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Steve Blum
Personal blog · tellusventure.com/blogpoliticseconomics
Steve Blum's personal blog at tellusventure.com covers politics and economics. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Steve Blum's telecom blog when discussing Google's microtrenching damage to city streets and FCC rules on last-mile access. They cite it as a source and do not comment on the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
If you haven’t noticed, Google has the attention span of a crack addled flea. This is the same company that was all in on bringing high speed internet to cities and left city streets in ruin in the process. https://www.tellusventure.com/microtrenching-fail-drives-goo...
Comment linking /microtrenching-fail-drives-google-fiber-out-of-louisville/
on “Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services”Submitted California consumer groups allow CenturyLink to end dark fiber leasing as a story · 115 points
HN discussionCalifornia Assembly Bill 1665 attempted to something similar: "Both Frontier and AT&T maintain antiquated DSL systems that serve millions of Californians who live in communities that don’t have sufficient revenue potential. Low income and low density communities in other words." http://www.tellusventure.com/blog/california-bill-magically-... AB 1665 seems on hold until legislators return on August 21: http://www.tel…
Comment linking /blog/hostile-takeover-of-california-broadband-subsidies-on-ice-for-now/
on “Americans don’t need fast home Internet service, FCC suggests”Submitted Net neutrality bill thottled by AT&T’s friends in the California legislature as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> The two basically hold a duopoly on nationwide last-mile access This is obviously not true since neither Verizon nor AT&T operate hardline access nationwide. Even if you mean copper phone wires specifically, you're leaving out CenturyLink. Copper phone lines are of course the slowest last mile hardlines. Coax is far superior, and cable ISPs are growing relative to DSL--where the choices are Comcast vs Verizon DSL…
Comment linking /blog/cable-gains-subs-as-consumers-flee-dsl/
on “FCC sides with Google Fiber over Comcast with new pro-competition rule”Submitted California Governor Approves $300M Gift to Telcos, Vetoes Streetlight Giveaway as a story · 1 points
HN discussiontn13, see @justinlaing, above, in response to yompers888, as a start. The City of Santa Cruz has ~62,000 people, as of 2013. [1] A 2013 boosterism whitepaper, "Broadband Infrastructure in the Monterey Bay Region" [2] [note: published by an investor; salt ready (?)] describes some of the then-current issues experienced with larger broadband providers, which include Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, and/or Charter Communication…
Comment linking /downloads/ccbc/Broadband_Infrastructure_in_the_Monterey_Bay_Region.pdf
on “Santa Cruz's plan for a ubiquitous fiber-to-home network”Submitted Big telecom money sets up clean sweep of broadband bills in Sacramento as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted California Senate Committee Votes to Give Telcos $300m for Slower Broadband as a story · 1 points
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