Maui Recovers, with Help from Verizon and AT&T At excruciatingly slow pace, Maui begins to rebuild from the ashes. Following the wildfire that ravaged the western half of the island and killed well over a hundred people, phone and internet…Continue Reading →
Ma Bell’s Flying Cows If you’ve seen The Wizard of Oz, you may remember the flying cow carried by a tornado past Dorothy Gale’s window. An executive at AT&T evidently thought, “We need something like that!” With that in mind,…Continue Reading →
Vegas: DISH Goes Live with 5G Internet What happens in Vegas, won’t stay only in Vegas. Dish Network has entered a 5G Wireless market that, until now, has been almost the exclusive property of T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T. On Thursday,…Continue Reading →
Vidgo Video Viewing (Voraciously) When Shane Cannon launched Vidgo TV in December 2019, he knew he was picking a fight with giants. Disney, Dish Network, AT&T, and Google had already entered the streaming video market. And they had carved it…Continue Reading →
Multi-Gigabit Broadband: AT&T Shatters All Existing Speed Records We’re hearing a lot about wireless internet lately. The press can hardly contain its excitement over the newer wireless systems. Meanwhile, cable and fiber internet providers, with far less fanfare, have been…Continue Reading →
50% HBO Max Discounts for Some AT&T Customers In every cloud, it’s been said, there’s a silver lining. We don’t know if this is true in every case, but it is true for AT&T customers who had HBO Max with…Continue Reading →
Save Money on Streaming Video for Prime Day If you’ve hesitated about subscribing to a video service, this may be the time to stop waiting. For Prime Day, several internet service providers offer free or discounted streaming video to new…Continue Reading →
Foul Weather Discounts from AT&T and Verizon You adapt to foul weather the best way you can. I adapt as well as I can. We all do as much as we’re able. Survival can be more difficult, though, if severe…Continue Reading →
Movie Theaters May Stream Movies to Homes For decades, cable, telecom, and satellite video systems have fought fiercely with theater chains and with TV and movie studios– sometimes over market share, more often over licensing. They have to deal with…Continue Reading →
Web Services Lift Data Caps during Virus Outbreak “Bring out yer dead! Bring out yer dead!”, the town coroner yells as he and his assistants drag the corpse wagon through the streets. Citizens bring out the latest plague (virus) victims,…Continue Reading →