The first round of public comments about the proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable will close on Monday. Comcast had little to say about internet antitrust issues, but instead… Read more »
AT&T has begun upgrading Austin residents to gigabit service — making it the second provider after Grande Communications to bring FTTH to Austin residents. Read more »
Want the best broadband? Fiber to the home is increasingly the gold standard of high quality connectivity. Too bad more people can’t get it. Read more »
The FCC has been gently pushing for the end of state laws that make it difficult to build out municipal broadband networks. It should push harder. Read more »
It’s been almost 10 months since consumers began complaining about poor Netflix streaming because of congestion where the last-mile ISP network met Netflix’s network. Why is this still an issue? Read more »
Every quarter Akamai tracks the trends in broadband — from speeds to IPv6 readiness and security threats. This year the percentage of people who have speeds greater than 10 Mbps hit… Read more »
Boulder, Colo. is in many ways an ideal location for Google to build it’s fiber-to-the-home network. But it didn’t because of a state law that required voter approval for any muni-led… Read more »
ISPs and naysayers will argue the consumers and businesses don’t yet need gigabit broadband because there’s nothing people can do with it yet. But that’s not the point. The speed is… Read more »
Actions may speak louder than words, but sometimes it doesn’t hurt to talk about your actions either: Google just explained how Google Fiber does peering — a clear stab at the… Read more »
More people are on the internet and overall global broadband connection speeds are faster. That’s the good news from Akamai’s quarterly State of the Internet report. Read more »