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    Republic Wireless Caught in a Public Lie

    davoice:

    I just caught Republic Wireless (republicwireless.com) in a public lie today.

    1 08.16.12

    New Geeks in Charlotte

    There’s a few new geeks in Charlotte and they’d like to meet you.  Anyion is proud to announce its latest business partner in the North Carolina region…

    From their bio:

    CLT Geek strives to have all technical assistance provided to its customers by a geek who is geographically nearby.  This allows us to respond quickly and provide the highest possible levels of customer service.

    Together, our collective of IT Professionals accounts for over 55 years of IT experience.  Our senior geek has over 15 years of IT management experience.  
    We can tackle almost any IT project.  Some of our areas of expertise include:
    • Corporate and Small Business Networks
    • Home and SOHO Networks
    • Virus Removal
    • Spyware Removal
    • Scam Mitigation
    • Phone Systems, Call Centers and Automated Attendants
    • Broadband Circuits
    • Backup Internet Connections
    • MPLS and VPNs
    • Firewalls and Intrusion Detection
    • PC Hardware and Inventory Management
    • PC Software Licensing
    • Building and Datacenter Lease Negotiation
    • Office Design and Layout
    • Datacenter and Server Rack Design/Layout
    • Backup Power Supplies
    • Fiber and Metro Ethernet
    • Wireless (WiFi) Network Design and Installation
    • Printers and Copiers of All Sizes
    • Phone Service
    • Smartphones and Apps
    • Websites
    • Ecommerce and Online Shopping Venues
    • Technology Contract Negotiation
    • Full Color Printing
    • Banners and Signs
    • Business Cards and Postcards

    Wireless Patents: The latest tech quagmire

    You know things have gotten bad in the technology patent war arena when government officials start to come out and say that the whole quagmire is not a healthy thing. Hopefully this will settle down in the next year but don’t get your hopes up.

    Frontier Accepts $ for Broadband Expansion

    Frontier Communications has just announced they agreed to accept $775 per line currently unserved by broadband in exchange for promising to deliver high speed access to every subscriber in its territories. They monies will come from the Connect American fund. While there is no word on what speeds will be used or what technology will be deployed, this is good news for customers who are in underserved or non-served rural areas of Frontier’s territory.

    Plan B Locates Lost Android Phones

    Android: If you ever lose your phone and don’t have a contingency plan in place, you can remotely install Plan B on your phone and locate it instantly.

    FCC: ISPs Deliver 80% of Advertised Speeds

    As part of an FCC effort to improve their broadband data collection, the company last year hired UK firm SamKnows to provide a better glimpse at the real speeds consumers were seeing. SamKnows gave 9,000 volunteers home routers with custom firmware designed to monitor daily connection performance, and the FCC today released their first report based on that data. The report examines the performance of thirteen major U.S. ISPs, and by and large shows that most ISPs deliver at least 80% of the speeds advertised. However, some ISPs perform better than others in this regard, and several ISPs aren’t delivering the speeds consumers are paying plenty for — particularly at peak hours.

    Our favorite setting in Google Apps Calendar

    “Speedy meetings: Encourage meeting efficiency and get to your next meeting on time. 30 minute meetings end 5 minutes early, 1 hour meetings end 10 minutes early, etc.”  We hold meetings like this and haven’t had a staff meeting go over 30 minutes in over 3 years.

    Bandwidth caps are rate hikes

    It should come as no surprise that many ISPs are trying to boost profits while curtailing capital expenditures.  The question is whether or not we let them get away with it.

    AT&T Admits Its DSL is Obsolete

    Speaking at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners summer meeting in Los Angeles, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson apparently was quite unusually transparent:

    “We built DSL back in 1997 to chase David’s company and now that’s obsolete,” Stephenson stated (and confirmed by attendees), referring to Comcast and Comcast EVP David Cohen.

    Yes, Stephenson is admitting that their ONLY reasonably priced and widely available broadband product is obsolete.  Guess maybe they should have thought about that before they decided to forego investment in fiber to the home in order to placate shortsighted, short term profit oriented investors.

    So now they’ve built out part of U-Verse… which can’t compete with cable, have no backup product waiting in the wings, and will likely have to switch to fiber-to-the-home at some point - which will mean they will have spent money on new deployments twice and spent twice as much as Verizon in the process.

    via DSLReports

    "Technology, when done ambitiously, is a form of art and as with painting, it’s always interesting to see how three different artists have approached the same subject."