What’s To Come

After my last post on Net Neutrality, I received some feedback from one of my friends who is in governmental affairs for a major service provider. He pointed me to some very thoughtful articles on the subject and I wanted to share them with you. FCC’s Republicans: New broadband rules would ruin credibility, have global [...]

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Net neutrality, as it’s known, is the idea that the Internet should be like roads and highways — generally open to all traffic.

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Last week the National Broadband Plan (NBP) was released by the FCC. I have a special interest in this plan due to my work on the Information Technology and Communications committee for the National League of Cities.  On December 2007 our committee released a resolution calling for a National Broadband Plan. See my post http://www.finitytech.com/wordpress/?p=75 [...]

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An article from marketingcharts.com indicates: The number of US broadband households accessing web-to-TV content will leap to 24 million – and generate $2.9 billion in revenue from streaming services by 2013 See Web-to-TV Will Penetrate 24M Homes by 2013 This article ties with my last post The Future of Television

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Visiting my son in his loft in Lawrence Kansas, I saw the beginning of a new wave of content viewing

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Interesting article with some stats and thoughts regarding where broadband is headed. See The Future of Broadband – Building it Out, Portfolio.com   Spurred by a new wave of Skype-linked families, Hulu-watching flash mobs, and HD-video downloaders, global internet traffic is likely to quadruple by 2012. That’s an internet 75 times larger than it was [...]

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Most Comcast Web service to top 100 Mbps by 2010 – in an article found on sfgate.com. That’s going the right direction! Someone has to lead the charge and it looks as if Comcast has taken the challenge.

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Wired.com had an article today titled “Broadband 2.0 Poised to Reshape Web, TV” talking about Verizon and Comcast driving to speeds of 50 – 100 Mbps and how having those speeds will not only enable, but change the ways people use the media. A much richer experience is in store with audio and video. It’s [...]

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Internet to Hit Full Capacity by 2010

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768Kbps?? fast? Surely you jest! In an article entitled FCC approves new method for tracking broadband’s reach from CNet, and cited by Engadget, there is some movement in realizing all of the data and FCC reports to-date are really bogus and a new way to count who has broadband and what is broadband is a-foot.  [...]

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