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But a series of FCC decisions over the last six years years have allowed the incumbent LECs to refuse to provide competitors unbundled access to the loop bandwidth needed to provide new IT applications to businesses.

The FCC has decided today is weighing a request that would force cable providers and carriers to lease  FTTH (fiber-to-the-home)  lines to competitive carriers and application service providers. A favorable FCC ruling would be a major change in policy. Previously, incumbents … Continue reading →

It’s most likely a case of cabin fever and general grumpiness from shoveling my way out of the instant tundra that befell New Jersey. I won’t be abandoning Twitter anytime soon for Google Buzz . But Buzz has a few … Continue reading →

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Silicon Alley Insider has the dish on Apple replacing Google with Microsoft’s Bing on the iPhone. No one’s taking any of this very seriously. Still it’s fun and frightening to think about where all this could  lead:  iWord,  iExcel,  iPowerPoint. … Continue reading →

We’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We’ll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 … Continue reading →

Yesterday the Official Google Blog revealed plans for a 1 Gig fiber-to-the-home network. Their project sounds almost tentative and in the spirit of knowledge for knowledge’s sake: …the purpose of this project is to experiment and learn. Network providers are … Continue reading →

The scene at the feeder. It was busier earlier. I think the birds have finally decided it’s bad flying weather.

Residents of Rugdeveien Street in Bergen, Norway had this reaction to Google Street View:

Globally, mobile data traffic will double every year through 2013, increasing 66x between 2008 and 2013. Mobile data traffic will grow at a CAGR of 131 percent between 2008 and 2013, reaching over 2 exabytes per month by 2013.