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Satellite Internet providers WildBlue and HughesNet have said they are both working to upgrade their speed and availability "over the next few years." Really? Years? I realize it's a major undertaking to shoot a satellite into orbit around our crowded planet. The time to have put those satellites in place was several years ago, or worst case, right now. Not
A new insider is recorded will be getting that pushed here in the next 24 hours. Want to be an insider see the link below. Also I am looking for a fan to run the shows facebook page interested email me. Huge pile of tech tonight, so much so that their are some links below that I skipped as I
The British Government has confessed that it doesn't have sufficient money to meet the deadline of 2012 for a 2Mb/s broadband universal service. This commitment had been made by the previous government but was reconfirmed by the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, only last month in his speech at the Hospital Club in London. He further said, "Our goal is simple: within
The death of Senator Bryd at the age of 92, had me thinking about the technical advances he saw in his life time. That the fight to get those advances to the most people was being fought then and continues to be fought today. The battleground may have changed, but the arguments often repeat themselves. Today, the battle is over what is the best way to get broadband to the most people. In the 1930's it was electricity. While 90% of all urban residents had electricity by the 1930's only 10% of rural residence did. Electric companies of that time said it was too expensive to supply electricity to sparsely populated rural areas, that they could not justify the cost. Rural residents who were lucky enough to have electricity paid rates two times as high as those in urban areas. This was at a time when items such as refrigeration, the radio and the telephone, all which depended on electricity were coming into their own. Without electricity, rural areas were falling further and further behind their urban counter part.
Ok had a great visit at Ford Motor Company, videos coming next week but I give you my run-down on the event and my perspective. Show recorded from the kitchen of the home I grew up in. There will be a very special insider for those of you that have signed up to be a insider. For those wanting to
Over the years of GNC, I've heard Todd rail on about broadband bandwidth caps and while I've enjoyed his rants, it's been low priority topic for me. Why? Because I think I'm a power user with a good selection of podcasts, a fair bit of online TV viewing, some (legal) music downloads. However, in a single month, I have never got anywhere
In his pre-Budget report, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer has confirmed that there will be a 6 GBP tax on all households with fixed-line phones in order to setup a fund that will be used to ensure that even the uneconomical parts of the UK will get fast fibre connections. Note for readers - the incumbent UK Government is Labour,