I’ve mentioned this before – Verizon is aggressively rolling out Fiber To The Premises (fttp) – this is true asynchronous broadband to our homes folks, imagine connectivity several orders of magnitude faster than that so-called ‘speedy’ cable modem on your desk now, but for the same price. Anyway I’m mentioning it today because verizon has announced that they’re expanding their rollout to six more states, including mine (NY). My bet is I am still at least a couple of years away from seeing this available to me, but it’s progress. I’m excited about this in the same way I anxiously anticipated cable modems 8-10 years ago- it’s going to enable another round of innovation just as the cable modems did.

(and it has the fringe benefit of kicking time warner in the ass – longtime readers know how angry I’ve been about the limited upstream capacity of their network. If the cable company can’t figure out this isn’t a broadcast medium, fine. We’ll let the telcos make the point. It can’t happen soon enough for me).