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October 2, 2009
Tweet Be Sure to Read Part One: Astroturf Overload — Broadband for America = One Giant Industry Front Group for an important introduction to what this super-sized industry front group is all about. Members of Broadband for America Red: A company or group actively engaging in anti-consumer lobbying, opposes Net Neutrality, supports Internet Overcharging, belongs […]
October 2, 2009
Tweet Astroturf: One of the underhanded tactics increasingly being used by telecom companies is “Astroturf lobbying” – creating front groups that try to mimic true grassroots, but that are all about corporate money, not citizen power. Astroturf lobbying is hardly a new approach. Senator Lloyd Bentsen is credited with coining the term in the 1980s […]
September 27, 2009
Tweet Hong Kong remains bullish on broadband. Despite the economic downturn, City Telecom continues to invest millions in constructing one of Hong Kong’s largest fiber optic broadband networks, providing fiber to the home connections to residents. City Telecom’s HK Broadband service relies on an all-fiber optic network, and has been dubbed “the Verizon FiOS of […]
September 23, 2009
Tweet BendBroadband, a small provider serving central Oregon, breathlessly announced the imminent launch of new higher speed broadband service for its customers after completing an upgrade to DOCSIS 3. Along with the launch announcement came a new logo of a sprinting dog the company attaches its new tagline to: “We’re the local dog. We better […]
September 23, 2009
Tweet Stop the Cap! reader Rick has been educating me about some of the new-found aggression by Shaw Communications, one of western Canada’s largest telecommunications companies, in expanding its business reach across Canada. Woe to those who get in the way. Novus Entertainment is already familiar with this story. As Stop the Cap! reported previously, […]
September 22, 2009
Tweet The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission, the Canadian equivalent of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, may be forced to consider American broadband policy before defining Net Neutrality and its role in Canadian broadband, according to an article published today in The Globe & Mail. [FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's] proposal – to codify and enforce […]
September 21, 2009
Tweet In March 2000, two cable magnates sat down for the cable industry equivalent of My Dinner With Andre. Fine wine, beautiful table linens, an exquisite meal, and a Monopoly board with pieces swapped back and forth representing hundreds of thousands of Canadian consumers. Ted Rogers and Jim Shaw drew a line on the western […]
September 11, 2009
Tweet Just like FairPoint Communications, the Towering Inferno of phone companies haunting New England, Frontier Communications is making a whole lot of promises to state regulators and consumers, if they’ll only support the deal to transfer ownership of phone service from Verizon to them. This time, Frontier is issuing a self-serving press release touting their […]
September 7, 2009
Tweet I see it took all of five minutes for George Ou and his friends at Digital Society to be swayed by the tunnel vision myopia of last week’s latest effort to justify Internet Overcharging schemes. Until recently, I’ve always rationalized my distain for smaller usage caps by ignoring the fact that I’m being subsidized […]
September 1, 2009
Tweet In 2007, we took our first major trip away from western New York in 20 years and spent two weeks an hour away from Calgary, Alberta. After two weeks in Kananaskis Country, Banff, Calgary, and other spots all over southern Alberta, we came away with the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Good […]
August 31, 2009
Tweet A federal appeals court in Washington has struck down, for a second time, a rulemaking by the Federal Communications Commission to limit the size of the nation’s largest cable operators to 30% of the nation’s pay television marketplace, calling the rule “arbitrary and capricious.” The 30% rule, designed to keep no single company from […]
August 27, 2009
Tweet Less than half of Americans surveyed by PC Magazine report they are very satisfied with the broadband speed delivered by their Internet service provider. PC Magazine released a comprehensive study this month on speed, provider satisfaction, and consumer opinions about the state of broadband in their community. The publisher sampled more than 17,000 participants, […]
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Comcast is increasing the number of speed tiers available to broadband customers in markets where DOCSIS 3 broadband upgrades have been completed. The new options are part of the company’s effort to rebrand its product line under the Xfinity name.
What’s the point of a 105mbit service with a 250gb cap? There seems to be little to recommend it over the 50mbit service aside from the increased upload speed, but then why not just offer a 50/20 plan and be done?
Pointless.
Like a Nascar Racecar with a 1 gallon gas tank. Its not the speed, its the cap… These guys are such huge blood suckers… They KNEW the internet was going to need bandwidth, and alot of it, in 2003 when they first put in the cap. And the BS that 95% stay below the limit, is getting more and more ludicris every passing day.
I have touched the cap or slightly exceeded it 8 of the last 12 months. And the day I have have to stop my usage or really risk going over is getting earlier and earlier every month. I’m at 92% and its the 26th of Feb, thankfully it’s a short month.
Thank goodness for lax neighbors who let me tap in. But even they are gettng closer and closer, without my piggybacking…
So the day of reckoning will be upon Comcast sooner rather than later. If they force too many into Business Class (which they WON’T OFFER in my neighborhood), the out cry to re-regulate cable/ISPs is going to grow louder and louder.
And no, we just use internet for browsing, watching TV, kids listen to pandora and watch Hulu, we play a few MMORPGs, and use Comcast Backup, Mozy and Dropbox for file sync and backup of critical files from our PCs.
Rift was just released. 8.5 GB a download, plus more. Beta, etc. 3 PCs and BAM, 24GB hit.
Come on now…
Just to say you have it I’d suppose, lets them deflect some of the criticism of Japan/Asia countries offering it, abiet @ rates over 50-75% cheaper at higher speeds than US providers.
I do have the 105mbps speed tier but the upload speed on it is 10mbps not 20mbps i dont thing they have such thing as 105/20 its 105/10
Hi Greg, it’s my impression these speeds are forthcoming, which is why you cannot get them right now.
Aha, So does this mean my 105/10 will be 105/20 some where down the row ?