Posts tagged 'broadband'
More on DC broadband – Promised versus delivered speeds
Posted: Oct. 8, 2010 | Tags: broadband, Comcast, Connected, Ookla
A big issue in the broadband debate is whether companies are delivering on their promises when it comes to connection speeds. Ookla, the Seattle-based technology company that I wrote about earlier this week regarding value, looked at this issue as well.
The results in the U.S. were surprisingly good. The survey shows that actual speeds were 93.02 percent of promised speeds in the U.S., ranking the nation in 11th place. That’s based on 258,227 surveys nationwide.
The top five states were Delaware (101.55 percent); Massachusetts (100.06 percent); Maryland (99.68 percent); Rhode Island ...
District pays a lot per broadband bit
Posted: Oct. 6, 2010 | Tags: broadband, Connected, economy, net neutrality
Washingtonians get less bang for their broadband buck than every state in the nation except Alaska, according to a survey released Tuesday.
District subscribers don’t pay much per month ($43.72, fifth when compared to the 50 states) but when you add connection speeds to the equation, it’s a different story.
The median monthly cost for broadband in the District was $11.93 per megabit per second (Mbs), according to Ookla, the Seattle-based technology company that conducted the survey. That’s nearly double the national median cost of $6.13 Mbps.
Megabits per second is a measure of ...
All Internet is equal -- except when it's not
Posted: Aug. 11, 2010 | Tags: broadband, FCC, Federal Communication Commission, Google, Verizon
Any agreement between business foes Verizon Communications Inc. and Google Inc. should raise a red flag for those concerned with the public interest.
In matters regarding information technology, the public is best served when there are competitors tearing at one another’s throats. The Federal Communications Commission and Congress, unfortunately, act more as protectors of the free flow of commerce than as countervailing influences against corporate power.
So it is with suspicion that we should view the legislative framework announced Tuesday by the two corporate superpowers. Two items in particular raise immediate concern.
First, Google has given up on the ...
Lots of Internet competition - just not at home
Posted: Aug. 4, 2010 | Tags: broadband, Connected, FCC, Federal Communication Commission
This post also appears in the PostTech blog written by Cecilia Kang of The Washington Post. We’re working together on a project for the next several months looking at disparities of broadband access in Washington, D.C. The Obama administration has promised to expand high-speed Internet connections to all American homes. We look here, in the backyard of the nation’s capital, at the quality, speed and price of connections for residents.
Please reach out to us at dunbar@american.edu and/or kangc@washpost.com with your thoughts, questions and suggestions.
At first glance, the broadband market in ...
