High Speed Networks

Sprint Nextel offers big bonus to WiMax head (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

17 May 2008

Sprint Nextel Corp. wants its high-speed wireless Internet effort to do well and is willing to pay the man leading the operation a lot for it.

Cable companies to ramp up Web, HD, mobile service (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

17 May 2008

Cable operators are riding high heading into this year's industry trade show, which kicks off this weekend. After a dismal 2007 in which their shares took a big pounding, cable is seeing a rebound as Wall Street put more weight on their gains in high-speed Internet and digital voice rather than focusing mainly on their traditional video services.

City-wide Wi-Fi dies in Philly (Dallas Morning News)

17 May 2008

PHILADELPHIA — EarthLink Inc. is pulling the plug on its troubled wireless high-speed Internet network in Philadelphia, once touted as a national model.