Brough Turner in the news talking about the launch of netBlazr
Brough was interviewed at a technology conference in Falmouth, MA on Sept 10, 2010: http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2010/09/13/brough-turners-end-run-to-free-net-access/
Cogent Communications selected as partner
netBlazr signs contract with Cogent Communications to provide optical internet service throughout Boston. netBlazr is co-located in Cogent’s Data Center in Somerville, MA and will establish multiple layer 2 circuits to buildings that will function as head ends for netBlazr service. The first head end will be located in the Hancock Tower in Boston’s Back …
netBlazr is Incorporated
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts recognizes netBlazr Inc as a legal corporation.
netBlazr signs MOU with host company in the Hancock Tower
netBlazr executes an MOU with a company in the John Hancock Tower of Boston. This agreement permits netBlazr to locate networking equipment in the companies IT closet and place four radios in separate windows of the office to transmit netBlazr internet service throughout the Back Bay of Boston.
netBlazr chosen as 2010 MassChallenge finalist
Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Gregory Bialecki joined MassChallenge founders and sponsors to announce the 110 finalists in the world’s largest global startup competition. The competition was designed to accelerate the development and success of high-growth, high-impact new businesses, while stimulating job creation across the Commonwealth and beyond. These finalists now enter the …
BigBroadband.Net formed to make the “wireless end run” a reality
Brough Turner, Jason Orgill, and Jim Hanley form BigBroadband.Net to investigate the “wireless end run” for broadband service a reality.
Another Co-founder Embraces the Vision
Brough Turner and Jim Hanley meet at the MassTLC “Mobile World Congress Roundtable” session in Waltham and talk about Brough’s vision for making a “wireless end run” on incumbent broadband providers.
Vision for disruptive broadband provider shared
Brough Turner shares his vision for a radical new broadband service provider at the Wireless Session of the MIT Independent Activities Period in Cambridge, MA. He outlines how using next generation wifi technology and a freemium business model, one could do a wireless end run on the incumbent internet service provider duopoly. Future netBlazr co-founder, …
The idea behind netBlazr
Last Spring, at the Emerging Communications Conference, Brough Turner organized a panel discussion on the US National Broadband Plan. During his review of the National Broadband Plan he discovered there were no major policy changes. This discovery prompted Brough to find a commercial path to fix the Internet connectivity fiasco. This would eventually lead to …