Care for Home Solar Panels with Your Honda? Next stage to fund Google Fiber?

Care for Home Solar Panels with Your Honda? Next stage to fund Google Fiber?

Googles next steps after Kansas City

[The hubbub and buzz around Google’s Kansas City fiver to the home (FTTH) project has died down as Google over the next year focuses on building out its network.

Google's secret strategy with the Kansas City Fiber project

[I have long been perplexed at how Google plans to make a profit with their Kansas City Fiber project.

A novel way to fund broadband FTTH Internet - converting old coax/copper into microgrids

[I have long argued that we need to find new business models to underwrite costs of next generation broadband – Fiber to the Home ( FTTH) if we ever hope to breakup the existing broadband oligopoly.

What the Green Bay Packers can teach us about broadband

If Green Bay, Wis., a town of 105,000 people, can raise $70 million to rehabilitate its football field by selling $250 stock shares, I bet $250 there’s a community in America that can raise $2 or $3 million for a broadband network. Any takers?

New York Times on how universities and R&E networks can help community broadband deployment

[Tom Friedman's OpEd piece in today's NYTimes http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/04/opinion/friedman-so-much-fun-so-irrelevant.html?_r=1&hp captures the essence of why Internet and broadband are so critical to the future of our economy.

Customer Owned Fiber Network in Durban South Africa

“@tim_poulus: Successful customer-owned network near Durban (SA): FTTH beating ADSL pricing, plans uncapped service. http://t.co/rIaSyCe”