Posts Tagged with ‘earthlink’

The utopian ideal of cities blanketed in free WiFi hotspots, with communal access for all as the “great equalizer”, is slowly being abandoned by ISPs and city governments as the cost of implementation hits their bottom lines. Two main proponents of bringing WiFi to municipalities across the United states have been Google and Earthlink, and in fact several projects have been started by both companies in recent years.
The momentum for the projects is failing, even after a year of concerted [...]

For years, companies and individuals involved with the development of both the business and residential infrastructures enabling the deployment of widespread Internet access in the US have been admitting that they haven’t quite constructed the most state-of-the-art network(s) in the world. Average speeds of downstream and upstream transfers are all but snail-like in comparison to those recorded in Japan, South Korea, and several countries residing within the European continent.
The most pressing issue facing the US in terms of technological advancement [...]