More than 70 percent of U.S. broadband customers are happy with their overall service, according to Leichtman Research Group. And just 26 percent are “very interested” in receiving faster speeds at… Read more »
The U.S. is still the largest broadband market when it comes to the 30 OECD countries, according to data released late last week by the organization. The U.S. has 81.1 million… Read more »
The government of Australia has committed $38.9 billion to build an open, fiber-to-the-home network that will serve 93 percent of its citizens, with those in rural areas guaranteed service of up… Read more »
Google’s planned experimental fiber network will be so open that a project manager says it hopes to see other ISPs riding its connection to deliver their own services. Now’s the chance… Read more »
Tomorrow is the last day municipalities can submit applications for Google’s experimental fiber network that will deliver 1 gigabit per second to homes. But even for cities that aren’t chosen, the… Read more »
The FCC chairman today outlined a vision for 100 Mbps connections to 100 million homes. But that goal will be easy compared with other aspects of the National Broadband Plan he… Read more »
The FCC released data today detailing the spread of high speed Internet across the nation through the end of 2008, including a map. So why are we spending $350 million to… Read more »
To figure out why Google has declared war on the existing communications network with its experimental fiber network, I chatted with Minnie Ingersoll, a product manager for alternative access at Google… Read more »
Google will build a fiber network that offers speeds of 1 Gbps. The network could become an indirect threat to ISPs, because Google could disclose competitive data on actual network costs… Read more »
Eight-two percent of home buyers who have had broadband service over fiber all the way to the house rank it as the leading real estate amenity, the Fiber-to-the-Home Council said today… Read more »