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broadband
September 3, 2008 
How Much is Enough?: Comcast finds a new way to kill peer-to-peer.
October 5, 2007
You Can't Get There From Here: The myth of bandwidth scarcity and can Team Cringely really make it to the Moon?
August 10, 2007
The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen.
July 27, 2007
Is Google on Crack?: Eric Schmidt bets the ranch on wireless spectrum
March 16, 2006
One Size Fits All: When It Comes to Predicting the Network of the Future, This Simply Isn't True
March 2, 2006
Peering into the Future: Why P2P Is the Future of Media Distribution Even If ISPs Have Yet to Figure That Out
February 23, 2006
Rules of the Road: Internet Growth Is Slowing, So We Instinctively Seek New Ways of Growing and New Rules to Make It Happen
January 4, 2006 
WiMax Will Suffer Under the Management of Sprint-Nextel: WiMax is still 12 months away. It will take until then for Sprint-Nextel to get its act together and put further downward pressure on broadband pricing....
December 1, 2005
The Sweet Spot: By Choosing Where NOT to Compete, Google Can Win the Broadband Game
January 27, 2005
Dethroning King Gillette: Is iPod the Razor or the Blade?
January 7, 2005
Betting a Billion: Bob's Predictions for 2005
October 21, 2004
The Diddy Factor: Why We Probably Shouldn't Put Too Much Faith in Presidential Tracking Polls
February 7, 2002
Bank Shot: Not Even a Mountain Can Get in the Way of Bob's Search for Faster Internet Service
January 31, 2002
Soon, It's Gonna Rain: A New Modulation Technology Promises to Turn Your Cable TV Connection Into a 10 Gigabit-Per-Second Digital Fire Hose
January 3, 2002
The 70 Percent Solution: Bob's Predictions for 2002
October 18, 2001
Broadly Speaking: More About How Broadband Does, and Doesn't, Work in the Real World
October 11, 2001
Broadband Is Dead: Sad but True, Broadband Isn't Making the Cut, but Bob Has Reason to Believe This Isn't a Bad Thing at All
August 30, 2001
No Longer Feeling @Home: Why the Current Troubles of Excite@Home Aren't Quite as the Analysts Say, But They Were Probably Inevitable
July 12, 2001
I Network, Therefore I Am: Further Adventures in the World of Bootleg 802.11b
June 28, 2001
Reach Out and Touch Someone: How Bob and His Binoculars Found More Bandwidth and Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bond
September 14, 2000
Through an ILEC Darkly: How DSL Works and Might Even Make Us Rich