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Broadband Bytes for 2017-10-13

By Jesse | October 14, 2017 - 5:00 pm |October 14, 2017 Broadband Bytes

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• Big incumbents are blaming a policy they don't like for not spending money that they actually are. https://t.co/4tdrp4GicK ->
• Google is abandoning TV service for new markets while jacking the price in existing ones. https://t.co/rA78EVKvAl ->
• I've said it before and I'll say it again: Netflix is a HBO clone. https://t.co/50TAButDb5 ->
• Broadband Bytes for 2017-10-06 https://t.co/AWMvJpObI0 ->
• You know what, CenturyLink? We've heard the "we can upgrade" speech many times before. https://t.co/ynuWs9qcqo ->
• New day, same empty federal broadband plan. https://t.co/hibpMJljYl ->
• The list of companies excited about Pai is reason enough to be worried. https://t.co/WRDCDeSeiT ->
• It's almost like depending on giant companies to solve your Internet problem is worse than muni/co-op efforts. https://t.co/7uG5Xdjfkz ->
• CenturyLink is going to further abandon wired service with fixed wireless instead. https://t.co/HcmEacgPiR ->

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Broadband Bytes for 2017-10-06

By Jesse | October 7, 2017 - 5:00 pm |October 7, 2017 Broadband Bytes

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• Broadband Bytes for 2017-09-29 https://t.co/rtDfUqG7Vc ->
• Gee, I wonder if other competing video products will start to have worse performance. https://t.co/gTCUNYh36F ->
• Further evidence that the wireless market is no substitute for wired service. https://t.co/RssFQwsmoA ->
• You have confidence in your electric, gas, and water meters. Why not broadband meters? https://t.co/zH6tsRxeik ->

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Broadband Bytes for 2017-09-29

By Jesse | September 30, 2017 - 5:00 pm |September 30, 2017 Broadband Bytes

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• Broadband Bytes for 2017-09-22 https://t.co/Wsuqbqom1k ->
• The takeaway: if you're willing to pay for expansion, they'll put service anywhere you want it. https://t.co/RqspDvErFS ->
• If you haven't yet figured out that Google is trying to find a way out of Fiber I can't help you. https://t.co/c3Zv2TQbom ->

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Broadband Bytes for 2017-09-22

By Jesse | September 23, 2017 - 5:00 pm |September 23, 2017 Broadband Bytes

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• The dark side of incumbents building fiber is competitors getting shut out of the new network. https://t.co/6VLJ2Nfs4H ->
• The decline of pay TV is reaching crisis level for telcos and cablecos. https://t.co/CEh3zDde1D ->
• Verizon does a pump and dump on rural users, but tell me again about how wireless is the bees knees. https://t.co/zvbid4YXMi ->
• Broadband Bytes for 2017-09-15 https://t.co/jRBTxx00Wn ->
• Who has your online privacy back? Nobody but good independent ISPs, apparently. https://t.co/M5nkcqO43r ->
• Rural fiber is a must because rural copper is still rotting on the vine. https://t.co/UcmsfAgsRl ->
• Atlanta is the latest city to find out that Google is quietly retreating from building fiber. https://t.co/QcSuhPG7LQ ->

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Broadband Bytes for 2017-09-15

By Jesse | September 16, 2017 - 5:00 pm |September 16, 2017 Broadband Bytes

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• Broadband Bytes for 2017-09-08 https://t.co/xvWbvsQY9x ->
• GOED can't bring in rural jobs without broadband. They need to get to work on that. #utpol https://t.co/H9toNXkfYI https://t.co/Jb3jD1KnAv ->
• Gigabit is becoming the new normal, but many areas are being left behind. https://t.co/HxYY0SO9iK ->
• A home without broadband might be one you can't sell. https://t.co/LA8gmTJHJH ->
• Ely NV is in serious decline. Lackluster broadband isn't helping. https://t.co/x9aObedeNP ->
• A lot of Utahns have Internet connections. https://t.co/IdRDQT23c5 ->
• Google is rapidly losing interest in being an ISP. https://t.co/ElQbW0YgKp ->
• Amazon demands fiber. Many other businesses do too. https://t.co/PMGc3rrIjE ->

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Broadband Bytes for 2017-09-08

By Jesse | September 9, 2017 - 5:00 pm |September 9, 2017 Broadband Bytes

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• Broadband Bytes for 2017-09-01 https://t.co/woDl1PsHaC ->
• The US is vastly underspending on fiber. https://t.co/HgTKSGApVN ->
• Comcast's version of "uncertainty" it not getting exactly what they want on a permanent basis. https://t.co/h59ryE555u ->
• If you won't say it on the record, maybe it isn't true. https://t.co/kqaiT2zMXi ->
• Broadband speeds are going up, but the urban/rural divide is wider than ever. https://t.co/Z7wIKickMu ->
• Those of us living in rural CenturyLink markets already knew that we can't get decent speeds from them. https://t.co/vvXW3IJsl0 ->

