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- What Is Beyond Broadband?
Sometimes a headline catches your eye that makes you think the writer must have been half drunk when he wrote it. That's what I thought when I saw "Broadband to be Obsolete within a Decade." But then I kept reading.
The post at HighPosition.net d......
Read more - Are Rural Communities Saying Forget It to Broadband?
Is David McClure, CEO and president of the United Sates Internet Industry Association (USIIA),
getting enough fiber in his diet? According to a post on the Web site, Broadband Reports, McClure says, "virtually every U.S. household and business has ......
Read more - FCC Broadband Standards Need a Reboot
The Federal Communications Commission recently released a report that shows high-speed Internet access has risen 22 percent and penetrates 99 percent of the zip codes in the United States. However, those statistics come with two significant caveats: ......
Read more - Are Wi-Fi Hot Spots the New Pay Phone Booths?
Look around, wherever you may roam, and you will likely notice a lack of pay phones. These old reasons to carry a quarter around have slowly started to disappear as cell phones have become increasingly popular. And in those same places you used to fi......
Read more - What's the Deal with Net Neutrality?
Net Neutrality created a big buzz this month when the New York attorney general's office subpoenaed Comcast for its alleged throttling of customers' Internet use and when Reps. Ed Markey and Chip Pickering introduced the "Internet Freedom Preservatio......
Read more - Dispatches From Digital City EXPO, Part 7: Finale
Well, here we are at the closing keynote speaker. Mark Goldstein, president of the International Research Center and member of the Arizona Telecommunications and Information Council (ATIC), put the topper on the Digital City EXPO cake with his presen......
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