Category Archives: Broadband

Broadband Mapping in the Motherlode

By Greg Falken | Published: February 8, 2010

A-TCAA Central Sierra Connect needs your help with mapping broadband in our region (Amador, Alpine, Calaveras, Mariposa and Tuolumne counties). Please follow this link to the “crowdsourcing” module, created by Solstice Geospatial, to help map our area’s broadband footprint. On this site, you can put in your address (for home and/or business), take a speed [...]

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Interview with FCC’s Broadband Strategy Manager

By Greg Falken | Published: December 23, 2009

David Weinberger interviews Steve Rosenberg, Manager of Infrastructure for the FCC’s Omnibus Broadband Initiative, about understanding the gaps in broadband coverage, and what it would take financially to close those gaps.

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Obama Promises Improved Broadband Access

By Greg Falken | Published: December 6, 2008

It’s on the record. In this week’s radio and YouTube address, President-Elect Obama has proposed improved broadband access as part of his economic recovery plan. He sees this as an important part of maintaining this country’s competitiveness in the global marketplace and notes that the U.S., the country where the Internet was invented, is currently [...]

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Help Coming for Rural Broadband?

By Greg Falken | Published: November 17, 2008

The Obama-Biden Transition Team has named two strong supporters of Net-Neutrality to be the FCC Review Team Leads. Susan Crawford is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, teaching communications law and internet law. She was a partner with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale) until the end of 2002, when she left [...]

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Will USA Recover Lost Ground In Broadband?

By Greg Falken | Published: July 23, 2007

Pundit “Bob Cringely” cites pressure on regional carriers to improve broadband service and reduce prices over the long term: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070720_002525.html

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$10 DSL from AT&T

By Greg Falken | Published: June 19, 2007

Yahoo! News and The Consumerist are reporting that AT&T, as part of concessions to the FCC for their acquisition of Bell South, are offering basic DSL service for $10 per month, on a one year contract. The plan is called FastAccess on the Bell South web site and it is supposed to be available in [...]

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Broadband Expansion 101

By Greg Falken | Published: April 10, 2007

The task of bringing broadband Internet service to an unserved area has two key components: the local connection the long distance connection The logistics are similar to setting up a town with postal service. The neighborhood post office is responsible for moving mail to and from all local addresses. It is also responsible for transferring [...]

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Google TiSP – Going With The Flow

By Greg Falken | Published: April 1, 2007

Google TiSP was announced today, offering free home wireless broadband service via fiter-optic cable installed through municipal sewage lines. From the FAQ: We believe that all users deserve free, fast and sanitary online access. To offset the cost of providing the TiSP service, we use information gathered by discreet DNA sequencing of your personal bodily [...]

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How A Neighborhood Gets On The Internet

By Greg Falken | Published: March 18, 2007

Getting Connected It is Network Sierra’s mission to get Tuolumne County better connected to the Internet. To make this happen, it is helpful to understand how any individual computer or any local community becomes connected to the Internet in the first place. I hope that the following basic description of Internet infrastructure provides some understanding [...]

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Broadband Speed Test

By Greg Falken | Published: February 23, 2007

The design may be a little over the top but check out this cool new Broadband Speed Text tool.

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