Internet providers operate a service that is very much like a utility, but now a Republican Congressman wants to pass a law ordering the FCC to say they are not utilities. Read more »
Nobody likes the taxman. The latest chapter in the fundamental disagreement between Netflix and Comcast over who should pay for the improvement of the internet unfolded Thursday. Read more »
The New York Times may not get network neutrality, but it certainly sees the dangers of consolidating the nation’s largest and third largest broadband providers. The venerable paper came out against… Read more »
The danger in laying down hard and fast net neutrality rules now is that they could lock in structural dynamics in the market for online content when we don’t really know… Read more »
Austin, the home of three future gigabit networks from Google (residents can’t sign up for it yet); AT&T (currently limited in the deployment area and limited to 300 Mbps speeds) and… Read more »
It’s getting hard out there for broadband consumers. If Comcast buys Time Warner Cable, four out of five U.S. broadband subscribers will have a data cap. Read more »
The importance “Sunday Ticket” to the AT&T/DirecTV deal underscores the degree to which the extent to which live streaming is starting to drive deals and investment in the over-the-top video space… Read more »
In this part of our special report on reinventing the internet, a look at how the wireless networks of the future should evolve to handle a world in which mobile computers… Read more »
The cable industry is getting more excited about the smart home, but they still have to justify managed services to the mainstream. The classic do-it-yourself market is getting crowded. Read more »