Broadband – Plan8

“What saddens me the most today is that the agency that is supposed to protect you is actually abandoning you.”

P.M. RoanhouseDecember 14, 2017February 8, 2018

Editorial Opinion

While not codified into law by the government until 2014 network neutrality was the underpinning of a gentlemen’s agreement at the start of the internet as a commercial venture after then Senator Al Gore helped write the legislation that took the military Darpa Net and Educations university network system into what would become the internet we know today. No provider […]

Why There Is A Political Right Vs Left War Over Broadband Title II Reclassification

P.M. RoanhouseJuly 31, 2014December 9, 2019

Those who beat a drum for deregulation while on the take from legacy big business don’t care about the issue of broadband monopolies. They have made this a buzzword 24 second news clip Right vs Left debate. Further showing the republican party dragging the worst performing and actually laziest congress in the history of the United States into a further […]

Alcatel-Lucent claims 10,000 Mbps internet over plain old copper telephone line

P.M. RoanhouseJuly 9, 2014July 9, 2014

Culture / Internet Services / Technology / The Future

The Bell Labs R&D division of telecoms giant Alcatel-Lucent has today claimed to set a new world record after they successfully pushed “ultra-broadband” speeds of 10,000 Megabits per second (Mbps) down a traditional copper telephone line using XG-FAST technology, which is an extension of the protocol G.fast (ITU G.9700).

Open Internet Rules & Network Neutrality take serious blow as courts side with Verizon in lawsuit against FCC

P.M. RoanhouseJanuary 15, 2014

Culture / Internet Services / Technology Policy

In the Washington DC federal appeals court on Tuesday, Verizon won a very troubling decision. It is a decision that if not fought could lead to troubling ideas of “toll road” internet prices. Tiers of internet that block certain services like cable packages block certain channels in different cable packages. Independent web services and websites like Netflix, Facebook, Skype, or […]