San Antonio-based SBC said it soon would begin market trials of so-called neighborhood broadband gateways in Texas in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio; in Kansas City, Mo.; Danbury, Conn.; and the California cities of San Jose, Sacramento, Riverside and Santa Rosa.
Bryant said that while Intel works with a number of carrier partners to provide tech for their broadband gateways, this work with Comcast is the largest and most extensive example of that.
In this way, all communication traffic to/from different access points is multiplexed/demultiplexed through the broadband mobile gateway.
Meanwhile his compatriot Mike Adenuga who founded Globacom, the mobile, fixed, broadband, and international gateway carrier, joins Forbes' billionaires list with a net worth of $2 billion.
Much like electricity in the early 20th century, broadband is the gateway to full participation in the economy, a true marker of haves and have nots.
Plug in the power supply then connect the device into your broadband router or gateway with an Ethernet cable and your phone into port 1.
Using Covad's qualification technology, the Web site will then determine service availability, allowing consumers to order the gateway and broadband service immediately.
Increasingly, phones — not home-based broadband connections — are the gateway to the Internet for all Americans.
Mr. Glaser's company has previously announced similarly "co-branded" versions of its service with Best Buy, Gateway and other broadband companies, including Cablevision Systems' Optimum Online, Time Warner Cable's Road Runner, and Verizon Online.
