The Federal election has been sitting on the edge of a knife since we went to the polls on August 21, with neither party having enough seats to form government. But the real tragedy has been that with the deadlock, we’ve had no idea whether or not we’d be getting a nationwide broadband network built or not. Fortunately all that ended today, with independent MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott joining with the Labor party to form a minority government, giving them the numbers to keep rolling out the NBN. More »
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.
