Broadband Slows Down
Posted on August 12, 2008 - Filed Under AT&T, Broadband, Internet, Verizon | Leave a Comment
Broadband signups have slowed to their lowest point in seven years in the US. You would think that every year would show significant improvement over the previous year indicating widespread availability and widespread acceptance.
Read More..>>Cuomo and Child Porn
Posted on July 13, 2008 - Filed Under AT&T, Internet, Usenet, Verizon | Leave a Comment
By now, you’ve no doubt seen the ‘coup’ that Andrew (Andy) Cuomo, Attorney General of NY pulled off this past week. He got AT&T and AOL (more on that one later), to join some other major players like Verizon and voluntarily shut off access to a large segment of newsgroups hosted on the ISP’s own […]
Read More..>>Comcast Ups Speed
Posted on June 15, 2008 - Filed Under AT&T, Cable, Comcast, DSL, Internet, Time-Warner | 1 Comment
Comcast says it will increase the upload speeds of two levels of its cable Internet service, providing a faster way for customers to upload files. The upload performance will increase at no additional cost. Comcast will increase the upload speed
Read More..>>AT&T Surcharge
Posted on June 12, 2008 - Filed Under AT&T, Cable, DSL, Internet | 2 Comments
My good friend AT&T Inc., the country’s largest Internet provider, is considering charging extra for customers who download large amounts of data. (Grrrr!)
The top 5 percent of AT&T’s DSL customers use 46 percent of the total bandwidth, according to a company spokesman.