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Why you will need a 300 Mbps broadband connection
The growing popularity of connected TVs and efforts to build interactive programs will drive the next wave of broadband demand. That future and the continued growth of devices in the home are all...
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Google Fiber to launch next week
Google just sent out invitations to a “special event” in Kansas City on July 26 which is undoubtedly the launch of its much-anticipated fiber-to-the-home network. The search giant sent an invite...
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And here it is! Comcast’s 305 Mbps tier
For $300, people in the Northeast, presumably in areas where Comcast competes with Verizon’s fiber to-the-home offering, can soon get 305 Mbps service from Comcast. Upload speeds will be 65 Mbps. The...
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3 disappointments from the Google Fiber launch
After the high of launching yesterday, there are three elements of the Google Fiber announcement that aren’t so awesome. Outside of the compelling pricing, the free service at low-end speeds and the...
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Garbage in garbage out: Google Fiber edition
After lackluster fiber registrations in certain Kansas City neighborhoods, Google has adjusted down the number of homes in certain neighborhoods eligible for the service. The search giant says it is...
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Gigabit Squared plans fiber broadband for Chicago’s south side
We now know the identity of at least one of the six cities benefiting from Gigabit Squared’s ambitious plan to bring to gigabit broadband connectivity to college towns across the US. Chicago isn’t...
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As Austin readies for Google Fiber, here’s why you need a gig: even if you...
I was so excited by the prospect that my newly built home in Austin, Texas might get Google Fiber’s gigabit service, that I couldn’t sleep last night. I felt like kid the night before Christmas,...
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Finding Google fiber in your own back yard
A country ballad that ushered in the 80s decried looking for love in all the wrong places. As the buzz machine ramps up after back-to-back announcements from Google letting the world know it is...
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Vermont gets a gigabit network. And it only costs residents $35 a month
The telephone company that provided the copper service that in 1923 allowed Calvin Coolidge to be sworn in as United States President, at Plymouth Notch in Vermont, is trading its storied copper for...
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CenturyLink gets gigabit fever … in Omaha
CenturyLink, the nation’s third-largest telephone company, has decided to get join Google, AT&T and several municipalities and get gigabit fever as well. The company will offer a fiber-to-the-home,...
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Are you a gigabit thinker? Google Fiber and U.S. Ignite want to know
Perhaps sick of the people who look askance at gigabit connections and ask, “Why does anyone need a gig?” the US Ignite broadband effort and Google Fiber are launching a competition for people who...
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What happens in Vegas will now happen at gigabit speeds
CenturyLink will expand its gigabit network pilot to Las Vegas, bringing fiber to the home service to select neighborhoods in the desert city this fall with more areas added in 2014. This follows on...
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More proof that without competition U.S. broadband costs more and delivers less
The fastest, cheapest broadband in the world can be found in South Korea, with a triple play bundle that costs the equivalent of $36.31 and delivers gigabit speeds. This data is from the 2013 Cost of...
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LA wants to pave its streets with gigabit broadband (on somebody else’s dime)
The city of Los Angeles isn’t waiting for Google to grace its neighborhoods with fiber. It’s decided to move forward with its own plans for a metro fiber-to-the-home network, according to Ars Technica....
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AT&T’s gigabit service is $70 if you let it spy on your searches
AT&T said Wednesday that it has started service in four Austin neighborhoods with an offer to bring its GigaPower fiber-to-the-home service for $70 a month — but with a pretty big catch. If you...
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Google should license its gigabit network knowledge to cities
Building a gigabit network is unfortunately not a fast proposition. It takes time and money to dig trenches or string fiber. But in an op-ed over at Ars Technica, the CEO of Wicked Broadband in...
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How Realistic Is BT's Fiber Broadband Plan?
Updated at the bottom: Unless you’re using Enron math, BT’s new plan to connect 10 million homes — roughly 40 percent of the United Kingdom — with fiber networks at a cost of £1.5 billion doesn’t quite...
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Google's Fiber Network Could Foil ISPs and Fuel Innovation
Google will build a fiber network that offers speeds of 1 Gbps. The network could become an indirect threat to ISPs, because Google could disclose competitive data on actual network costs and it could...
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Hey ISPs, Google Wants to Share Its Fiber Network
Google's planned experimental fiber network will be so open that a project manager says it hopes to see other ISPs riding its connection to deliver their own services. Now's the chance for ISPs to...
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Sonic.net Will Manage Google’s Stanford Fiber Network
Sonic.net -- a well-known, albeit small, independent ISP -- is going to operate the trial fiber-to-the-home network to be built by Google on the Stanford Campus. Sonic.net will "manage operation of the...
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