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Why You Should Set Up Your Own Community Fibre Network
Between the net neutrality debate and the Comcast/TWC merger, high-speed Internet access is getting more attention than ever. A lot of that attention is negative, and rightly so: Internet access providers, especially certain very large ones, have done a pretty good job of divvying up the nation to leave most Americans with only one or…
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The FCC Is Beta Testing The Future US Phone Network
We already knew that the FCC in the US had plans to rewrite the technology that supports the nation’s ageing landline phone network, and now its decided to start beta testing new infrastructure to ensure it can deliver.
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Google Fiber Continues The Awful ISP Tradition Of Banning ‘Servers’
In a Wired piece published recently, Ryan Singel assails Google’s newfound hypocrisy when it comes to net neutrality. And he’s right. Having spent many years fighting to stop Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from discriminating between different types of internet traffic, the tech giant is now perpetuating a long-standing form of that discrimation with Google Fiber,…
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Google’s Crazy 1000Mbps Fibre Internet Connection Is Out Today
Google’s unbelievably fast new 1000Mbps fibre is finally live in Kansas City today. Lucky ducks.