Clippings:
Cities, county could provide Internet
Bremerton Sun, February 24, 2002;
By Ed Friedrich
Kitsap finance and technology experts are exploring whether high-speed
Internet service should be a public utility akin to sewer, water and
electricity....
"It's really the transportation industry of the 21st Century,...
It supplants the need to move goods and people. This is an essential
service that will define society, where and how people will earn a
living."
But who should deliver the high-speed Internet service to customers?
"We would prefer to have private industry do this, but on the other hand
we feel that high-speed access is the fourth utility of the future and if
we're going to be competitive in Kitsap County we've got to have it..."
Closing the gap on distance
learning, colleges turn to
updated Internet
Seattle Times, October 11, 1999 by Lynne K. Varner
GIGAPOP, according to many computer scientists
and educators, is a faster and more
efficient Internet system that educators hope
will transform distance learning into an alternative
teaching method on par with classroom teaching.
Cary looks at high-tech highway [By CHRIS O'BRIEN and KYLE YORK
SPENCER, Staff Writers, News Observer, 4/5/99
CARY -- People once made towns
into centers of commerce by building
them next to rivers and railroads. As
electronic commerce grows, some think
it is just as important for a town to be
located next to a high-speed ramp to the
Internet.
That's why Cary is considering
building a $60 million fiber-optic network
ANDY ORAM: The Internet and the
International Telecommunications
Union [NANDO}
Two dangers may arise as the ITU tries to move beyond its
traditional
role in managing transmissions and allocating spectrum. The first is
that the organization will stumble over other bodies that have handled
Internet standards quite well, such as the legendary Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF). So the ITU has contacted the IETF
and other such organizations to inquire about what role each
organization could play.
The other danger is that the ITU could impose a bureaucratic or
centralized broadcast model on the Internet.
AT&T-TCI:
TELECOM UNBOUND. Business Week, July 6, 1998 (cover story).
"The merger could deliver on the promise of
melding telephones, TVs, and computers....
in an ironic twist, AT&T (T), the company that has perhaps missed
the most opportunities in the new world of digital communications, has
come up with the deal that, if it works, will take advantage of all
these
trends -- and could be the catalyst for other deals and business plans
that break the bottleneck and finally deliver on the promise of digital
convergence. ''This is the deal that's going to get competition
going,'' says former FCC Commissioner Reed Hundt. ''This is exactly what
regulators envisioned--consumers having choice.''"
GTE, US West go different routes for
DSL approval ; Seattle Times,
Thursday, June 18, 1998; by Peter Lewis
"While US West is cooling its heels - under orders from
state regulators to postpone introduction of new high-speed
Internet-access technology - radio ads from rival GTE
are airing locally to "soften" the market for the new service.
Pretty much whenever it sees fit - but probably not
before mid-July - GTE will start taking orders for the service, called
digital subscriber line, or DSL."
US West must postpone Net-access
line ; Seattle Times,
Tuesday, June 16, 1998; by Peter Lewis
"Acting on a request by Internet service providers
(ISPs) who didn't
want to be left out in the cold, state regulators
yesterday ordered US West to delay deployment of a new technology that
promises high-speed access to the Internet.
Under a ruling issued by the Washington state
Utilities and Transportation Commission, the service - called
digital subscriber
line, or DSL - will be delayed until July 9. US West
had planned to roll it out Friday in Washington state."
Business Week, October 13, 1997 (Telecom Cowboy)
Wired on wireless: Prices, promises duel
in hot cell-phone market Seattle Times,
Tuesday, Sept. 23, 1997 by Shelby Gilje.
You can't open a newspaper or turn on the TV or radio these
days without being bombarded by cellular/wireless
phone ads. They promise a free phone, free activation, free
minutes or airtime - the list goes on.
"Clinton readies Internet policy", Seattle Times, May 22, 1997
