It's snowing in Boston and my American flight has been cancelled but Virgin America claims their 8:35am flight is going to leave on time.  So here I am in the Virgin gate area.  Wish me luck. At this point there are a ton of people I'm hoping to hook up with at eComm 2009.  The agenda looks reall...

For me personally, FiOS is the least of the ISP evils. And as it turns out, the service appears to be popping up everywhere these days. But knowing this brought up an interesting question for me personally - do people base their living arrangements around their Internet connectivity needs? Myself fo...

Got a new toy. Okay, I didn't get a new toy. I just found a new use for an old toy. Which is just as good. I've dealt with a couple of different cell phone providers over the years: Alltel, T-Mobile, Verizon … and others that are no longer in business or have been absorbed by others....

One of the things that surprised me at eComm was the audience reaction to hearing that most cell sites have only one, or perhaps two, T1 or E1 links going to them.  eComm was a sophisticated audience but they weren't familiar with this kind of operational detail. Of course, I've seen a lot of d...

Time Warner Cable's planned experiment with tiered charging for Internet access has generated a flurry of coverage in the blogsphere, but no new insights (at least that I've seen). The primary problem ISP's complain about is that 5% of their customers use 90% of the available bandwidth and when they...

An RCR Wireless article reports: Sprint Nextel Corp. and T-Mobile USA Inc. urged the Federal Communications Commission to embrace a plan to allocate vacant TV channels -- known as white spaces -- on a fixed-licensed basis for wireless backhaul services. And quotes Sprint & T-Mobile from their FC...