It’s taken awhile, but Wall Street is now regarding Google’s deployment of Google Fiber in Kansas City with less animus and more admiration, predicting the new Internet and pay-TV play could be a headache for Time Warner Cable and AT&T U-verse, which both have irons in the K.C. fire, and even become “an economically attractive†[…]
I’m in the process of writing a check for my cable bill today, an ungodly large check for the service I get, and I’m including a note to whomever at Charter Communications reads these kinds of things. I’m unsubscribing. After three years on their books, I’m giving up on waiting for fast—as in consistently fast—Internet […]
The Provo Municipal Council has agreed to accept Google’s $1 payment, for the city’s iProvo fiber-optic network, clearing the way for the muni-fiber network to transition to Google Fiber, making Provo the third city to get the 1 Gbps Internet and pay-TV service. Google will lease the network to the city for free for the […]
U.S. broadband connection speeds now average better than 7.4 Mbps, Akamai today said in its Q4 State of the Internet Report, that’s more than 25 percent faster than average connection speeds nationwide were a year ago, but still leaves the United States eighth in the global rankings behind South Korea (14 Mbps), Japan (10.8 Mbps), […]
It seemed as if only months ago Google Fiber was being classed as “an experiment†by many of the folks who supposedly know about this space. The rollout in Kansas City was labeled as everything from a ploy by Google to put pressure on other broadband providers to pony up and improve their speed and […]
Have you got “the best idea ever†for a streaming media service? You might just be nearing the catbird seat. (Psst! Intel, Google Fiber listen up!) A poll from Harris Interactive suggests that nearly 40% of U.S. adults in that prime 18-34 age group would be willing to leave their pay-TV service provider for a […]
