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Google says tear down local policy barriers to get faster broadband
No red tape to be seen. “In Kansas City, my crews don’t wait for inspectors, the inspectors wait for them”, said Milo Medin, the head of Google Fiber. “We work with communities that make it easy for...
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Quiet campaign for Longmont muni FTTH bonds
Cards not on the table yet. Judging by the lack of ripples in cyberspace, the upcoming $45 million broadband bond election in Longmont, Colorado is not generating a boisterous debate. Granted, it’s...
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CPUC rebukes Verizon, prepares to vote on five broadband projects
No point in kicking if the game is long over. A series of procedural temper tantrums earned Verizon politely worded advice to pay attention to the rules and nothing more. In revised draft resolutions...
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CPUC affirms relevance of broadband pricing and caps, approves subsidies for...
The California Public Utilities Commission said yes this morning to spending $4.8 million from the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) on five rural broadband projects. Commissioners approved the...
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Muni broadband wins voters’ hearts in Colorado but not Seattle
Filling up in Colorado, half empty and still deflating in Seattle. Seattle voters yesterday turfed out mayor Mike McGinn, their broadband cheerleader-in-chief, giving the job to state senator Ed Murray...
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CPUC faces a decision on broadband subsidy limits
Broadband construction subsidies are averaging $2,200 per household, as the California Public Utilities Commission works through the current round of proposals submitted for California Advanced...
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LA isn’t playing with a full broadband deck
Last week the LA city council endorsed a plan, written by the city’s IT chief, Steve Reneker, and sponsored by freshman councilman Bob Blumenfield to entice private investors into providing ubiquitous...
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Google seeks friends to influence Provo landlords
By the book. Google is laying a time honored sales technique on Provo landlords: the presumptive close. As in Kansas City, it’s requiring owners to front the installation charge for all the units in a...
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FTTH lucrative for new home builders in Loma Linda, but too costly for...
Colored areas are on the FTTH roadmap. Click for larger version. The small southern California city of Loma Linda is a company town. Its major business is health care, with five major medical...
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CPUC debates fairness of giving big broadband subsidies to tiny communities
Is anyone home? (Click to download today’s staff presentation). “It’s a little frustrating that this would be one of the last places you’d expect high quality internet service, yet you have...
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Mayor closes the curtain on Gigabit Seattle’s political theater
Running with the bull. Gigabit Seattle will quickly fade away in the new year, judging by the lost faith of its most prominent cheerleader, outgoing mayor Mike McGinn. In an interview with GeekWire,...
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AT&T wants to buy your privacy for $29 a month
Let AT&T know what you like, and they’ll send you interesting ads. AT&T is offering fiber-to-the-home Internet service in Austin at an introductory rate of $70, if subscribers allow AT&T to...
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Utopia might finally be utopia, thanks to Google
Is a Google buyout the exit strategy? One way or the other, it looks like Google is behind an impending bailout of Utopia, Utah’s multi-city muni fiber-to-the-home system. According to a story in the...
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CPUC approves $1.8 million for “fiber to the vacation cabin”
No phone, no water, no power, no people. But wicked fast email. “I’m a big supporter of fiber to the home, but fiber to the vacation cabin is a different thing”, said commissioner Michel Florio as he...
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Aussies jump in with Utopia FTTH bid
Spends just as well as a greenback. Utopia’s saviour appears to be an Australian investment company, Macquarie Capital Group, that specialises in large public sector projects, including fiber optic...
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$170 million in California broadband subsidy proposals await decisions
The latest update from the California Public Utilities Commission shows that 12 projects are still in the hunt for subsidies from the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF). Eleven projects,...
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Google’s fiber crusade rolls on in Austin, sorta
Some were shouting ‘Texas number one!’ AT&T will, it says, expand the reach of its fiber-to-the-home network in Austin, Texas. The company claimed, in a breathless press release, that uptake of its...
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Motorola sale sets a benchmark for judging Google’s fiber strategy
As long as it takes, but no longer. There’re two ways to look at Google’s decision to unload its Motorola handset business to Lenovo for $2.9 billion. It’s either a long overdue retreat and admission...
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Wanaka speeds ahead in New Zealand Gigatown contest
Jumping on board the Gigatown Wanaka bus. New Zealand communities are slugging it out to become the country’s first “Gigatown”. It’s part of a national government sponsored effort to build out a...
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CenturyLink stokes fiber demand in Utah
Picking the Utah state fruit. Salt Lake City businesses will be getting gigabit service from CenturyLink soon, according to a company press release. It’s a follow-on to its fiber-to-the-home experiment...
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