Welcome to Columbia, Fiber!
Thousands of hair-thin strands of glass reflect light like a mirror, carrying data to your home, your office or your classroom at speeds you’ve never experienced before. What used to take five minutes to load now takes 10 seconds. The multicolored, never-ending spinning wheel becomes a thing of the past, and suddenly you don’t […]
Forget the competition
Whether the City of Columbia decides to — or is allowed to — lease some of its optical fiber lines to third parties reminds me of incidents during the 20-year struggle to bring cable television to Columbia that followed a languorous pace until July 22, 1977, the day the system finally went into operation. Cable […]