Andrew Seybold posted a highly insightful and (as one has come to expect from Mr. Seybold) empirically grounded commentary piece this week about Urban Broadband and corporate/municipal relationships. Here is a teaser:
Over the past few years, the FCC has been promoting broadband to rural America, which is a good thing. Broadband should be available to everyone. Further, it has been issuing reports about the true speed of broadband services in areas where broadband is available and has concluded that it is getting faster. While the FCC has concentrated on rural broadband, several cities and companies are once again looking at providing broadband to more urban areas.
Within the past month, three different announcements caught my eye. The first was the report that downtown Chicago could become a mega-hotspot under plans the mayor has for that city. Next was the announcement by the City of Seattle that the City Council had passed legislation to provide better broadband services to homes and businesses using the city’s fiber network to offer fiber to the home through partnerships with private third parties for high-speed Internet services via the 500 miles of fiber owned by Seattle. The third was the recent announcement by Google that it will be providing fiber to the home in Kansas City. Read more...
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