Cambria County Example
Cambria County deploys emergency services with wireless access in their county and several ISP’s sell their wireless services to the public. Their wireless network infrastructure is similar to the...
View ArticleGoogle Fiber for Communities
95959google.com – Nevada City prepares to submit a Request For Information (RFI) for Googles “Fiber for Communities”. The RFI announced on Feb 10, 2010 for municipalities to provide them with...
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Spiral Internet featured in Broadband Blindness
Earlier this year, Sacramento filmmaker Rob Osborn, came to Nevada City to tape part of a proposed online series about broadband Internet access in northern California. The three part 25-minute video,...
View ArticleHow We’re Penalized for AT&T’s Missed Opportunity
In 1993, AT&T had the vision to promote how they would create the future via a TV advertising campaign. However, once AT&T collapsed into the corporate grip of Texas-based Southwestern Bell...
View ArticleWhy America’s Internet Speeds are Sub-Standard
This recent Bill Moyers interview with Susan Crawford, author of the provocative “Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age”, is worth watching, especially if...
View ArticleSusan Crawford says “Life is Short, Get in the Way”
Susan Crawford, author of the recently published “Captive Audience“, gave a terrific short talk at the 2013 National Conference for Media Reform. Her rallying cry is that we need to start with 100 Mbps...
View ArticleFiber Optic Networks and Smart Grid Technology
They did it in Chattanooga, Tennessee and Lafayette, Louisiana. Nearby in California, the Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative is doing it too, as Plumas-Sierra Telecommunications. Municipal and...
View Article95959google Happened Seven Years Ago Today
In early 2010, Google announced that it was going to pick one city and build a gigabit fiber optic internet network there. Google had no idea that it would spark a pent-up demand for better and...
View ArticleThe Big Lie
The big telcos (telephone companies) and cable companies have become THE impediment for deployment of required ultra-fast gigabit internet access networks. As well as squashing any competition that...
View ArticleThe Misinformed Fear of All Things 5G
On September 25, I sat through three hours of public comments at the City Council meeting in Nevada City. Those comments were supposedly about the new “Wireless Telecommunications Facilities in the...
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