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Google Fiber for Communities Project Nomination of EFF-Austin We at EFF-Austin have submitted our Google Fiber for Communities nomination. Our letter will be included in the City of Austin's official nomination package. We think Austin, as a community and a broadband market, is the perfect place for a
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The University of Texas' student newspaper, The Daily Texan, covered last night's panel on the 20th anniversary of the Secret Service raid at Steve Jackson Games. “I got a phone call one morning saying, ‘Steve, the office is full of Secret Service agents, and they’re not
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Google just announced that they plan on rolling out a 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) Internet access service in a number of trial locations. To give some perspective, a 1Gbps Internet access service would be over 65 times faster than Time Warner Cable's fastest Road Runner tier available in Austin
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EFF-Austin is coordinating One Web Day Austin, September 22 at Austin Centre, 5pm-9pm. Download the event flyer (pdf). | Learn more about One Web Day.
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As Time Warner’s metered broadband plans are currently shelved, awaiting a more palatable consumer climate, we have time to examine why broadband providers suddenly feel compelled to eliminate the flat-rate, all-you-can-eat pricing model. Metered Internet service is hardly a new idea; early services like AOL and Compuserve were metered,