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Why the FCC Broadband Plan Matters
On Tuesday the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is delivering their Broadband Plan to Congress. Most of us in the tech community are anticipating the plan and are eager to read it in its entirety when released. Within this plan, the FCC has the unenviable task of encapsulating the complexities of the markets, technologies, other country’s use of [...]
Continue reading...Comcast: Faster Services = More Control
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Comcast’s recent launch of a 100Mbps business class service for $369.95 per month will provide a great option for small to midsize businesses, at the same time I’m troubled because the continued acceleration of broadband speeds at low prices equals even more Comcast control of our local internet broadband access. What happens when Comcast is [...]
Continue reading...Comcast Launches 100Mbps Tier in MSP
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
The Twin Cities is the first market in the nation to enjoy Comcast’s newest high speed offering: 100 megabit per second business class service, leveraging their investment in DOCSIS 3.0, a cable internet standard. Their new service offering delivers up to 100 Megabits per second (Mbps) downloads and up to 15 Mbps uploads for $369.95 per month. If [...]
Continue reading...FCC Launches Blogband
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
At Minnov8, we recognize that the most fundamentally important driver and catalyst of internet and web innovation is broadband. With big pipes and significant carrying capacity, entrepreneurs and innovators like you find ways to capitalize on it and people use the internet more when they enjoy high speed and ubiquitous access. With that innovation comes [...]
Continue reading...FCC Launches Broadband Site
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The Federal Communications Commission has launched Broadband.gov, a website that’s focused on all of the data and initiatives being gathered as the Federal government marches toward a National Broadband Plan 225 days from now (via BlandinOnBroadband). The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) was signed into law on February 17, 2009. The Broadband [...]
Continue reading...U.S. Home Broadband Adoption Hits 63%
Monday, June 22, 2009
Readers of Minnov8 are skewed toward those highly interested or involved in internet and web-centric technology and services. As such, the latest findings of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project will be of significant interest. These findings illustrate a departure from the stagnation in home high-speed adoption rates that had prevailed from December, [...]
Continue reading...Broadband Perspective
Friday, April 24, 2009
Mike O’Connor, urban representative on the Minnesota Ultra High Speed Task Force, recently interviewed the “father of the internet” Vint Cerf, as well as the head of Best Buy’s Geek Squad, Robert Stephens about their perspectives on broadband. After the jump, you can watch Mike’s interviews (broken in to chunks due to YouTube’s limits on filesize). [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 14
Saturday, November 15, 2008
We talk with Mike O’Connor from the MN Ultra High-Speed Task Force, a self-described community organizer, entrepreneur and tech-geek (blog here & bio here) turned business-leader (and, I might add, a gentlemen farmer turning his Wisconsin 420 acres back to its original pristine state). Mike also became moderately famous in Minnesota as one of the people [...]
Continue reading...FCC Broadband Ruling & MN Task Force
Friday, August 22, 2008
If you’re reading Minnov8 you use, understand and undoubtedly rely upon the internet and your broadband connection. You may also be building a business or revenue stream upon the internet-as-a-platform for innovation, and as such you absolutely must stay close to net neutrality, FCC rulings and, most importantly, what our Minnesota Ultra High-Speed Broadband Task [...]
Continue reading...The Railroad and Minnesota Broadband
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
In 1868, the railroad bypassed Forestville, MN and the town died. The decline came slowly and over time my distant relatives, Thomas and Mary Meighen, saw the town dwindle, people move away, and they were left in an empty town with their farm and a general store attached to their home. Farm workers, paid in [...]
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