Range Television Cable Company, doing business as Range BroadBand, announced in January its intent to sell its Hibbing-owned assets to Mediacom Minnesota LLC. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and is scheduled to close in May. You can learn more on the Hibbing Daily Tribune.
Speed Matters is a web site published by the Communications Workers of America. It promotes the ideal that “all Americans need access to reliable and affordable high speed Internet connections based on their 5 principles:
The web site also features a tool that will “test your speed” both upstream and downstream and will compare your results to others in your state, the US and beyond. It’s very interesting. If you are disappointed with your results, they make it very easy to contact your legislators and let them know.
Check it out and let us know what you find.
Erickson introduced: H. F. 0564, A bill for an act relating to communications; providing for customer choice for cable and satellite television customers; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 325E. (The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Labor. )
It’s interesting to watch the politics and finances behind broadband technologies today as demonstrated recently in California where “AT&T and Verizon, the two most dominant players in California’s telephone market, spent nearly $26 million to lobby lawmakers last year in a successful effort to access the state’s lucrative cable TV market.” Read more in the article (AT&T, Verizon spend millions to access California cable TV market) reported by the Associated Press.