Alex Goldman

Jack Unger, founder and president of Wireless InfoNet, is the author of a book called Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks that will be published by Cisco Press in March, 2003. At 400 pages, the book will have an introduction, nine chapters, three appendixes, and an index. Chapters 1, 2 and 3 will review the basics. […]

The Power Line Communications Association (PLCA) was formed in mid-2001 to help utilities and ISPs explore the potential of delivering Internet service over the electric lines that are already in homes throughout the U.S. Currently, the association’s membership consists of 12 utility companies plus some vendors, such as main.Net Communications. Craig Shaar, PLCA director of […]

EarthLink is planning a slew of product releases for 2003 that the company feels will give it a competitive advantage over its main rivals

Drop a few billion dollars into a Federal program and you’ll attract some attention. The Rural Broadband Coalition (RBC) was recently founded by a group of consultants to help ISPs and others take advantage of the money that’s pouring in to the broadband program of the Rural Utility Service (RUS), a service of the US […]

Grown weary of the interference headaches created by sharing unlicensed 2.4 or 5.8 GHz spectrum with other wireless Internet service providers? We found one WISP that’s cured its UNII-band headaches by stepping up to operating in licensed 28 GHz spectrum. When Quad-Cities Online of Moline, Ill. ran into interference on 5.8 GHz UNII wireless point-to-point […]

Washington, D.C.-based Cogent Communications today announced a massive new customer, Gigex Inc. of San Francisco, Calif. Gigex provides trailers for movies and computer games to end users. With over 1 million downloads each month, many of them running to several or even a hundred megabits, Gigex is a major consumer of bandwidth. Cogent is known […]

US LEC announced yesterday that it is acquiring more than 150 data customers from Interpath Communications, a Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based ASP. Interpath is in the process of merging with Annapolis, Md.-based USi and reports that it is selling its data customers because they are ancillary to the applications hosting business that will be the […]

The past few weeks have seen an onslaught of anti-spam solutions, but a new startup, Vanquish, aims to tackle the problem a tad differently: by allowing recipients to charge spammers for each mail they receive. The Marlborough, Mass.-based firm is expected to formally announce its product Monday, when it also unveils its first beta-testing Internet […]

Bethlehem, Pa.-based ISP FASTNET Friday acquired privately held Conshaucken, Pa.-based Netaxs/Earthstation. Netaxs’ ISP clients include New York City-based Panix. Terms of the deal were not announced. The companies expect to find cost savings as well as additional revenue opportunities in the merger. Netaxs combines a local ISP business — even dialup, in which it has […]

Our case originated in Carlsbad, Calif. It started with a questionable business plan and a few bad checks. But by the time Detective Robert Shelton launched an official investigation into DSL Monster, he discovered thousands of dollars were missing and exposed a business that survived for several months delivering only empty promises of broadband Internet […]

ISPs have a new choice in the own-branded services space. CMGI‘s high-tech power-behind-1stup, NaviPath, today announced its Navi499 offering, a service that will enable ISPs to offer Internet service at $4.99 per month. ISP-Planet profiled NaviPath’s technology when the company was called NaviNet, in the article, "Dial Access with Depth." The company offers a high-availability, […]