Confused by all the price-slashing going on amongst the Island’s service providers? Excellent overview here from RediscoverTech. So glad I’m a TBI customer 🙂
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Bermuda’s websites and social media sites got some heavy traffic during Hurricane Igor. As a result of their excellent coverage Bernews’ Facebook page added an estimated 1,000 new fans over the weekend and has now overtaken The Royal Gazette and Bermuda Tourism for the first time.
Bernews now boasts 5,601 fans (as of 9.30pm tonight), just ahead of the Gazette’s 5,594 making it (I believe), the third most popular Bermuda-related Facebook page and the top news Facebook page. Singer Collie Buddz is way out in front with 89,552 and fellow artiste Heather Nova second with 8,459 (Nova also has more than 2,000 fans on her official page and another 4,000 on another fan page, Heather Nova (artist)] Tourism is 4th on 5,352 while the only other media site in contention is the Bermuda Sun on 2,185.
Dream on, Bermuda. We're stuck in that left-hand pre-1999 timewarp.
Swiped this from the rdiscover tech site. Food for thought – and about time for consumers demand better, cheaper services from Bermuda’s so-called “world class telecommunications” providers.
Yesterday Chattanooga rolled out 1 Gigabit internet service to all its residents and business. The first City in the US.
New Pricing, effective Sept 13th in Chattanooga
– 30 Mbps up and down for $58
– 50 Mbps per second for $70
– 100 Mbps per month for $140
– 1 gigabit for $350 per month (launched September 13th)Bermuda, population 68k people / Est. GDP: 5.86 Billion 2007.
Pricing effective September 8th
– 1 Mbps – $89
– 4 Mbps – $135
– 6 Mbps – $175
– 8 Mbps – $210 (launched September 8th)It is not Bermuda’s distance, it not Bermuda’s size … must be something else 🙂
Things will improve if TeleBermuda and Cablevision are allowed to enter the home market and provide higher residential speeds – although they are only promising a miserable 12mbps – while North Rock trumpets its new 8mbps service as though it’s cutting edge.
With services like Hulu, BBC iPlayer and devices like Apple’s new streaming TV, the digital convergence of TV and the internet is here and now. If we want to really take advantage of it, consumers need to demand it. Let’s hear ya, Bermuda!
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