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Broadband Bytes for 2017-09-01

By Jesse | September 2, 2017 - 5:00 pm |September 2, 2017 Broadband Bytes

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• Broadband Bytes for 2017-08-25 https://t.co/6zxJnjDAHS ->
• This white spaces fight has really dragged on. https://t.co/wqmKgL6V9Y ->
• UTOPIA has expanded to 3500 homes in West Valley City just this year. https://t.co/nh79jNJjqM ->
• CenturyLink just can't stay out of trouble. https://t.co/hVVRe0XupQ ->
• How completely has Google stopped expanding in Kansas City? They're refunding install fees. Uh oh. https://t.co/jsV9NUYEjg ->
• If it wasn't obvious, the public overwhelmingly supports net neutrality (even if they aren't sure what it is). https://t.co/4Ah6gEXFDH ->
• Canadian fiber networks allow competition. For now. https://t.co/hqJ7Ju3igw ->
• It doesn't matter what you put in your franchise agreements if the incumbent will just sue to get out of it. https://t.co/RVESQHFelK ->

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Broadband Bytes for 2017-08-25

By Jesse | August 26, 2017 - 5:00 pm |August 26, 2017 Broadband Bytes

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• Broadband Bytes for 2017-08-18 https://t.co/XhxCIUlY1u ->
• UTOPIA is making some bond payments and the new UIA bond will be completely covered by subscribers. Suck it, UTA. https://t.co/cXqbz5ZmZA ->
• Telcos don't upgrade, so they lose customers, so they don't have revenue to upgrade, so they lose customers… https://t.co/VnLW5nByyi ->
• If the wireless marketplace were as competitive as some claim, this wouldn't be able to happen. https://t.co/ldMY1pWx5k ->
• As limited as this is, it's kind of a big deal for an incumbent to start going outside of their normal markets. https://t.co/LT55E12Vqt ->
• Redlining is real. Rural areas feel it too. https://t.co/EPThxI4LLH ->
• This is why almost all rural fiber has been built using USF and RUS money. https://t.co/duFX8b6bAS ->
• Is it time to stop treating mobile and fixed broadband differently? (Hint: yes.) https://t.co/kdnflkGYIu ->
• Every state should be pushing this hard to improve broadband. https://t.co/BgnVMANGyB ->
• Fractured streaming services with incomplete content could spell trouble for OTT video. https://t.co/7qIyoCapf5 ->
• Some interesting points about Title II, anti-trust, and net neutrality. https://t.co/LUl91QM6ji ->

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Broadband Bytes for 2017-08-18

By Jesse | August 19, 2017 - 5:00 pm |August 19, 2017 Broadband Bytes

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• Broadband Bytes for 2017-08-11 https://t.co/WppgzSY8k1 ->
• Don't expect much from the FCC over the next few years. https://t.co/ql6RGZ6GIl ->
• FCC "improves" broadband by moving the goalposts, declaring victory. https://t.co/5jJpPV3fFd ->
• If you can't license content, make your own. In a walled garden where you won't license it. https://t.co/d9U2noOAXQ ->
• Cox puts a $50 price tag on unlimited data. https://t.co/M6fPukcjjO ->
• Federal judge calls incumbent claims on right of way hogwash. https://t.co/4NLejjDFLo ->
• Remember when the "experts" claimed that cordcutting was a passing fad? Good times. https://t.co/mK3CPYfJX4 ->
• Sure, blame net neutrality for Nazis. Seems perfectly reasonable. https://t.co/qbvmWqYlYt ->
• Verizon says that DSL is a dead end technology. https://t.co/JBcBb0k1RE ->

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Broadband Bytes for 2017-08-11

By Jesse | August 12, 2017 - 5:00 pm |August 12, 2017 Broadband Bytes

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• Broadband Bytes for 2017-08-04 https://t.co/BvlXHYaCHs ->
• Caps are the new normal. https://t.co/VVnUbHQmP7 ->
• Wait, you mean failing to upgrade your network leads to losing customers? Someone alert the press! https://t.co/HzT6JfMf1O ->
• You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. https://t.co/gW0ke9koxs ->
• Apparently every content producer is gonna make you pay them directly from here on out. https://t.co/ch4BkSGPcw ->
• "Let them use wireless"? Did I miss Marie Antoinette being appointed as an FCC commissioner? https://t.co/9c1hkgWC56 ->
• Users are hungry for the kind of speed and reliability that only fiber can offer. https://t.co/H13Tq0QrLK ->
• The cost of building rural broadband is completely eclipsed by the economic benefits of doing so. https://t.co/yVPp7Qxbkk ->
• Agreed, but there's also no reason to stop at the Wasatch Front. Rural cities and towns need fiber too. https://t.co/jibhATrXDf ->
• "Free" captive portals do nothing to get people online. https://t.co/xQnx4zzIr8 ->
• Do content owners not get that potential customers will turn to piracy if they refuse to do affordable streaming? https://t.co/20i4e3Iqc3 ->

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