. These anti-community broadband bills have come year after year in North Carolina, despite the fact the state has an “also-ran” reputation as a broadband backwater, with tremendous room for improvement in broadband speed, price, availability, and choice of providers. This year, it’s Ms.
The former Rep. The answer is, it does nothing. Stop the Cap! 2-5% Of Your Bill Actually Goes To Bandwidth - Netflix Is Not The Enemy, And The Sky Is Not Falling. Somewhere between 2-5% of your monthly broadband bill actually goes to bandwidth, long-time broadband industry analyst Dave Burstein reminds readers. While there's obviously plenty of additional costs beyond that -- such as support, lobbying, labor and marketing, there's also abundant new revenue streams (advertising via webmail, BVAS, selling your clickstream data, DNS Redirection revenue, charging to get around spam filters, targeted behavioral advertising). Burstein notes that the fact that bandwidth margins are about 90% is important to remember as ISPs try to convince consumers that Netflix bandwidth demand is unmanageable without low caps and high overages, or content company subsidies: quote:2 cents to 5 cents per gigabyte.
The actual bandwidth cost to a large carrier like Time Warner or AT&T, depending on how you do the accounting. $1/month/customer. The industry standard figure for the cost of bandwidth. Comparing Broadband Services: Salisbury Fibrant and Wilson Greenlight to Incumbents in North Carolina. Thank you for a fantastic educational video.
Hopefully some people will get the hint and realize that no only are they being ripped off by their local providers, the local providers are stifling innovation and costing the community much needed jobs. Synchronous Fiber To The Home (FTTH) is the ONLY solution that offers a future, every other solution continues the scarcity myths that the incumbents use to extort ever higher fees in perpetuity - this must be stopped for citizens to have decent Internet access. I just hope that the additional money used to run negative campaign ads against their opponents (ala Citizens United vs FEC) that led to Republicans, Tea Party and a few Libertarian candidates to get elected nationwide will not result in a change in the last 3/4 years in North Carolina.
For those that are not aware, Time Warner with the help of local Telcos (Baby Bells) has attempted to pass this legislation in the last 3/4 years but has been stopped each time. Ushahidi :: Home. GenZD. Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test. The National Broadband Plan: Connecting America. Alaka‘ina Foundation | Building Programs & Opportunities for the Youth of Hawai‘i.
Digital Bus Main Home Page. House Members. Elect Mele Carroll - Hawai'i State House Dist 13. Senator J. Kalani English - Hawaii State Senate - Hana, East and Upcountry Maui, Moloka'i, Lana'i and Kaho'olawe. Home | BroadbandUSA - NTIA. One Laptop per Child. National Broadband Map. Technologies at Play! Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) BTOP, funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, is designed to expand broadband access to unserved and underserved communities and provide long-term economic benefits. Tincan’s funding will enhance connectivity to the Spokane Public Library’s public access computers, establish or upgrade public computer centers at four city community centers, establish a training facility for Tincan programs, and increase public access computing through 7 non-profit partners. Tincan will also expand its technology training to include adults and small businesses.
Tincan’s BTOP project creates a city-wide alliance of community partners, the Spokane Broadband Technology Alliance, which will create a web of 17 public computer centers that blanket the low-income neighborhoods and are available to Spokane’s most vulnerable people. Day 4 – The Battle for North Carolina Broadband « Fighting the Next Good Fight. Well, so much for the value of representative democracy. That concept took a big hit yesterday. Community representatives in N. Carolina were led to believe by state house member Avila, “author” of this Time Warner anti-community network bill, that she was bringing both sides of the bill together yesterday to discuss a fair resolution to this issue. Representative Avila seemed to hold the same view I expressed in my last report, that every year NC goes through this same Time-Warner-driven ordeal and after much wailing, gnashing of teeth and victory by consumers, a nasty bill gets defeated. So what happens?
Rep. WTF! As just one point of evidence that Time Warner shows equal disregard for the elected body as for the electorate, the Legislative Rep for one of the associations fighting the bill described copies he has of two versions of the bill TW used to do a bait & switch on legislators. The citizens of N. The battle is now fully joined in NC. Like this: Like Loading... Don’t Believe the Hype — Few Muni Broadband Networks Fail (Opinion) Every year in North Carolina, at least a few members of the state Legislature introduce a bill that would crush community broadband networks in favor of large telecom and cable companies. One way they attempt this is by asserting that all community networks fail. Truth is, of the more than 80 community networks in the U.S., only a few have closed down.
You’ll read about many of those successes in this column. Time Warner’s allies in the Legislature recently introduced the most sweeping and intrusive anti-municipal network bill in quite some time. The extent to which it inhibits and micromanages communities’ efforts to bring constituents broadband when incumbents won’t essentially strips communities of their freedom to choose and make decisions in their best economic interests. Incumbents actually use two arguments to support their stance, not just in North Carolina but in other states too. Here are a few brief profiles from those “winning” networks. Not all community networks are fiber.