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AT&T customer since 1960 buys WSJ print ad to complain of slow speeds

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Synergee) A man who has been an AT&T customer since 1960 has a message for CEO John Stankey about the company’s failure to upgrade DSL areas to modern Internet service. Aaron Epstein, 90, is so frustrated by his 3Mbps Internet plan that he took out a Wall Street Journal ad […]

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Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP

Jared Mauch installed about five miles’ worth of this fiber cable. [credit: Jared Mauch ] The old saying “if you want something done right, do it yourself” usually isn’t helpful when your problem is not having good Internet service. But for one man in rural Michigan named Jared Mauch, who happens to be a network […]

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Verizon up Wiring 500K Houses with FiOS to Repay years-long Battle NYC

Expand / A Verizon FiOS truck at Manhattan on September 15, 2017. (charge: Getty Images | Smith Collection | Gado) Verizon has agreed to deliver FiOS fiber-to-the-home support to a different 500,000 families in new york from July 2023, settling a suit within Verizon’s failure to cable the whole town as needed within a franchise […]

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Eero for Service Providers: Eero Wi-Fi Net targeted at ISPs

Expand / / A trio of Wi-Fi Eero Pro devices such as these should offer excellent Wi-Fi protection and functionality for any residence. (charge: Eero) This Tuesday, Eero–among the initial and most common Wi-Fi-mesh suppliers –declared a brand new hardware and applications application which aims ISPs instead of retail clients. Ars talked about the new […]

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AT&T kills DSL, leaves Thousands of Houses without fiber Web

Synergee) AT&T has deployed fiber-to-the-home Web to less than 30% of the families in its own 21-state land, as shown by a fresh report that states AT&T has concentrated rich, non-rural regions in its own fiber updates. The analysis, co-written with an AT&T employees marriage and an advocacy group, is also timely, being issued only […]