Category: Broadband
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Hazzard County, Tacoma
Boss Hogg Lives! Okay, here’s the scenario: somewhere in a town probably deep down in the rural South, the politicians decide unceremoniously to dump part of the city’s utility system. The line given to the townsfolk, is that the utility system is losing money. This issue of losses is hotly contested, but the town fathers…
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Privatizing Click is not the answer
The whole problem with Click! Network is that their management are idiots. They never have had any idea how to compete in selling broadband access. Click’s always controlled the wholesale prices that the ISP’s use to set their prices. They kept the wholesale prices higher than they should have been because they were trying to…
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Click! Networks should get out of the cable TV business
There’s been a discussion lately about the viability of Click. It seems the Cable TV business is losing money – in part through the rising costs of programming content, and partially because of the way the city cooks their books, writing off capital construction costs of the network. The wholesale internet business – where Click…
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Another Love Letter to Marguerite Reardon…
C-Net’s Maggie Reardon wrote another PR-release, fluff piece for Comcast on the issue of the Comcast-Netflix peering/extortion issue. In this supposed, “learned” explanatory piece, Ms. Reardon details all the thousand reasons Comcast embodies all that is goodness and right and how NetFlix is a horrible bandwidth hog, free-lunch expectant monster! Yeah, right. Here’s the piece: C-Net article:…
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FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Would Break the Internet
C-Net’s Marguerite Reardon’s at it again, with a new piece on the goodness of the FCC’s proposed rules on “Open Internet.” http://www.cnet.com/news/fccs-position-on-net-neutrality-hasnt-changed/ She spends the whole article mouthing soothing platitudes from the talking points Comcast prepared for her. I can’t believe anyone is so stupid as to believe these rules won’t terribly harm consumers. So…
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Comcast – Time Warner Cable Merger Is Bad News For Consumers
Marguerite Reardon of C-Net wrote an opinion piece suggesting the Comcast-TWC merger would be a good thing. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57620361-93/why-a-comcast-merger-could-be-good-for-twc-customers/ I wrote the following response: Maggie Reardon has obviously sold her soul to Comcast. Her opinion piece is an embarrassment. It looks like most of it was copied verbatim from a Comcast press release. I’ve never…
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Click! Network Moves to Put Independant ISP’s Out of Business
After years of operating in blissful ignorance of the markets they allegedly compete in, Click! has come to the conclusion that they’re in trouble and have to do something, and do it quick! The fact that they haven’t upgraded their system to DOCSIS 3.0 – like Comcast did three years ago isn’t to blame. The…
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Click! Network Responds
And yet another open letter to Click! Network management: One of your people called me a few days ago to talk about DOCSIS 3.0 I’m sorry, I don’t recall his name. He was under the strong impression Comcast just rolled out DOCSIS 3.0 here in Tacoma in December 2009. WRONG. As I told the guy,…
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Is Click! Network Trying To Commit Suicide? Looks That way…
Comcast started offering DOCSIS 3.0 connections here in the Seattle-Tacoma area over a year ago. Where is DOCSIS 3.0 for Click customers? An open letter to Click! Network Management Sirs: Comcast started offering DOCSIS 3.0 connections here in the Seattle-Tacoma area over a year ago. At the time Comcast premiered it’s product here, I called…
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Metered Bandwidth Will Kill Movie Downloads and Stifle Other New Technology
I was looking at file sizes of Blu-Ray movies today. The average size of 320 current titles was 27 GB – for just the movie alone. You add in all the extras and what not that usually come with a DVD (deleted scenes, extra content, etc) and the size jumps up to an average of…