The City That Cut the Cord
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Sleepy Spokane, Wash., has a secret: it's the wireless hot spot of the future
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By John Wiedenhoeft, The Wisconsin State Journal  Feb. 16--It's fitting one of the first hits of a new video era is being filmed in a city that is banking its economic future on technology.
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By Justin Buehler, Victoria Advocate, Texas  Jun. 4--BAY CITY -- The entire city of Bay City is going Wi-Fi.
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Hundreds of the cityâs best and brightest are leaving, driven away by crime, high rents and what many say is a dissipating sense of possibility.
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By Don Spatz, Reading Eagle, Pa. Dec. 16--The city has reached a 15-year agreement with Comcast Corp. for cable TV and high-speed Internet services that will provide the city with one-time payments totaling $325,000.
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By JEFFREY KELLEY  Cavalier Telephone has cut a few legal corners that cable companies must take to sell its television service, city officials say.  Cavalier, however, disagrees with a city lawsuit that claims the company is breaking federal and state law.
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For years, consumers who wanted to cut the cord with their cable company found that getting television and high-speed Internet service often meant the inconvenience of finding two new providers.
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When Gardner resident James Bargnesi woke up yesterday, NBC, Fox, and CBS channels from across the country had disappeared from his satellite dish, disrupting his normal routine. At Satellite Video, a satellite television installation company in White River Junction, Vt., calls began to trickle in from customers upset that they had lost the Manchester, N.H., ABC affiliate that provided their ...
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By Miriam Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Dec. 18--The grand experiment is about to begin.   Philadelphia's push to become the country's first major city with free, or at least cheap, wireless Internet connections, takes a big step forward this month as EarthLink Inc.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  May 30--Last year, when the state Department of Public Utility Control ruled that AT&T's method of delivering television service through telephone lines was not the same technology as cable television, it was a blessed event for consumers.
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By Jim Wyss, The Miami Herald  Mar. 4--One of the most well-funded battles of the last legislative session is heating up again as the cable industry and telephone companies face off over the right to provide cable TV service.
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Will cable competition destroy the local emergency alert system in Los Angeles County? We're not willing to find out.
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Ambitious plans for big Wi-Fi networks to provide free or low-cost wireless Internet access are being abandoned or scaled back by US cities as the economics of the deals turn out to be more challenging than expected.
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By Mason Stockstill, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif.  Sep. 13--ONTARIO -- For the first time in a long time -- perhaps ever --  residents will soon have a choice for their cable TV service.
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Google and Earthlink tried, and failed, disappearing in a sea of bureaucratic red tape. Now a startup hopes to persuade San Franciscans to voluntarily put radio repeaters on their rooftops. Good luck with that.
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Twenty-five years ago this Tuesday, a brash startup cable channel with a strange name began broadcasting. Its goal: Provide sports programming 24 hours a day. The concept behind ESPN was solid, but the execution was shaky in those early days of bouncing a signal off a satellite from a half-built building in a muddy field in then-rural Bristol, Conn. Today, ...
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By Jeffrey Kelley, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 8--Cavalier Telephone has cut a few legal corners that cable  companies must take to sell its television service, city officials say.