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Date: 24 Dec 2022 11:35:09 -0500
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: CenturyLink Home Internet Review: Say No to DSL, But Yes to
Quantum Fiber
This provider's fiber broadband service reaches 25 states, but its DSL
alternative -- which is even more widely available -- falls short.
By Trey Paul
Late in August, the Federal Communications Commission approved a sale to
move CenturyLink service in 20 states over to Brightspeed, a new
telecommunications and internet service provider. Until that transaction
is finalized (expected to happen sometime in October), you can find
CenturyLink service in 36 states.
CenturyLink Internet may be best known for its former Price for Life
deal. But my first introduction to the company was in 2011 with
CenturyLink Field, home of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks. I thought
CenturyLink was a bank or maybe even an insurance company. It turns out
it's one of the country's largest ISPs, available to over 49 million
people across the country, according to FCC data.
https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/centurylink-internet-review/
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Date: 24 Dec 2022 11:23:40 -0500
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Poor and diverse areas of Seattle and Portland offered
slower and more expensive internet
Kaylee Tornay of InvestigateWest
CenturyLink customers in Seattle and Portland receive wide-ranging
levels of service for the same price, with poorer residents and people
of color more likely to be burdened by slow speeds, according to a new
analysis of digital inequities in U.S. cities.
Seattle had the worst disparities among cities examined in the Pacific
Northwest. About half of its lower-income areas were offered slow
internet, compared with just 19% of upper-income areas. Addresses in
neighborhoods with more residents of color were also offered slow
internet more frequently: 32.8% of them, compared to 18.7% of areas with
more white residents.
https://kuow.org/stories/poor-and-diverse-areas-of-seattle-and-portland-offered-slower-and-more-expensive-internet
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| Message-ID: <to79c7$2akf8$1@dont-email.me>
Date: 24 Dec 2022 11:29:00 -0500
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: This Week In Techdirt History: December 18th – 24th
Five Years Ago
This week in 2017, the chips started to fall in the wake of the net
neutrality appeal. A tonedeaf video starring Ajit Pai led to one of
those internet situations where everyone is wrong, while Pai was
insisting net neutrality supporters were wrong about everything since
Twitter hadn’t immediately died. Comcast began its push for a terrible
new net neutrality law in earnest, and Rep. Marsha Blackburn was right
on cue with a bill to make the FCC’s decision permanent. The NAACP did
an about face on net neutrality, while CenturyLink pivoted to asking the
FCC to police interconnection. And, shocking nobody, a FOIA request
revealed that yet another core justification for the repeal was bullshit.
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/23/this-week-in-techdirt-history-december-18th-24th/
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