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Friday, May 22, 2009
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Broadband Is So Slow Amazon’s Import/Export Service Sends Data Using the Post Office

8:20AM Matt Buchanan | How crappy is the current state of broadband? Amazon Web Services’ new Import/Export data delivery moves files using the postal service because broadband is too slow. More »
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Friday, May 1, 2009
Networks

Google on How to Change the Internet: You Should Own Your Broadband Pipes

5:20AM Matt Buchanan | Google policy analyst Derek Slater—who’s so obviously related to Christian Slater—explains how to reshape broadband in the US. Step one: Own the actual pipes that run to your house. More »
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Networks

Verizon Plans to Expand FiOS to the Boonies By Using Less Fibre (¡Que!)

1:20AM Matt Buchanan | PC Mag is reporting that Verizon is looking at a couple different ways to spread the good word of FiOS beyond the projected 18 million homes it’ll reach in 2010, maybe by using less, um, fibre after that, according to tech chief Mark Wegleitner. More »
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Networks

Verizon Pumping FiOS Bandwidth to 50Mbps Down, 20Mbps Up Across Whole Footprint

11:33PM Matt Buchanan | Verizon FiOS’s blazingest 50Mbps downstream/20Mbps upstream package is no longer confined to the pit of the tri-state NY/NJ/CT area and select other locales. Starting next week, it’ll be available across Verizon’s entire, growing FiOS footprint in 16 states. (Though it’ll run US$139.95 a month to NY and VA’s bargain US$89.95/month.) Also, everyone who got 15/15 Mbps now has the option for 20/20 symmetrical (US$64.95 a month), and its lower end packages are getting juiced from 15/2 Mbps to 20/5 Mbps, and from 5/2 Mbps to 10/2 Mbps (uh, why do you people have FiOS?). Overall, a nice day to be a FiOS customer, even more so than before. *Kicks stupid cable modem* [Verizon] More »
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