AT&T quietly rolled the announcement on their homepage recently that WiMax is now available in the Anchorage area. Reading the fine print, it’s obvious they’re not reaching everywhere in town yet. The $19.95 price point looks attractive at first, but you can quickly deduct they are trying to rope you in on the low end bundle deal with local and long-distance plans then tacking on the less-than-interesting 384K Internet option. As much as I am really excited about WiMax, this really stinks. Read the rest of this entry »
Here it is, direct from the horse’s mouth, a message from News Corps. President Peter Chernin telling cable companies (and media companies) to stop their obstructionist ways. Watch the video on AdAge Whether every day individuals realize it or not, we do control the marketplace and it’s beginning to show.
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Remember the days of $19.99 internet where you bought a basic 28.8K or even better yet a V.92 56K dial-up account? Yeah, it sucked - but in many ways I long for those days and I’ll tell you why.
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While I am not at liberty to divulge all the juicy details, I have it on pretty good authority that at&t Alascom will be rolling out WiMAX in the Anchorage area this year. They’ve been in Juneau since last fall and have been testing here in Anchorage for several months.
The golden question is: Will it compete with DSL/cable internet?
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Rumor has it that GCI is talking about a significant speed increase in their cable modem products. The word is that speeds as high as 10Mb/s down with 1Mb/s up are scheduled to hit sometime soon. I assume that this means GCI is again pioneering the new cable modem standards as they have done in the past. Comcast recently announced their plans at CES 2008 to make 100Gb/s internet access via their cable network using DOCSIS 3.0. Knowing GCI, they’ve already got DOCSIS 3.0 in place and are just waiting to pull the trigger.
We’re all waiting GCI… don’t disappoint us.
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