MEEKER | If one more online contact or provider tells me to use a new platform/software, upload a new app, or watch a video tutorial, I think I will scream. Last week was a total technology frustration, including my cell phone that would not ring when called. Now that we’re all[Read More…]
Tag: Technology
Editor’s Column: Technology: tyrant or tool?
As a member of Generation X, in our lifetime we’ve witnessed a rapid acceleration in technology that has taken us from computers that were programmed by cassette tapes and used televisions for monitors and cell phones the size of bricks, to computers in our pockets that double as phones. Remember[Read More…]
Broadband can speed up life, but what does that mean to county?
RBC I What is broadband and why do I need it? Broadband is the next generation of telecommunications technology that is replacing the traditional copper phone wiring that served the nation with phone and data services for more than a century. Unlike copper wire, which requires literally thousands of small[Read More…]
Broadband: Where does NW Colo. go from here?
MEEKER I In previous articles, the characteristics and technology of fiber optic cable have been discussed. Similarly, the possible applications of broadband were also presented, but represent only a few of the vast number of possibilities.
Broadband: The next generation
RBC I Broadband is a buzz word meaning “broad bandwidth” used to describe the next generation of telecommunications wired and wireless network or “backbone” technologies.
