In February, Bruce Harrell sent the North Beacon Hill Council a letter expressing support for a broadband pilot project on Beacon Hill.  This is a project on Beacon Hill that CenturyLink would like to work on that would provide two fiber-to-the-node sites that would potentially provide homes near the sites with 80-100 megabits/second broadband speed. …

In December of 2012 Mayor Mike McGinn announced that the City of Seattle has reached an agreement with broadband developer Gigabit Squared to develop and operate an ultra high-speed fiber-to-the-home/fiber-to-the-business broadband network. The plan will begin with a demonstration fiber project in twelve Seattle neighborhoods and includes wireless methods to deploy services more quickly to …

On 9/11/2012, I gave an update to the North Beacon Hill Council on the state of broadband in our fair part of the city.  Since the Beacon Hill branch of the Seattle Public Library didn’t have a projector, I had to improvise.  Here’s a PDF of the presentation:  Beacon Hill Broadband Status 20120911 Thanks for …

CenturyLink is having a public meeting at El Centro de la Raza on Beacon Hill on Thursday, September 20th.  Do you want to find out about potential broadband upgrades in this year?  How about possibly hearing about projects after that?  You should check out this meeting and talk to CenturyLink.  Here’s the notice: Hello Beacon …

CenturyLink is trying to get new broadband equipment placed in Beacon Hill and the Central District so they can start rolling out better broadband services.  They need some public support.  The following maps show where proposed equipment sites are. If you or someone you know lives close near one of these locations, and is possibly …

From Vinh Tang (Seattle) I wanted to let you know right away that WAVE Broadband’s majority owner and ultimate parent company, Sandler Capital Management, had sold its controlling interest in Wave I (the corporate entity and subsidiary that holds the Seattle Franchise) to Oak Hill Capital Partners. Since the transfer is a change of control …

As part of trying to figure out why broadband infrastructure upgrades in Seattle are so far behind, we’ve been talking to some of the broadband providers in the area.  CenturyLink was kind enough to provide us a glimpse of what the permitting process is like for new equipment is like in Seattle vs. Renton.  There’s …