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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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Yes, Stephenson is admitting that their ONLY reasonably priced and widely available broadband product is obsolete.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
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Our FCC’s latest reports on fixed broadband and phone competition include a few interesting disclosures, current as of June 2010, particularly the fact that the majority of U.S. internet users don’t see more than 4 Mbps downstream. Other notable FCC findings:
