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Go To GeQuote! GeoQuote is a free, real time carrier services pricing and locating tool. This article is a brief summary of GeoQuote and how it is used. There are over 3,000 carriers or broadband providers in the USA offering a wide range of connectivity and bandwidth...
Local ISPs appear to be falling over themselves in a rush to offer 10Gbps broadband Internet services to residential customers. We ask: why are they doing it? And: is 10Gbps really necessary for residential users? When the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee launched its own 1Gbps residential...
SEACOM, whose investment in a submarine fiber optic network connecting Africa to Europe and the Asia-Pacific triggered an avalanche of privately funded submarine cables in Africa, is mulling investing in the last mile. The SEACOM submarine network, with most of its landing points in East Africa,...
Industry leaders at the International Telecoms Week (ITW) conference held in May in Chicago addressed the need for accelerating the investment in infrastructure to facilitate Africa’s broadband growth. We must also add that human capacity building is important to ensure the development of cost efficient...
Improving broadband connectivity in America and addressing the digital divide between rural communities/inner cities and the rest of the country require some level of political intervention. Of the two major candidates running for president, Secretary Hillary Clinton has put forth a specific broadband plan to...
The insatiable demand for high speed Internet access, driven primarily by video, has triggered the deployment of 1Gbps and beyond in cities throughout the United States. 1Gbps or 1,000Mbps is about 60 times the US average advertised broadband speed. It may sound like ultra-fast access speeds...
Continued growth in demand for high speed Internet is pushing the rapid deployment of high data rate access networks. According to the US broadband report, about 59% of Americans can access high speed Internet at 100Mbps or higher. Over 30 Million American families can now...