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Phonoscope Communications is a broadband and communications provider with corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas. The company's infrastructure spans eight counties and reaches distant locations such as Baytown, Galveston, Freeport, Magnolia, Richmond-Rosenberg, Splendora, Texas City and Willis, Texas.
Brightspeed of Texas was founded in 1956 as Central Telephone of Texas, [1] a subsidiary of Centel. In 1992, Centel was acquired by Sprint, and Central of Texas began doing business under the Sprint name, but retained its legal name. In 2006, the company was spun off into Embarq when Sprint Nextel spun off its local telephone operations. [2]
In June 2009, the company named Mark White, former Governor of Texas, as the special counsel for development of broadband networks in rural areas. [ 17 ] In 2015, the company was acquired by JAB Broadband and folded into Rise Broadband.
This integration was made possible with advances in broadband technologies and high-speed information processing of the 1990s. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] While multiple network structures were capable of supporting broadband services, an ever-increasing percentage of broadband and MSO providers opted for fibre-optic network structures to support both present ...
The city of San Francisco, California has released a feasibility study for government and public broadband via fiber optics. This was the result of San Francisco supervisors' vote to adopt a resolution to encourage certain city departments to consider installing FTTP for use primarily in city operations.
In the 1990s, the National Information Infrastructure initiative in the U.S. made broadband Internet access a public policy issue. [23] In 2000, most Internet access to homes was provided using dial-up, while many businesses and schools were using broadband connections.
In 2011, the FCC released the "Measuring Broadband America" report where it was revealed that many broadband providers provided lower than advertised internet speeds to their consumers. Analysis of the report data showed that Cox Cable only delivered 83.4% of its advertised internet speed (on speeds above 3 Mbit/s) to its customers. [41]
Fios Internet was the first service offered under Verizon's Fios brand, and is one of three of the product line's current offerings. The broadband Internet service initially launched in Keller, Texas, in 2004, [10] a year before Fios TV was available. [11]