• Verizon’s Triple Hypocrisy

    Adam Lynn
    December 18, 2009

    In an earlier post about Verizon’s sale of rural assets to Frontier, I highlighted a sad reality about rural broadband. Despite the rhetoric, large Internet service providers have a single focus: How can they make consumers pay as much as possible, while they themselves spend as little as possible?

  • Cable Companies’ Big Internet Swindle

    Adam Lynn
    November 24, 2009

    Most people agree: They pay their cable company too much money. Not only is this view widely held, it’s also backed up by hard numbers.

  • AT&T’s Non-Existent Network

    Adam Lynn
    November 20, 2009

    In an earlier blog post, I discussed AT&T’s failure to adequately perform basic maintenance on its wireless network. First-generation iPhone users were stuck on an extremely slow network built years earlier that failed to offer customers anything approaching acceptable service quality.

  • AT&T's (Almost) Laughable Wireless Coverage

    Adam Lynn
    November 18, 2009

    It seems a day doesn’t go by without news of some fresh controversy breaking about the iPhone. The latest brouhaha concerns Verizon’s new ads targeting AT&T’s inferior 3G coverage.

  • The Dirty Truth about Rural Broadband

    Adam Lynn
    November 10, 2009

    The largest Internet service providers have long paid lip service to connecting America’s rural areas to broadband, even as rural residents remain without service because these ISPs fail to connect them.

  • Questions about Net Neutrality Opponents Still Can't Answer

    Adam Lynn
    October 22, 2009

    As the opponents of Net Neutrality continue their desperate attempts to thwart the FCC from beginning a rulemaking on the issue, we decided it might be helpful for readers to see for themselves the kinds of pretzel-like arguments they’ve twisted themselves into. Here are five fundamental questions Net Neutrality opponents have failed to answer:

  • FCC’s Web Site Needs to Evolve Past Netscape

    Adam Lynn
    August 10, 2009

    Remember Netscape Navigator? If you used dial-up in the mid-90s and hated AOL’s walled garden, chances are that you do.

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