by andflywrite | Sep 4, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
Affordable quality broadband access continues to be a slow rollout for rural areas in US, and smaller population centers. There are efforts underway by tech giants like Google or should we say Alphabet to create municipal FTTH and/or innovate the problem away. In the...
by andflywrite | Aug 16, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
In some ways, Minnesota is like NM, with a great deal of the state consisting of spread out small towns. Which creates a similar need for rural broadband access. However, Minnesota is a much more vibrant economy, as their rural areas are high producing...
by andflywrite | Jun 20, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
“Telecoms”, which now includes cable system operators, has notoriously been at odds with their customer base, and the cities and towns and states they operate in. We’ll leave it to others to explain why this is so, but note here that NYC, one of the...
by andflywrite | Jun 11, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
In the US, affordable quality access to the internet continues to be problematic. Despite recent moves by the FCC towards a potentially enforceable version of net neutrality, government regulation doesn’t always manage to get the job done. Sometimes it’s...
by andflywrite | May 31, 2015 | BEST LINKS EVER
Wired article on recent FCC proposals to modify the Lifeline program to support online access for poor. [gview file=”https://publicservicesalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Why-Helping-the-Poor-Pay-for-Broadband-Is-Good-for-Us-All-WIRED.pdf”]
