Category Archives: Broadband

Grassroots Broadband

By Greg Falken | Published: February 11, 2007

Does the following drill sound familiar to you? “You want broadband where? Just give me your phone prefix and I’ll see if it is available”…“Oh I guess its not available there yet. Would you like to leave your info so I can let you know when it becomes available? If enough people in your area [...]

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Fiber To the Home

By Greg Falken | Published: February 1, 2007

Right after my last post, in which I talked about really high speed internet, I became aware of a number of news reports about fiber to the home (FTTH), a.k.a. fiber to the premises (FTTP). Verizon plans to spend $17.5B (yes, billion) on capital expenditures in 2007–most of it allocated to a fiber to the [...]

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Who Cares About Broadband?

By Greg Falken | Published: January 30, 2007

Why should we care if there is widespread broadband Internet access in Tuolumne County? There are plenty of areas of our lives that do not need more technology and the complexity that goes along with it. We can get a couple of hundred channels of digital TV from Comcast, what more do we want? Allow [...]

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