I attended the Minnesota Broadband Task Force on Friday October 24. It included a few presentations, as you’ll see below. Most of the presenters were kind enough to allow me to post their PowerPoint slides here. I can’t thank them enough as that allowed me to focus on their presentations rather …
… devices (e.g.cameras, MP3 players, mobile phones) for Internet connectivity. Wayport is largest operator of WiFi hotspots in the U.S. and the largest managed WiFi hot spot service provider (they manage AT &Ts WiFi network). Note: The agenda and some of the presentations for this excellent conference …
Visi, a company many of us are familiar with since their founding in 1994, is Minnesota’s largest locally-owned managed hosting and connectivity provider (11,000 business and residential customers which includes thousands of DSL customers). What most don’t know is that they’re expanding right here …
… that let your kids get online, but not send email, use instant messenger, or post comments. If you opt to let your kids use DSL internet service to contact others, your service provider can compile a list of who they contacted and what websites they visited for you to look over. Safety You don’t only …
… really just looking out for the taxpayer (and its own infrastructure investment). Not satisfied with the current DSL and cable offerings, Monticello hatched an ambitious plan to wire up its entire town with fiber, build an interconnect station, and allow ISPs to link up to the site and offer Internet …
… services from Minnesota.) Loads of people already take advantage of telemedicine applications (though often over POTS lines); examples include 80,000 people who are able to report their vitals to a healthcare provider from home and 1 million people with remote heart monitors. Some people expected …
… for the taxpayer (and its own infrastructure investment). Not satisfied with the current DSL and cable offerings, Monticello hatched an ambitious plan to wire up its entire town with fiber, build an interconnect station, and allow ISPs to link up to the site and offer Internet access over the city …
… to the site and offer Internet access over the city-maintained fiber links. After a vote on the measure passed overwhelmingly last year, Monticello moved to break ground and was promptly sued by the local telephone provider, Bridgewater, a unit of TDS. We’ve already covered the legal filings in that case …
… -Yesterday afternoon, I spent some time on the internet - trying to find a new internet provider for our area. I’ve been thinking of discontinuing our home phone service, which also brings us our DSL (internet service) - because (1) we simply don’t use the house phone that much (because we all have …
… One of them is TDS. While TDS has made some improvements since taking over, Monticello, MN citizens want FTTH service instead of the meager 3MBPS DSL TDS provides. True to telco monopoly form, instead of providing a fiber network, TDS sued when the city decided to build it’s own. Unlike many small …
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