Recently announced, ACS is apparently investing in a large “pipe” to Oregon to expand its connectivity capacity. Using the acronym AKORN to describe the Alaska-Oregon network connection leaves me wondering if ACS really has or is nuts? Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
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.
GCI recently got some press over their revolutionary 7 years late launch of Video on Demand. Yay.
Okay, seriously, I’m just not seeing the return on a $10M investment for video on demand when I can get infinitely more options online. C’mon, you have to get off your fat ass and go the grocery sooner or later and good ‘ol Blockbuster is probably in the same parking lot anyway! Read the rest of this entry »
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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