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23 Feb 2018, 3:36 pm by Katharine Trendacosta
” In this model, the government invests in fiber infrastructure, then opens it up for private companies to compete as your ISP. [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 12:10 pm by Doug Isenberg
The FCC planned to announce commitments from most of the big cable companies in the United States to supply access for $9.99 a month to a subset of low-income households. [read post]
16 Mar 2007, 10:25 am
., Time Warner Telecom Inc. and a host of small Internet service providers went to court to challenge regulatory action that they say puts wireline phone companies in control of high-speed broadband access to the Web. [read post]
16 Jun 2014, 2:20 pm by Jon Brodkin
The company's pending $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV brings more of the same, with AT&T promising "to upgrade two million additional locations to high-speed broadband with GigaPower FTTP (fiber to the premise) and expand our high-speed broadband footprint to an additional 13 million locations. [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 11:19 pm by Michael Geist
U.S. cable companies have announced that they are working with the FCC to launch a new program to bring affordable broadband services to low-income families. [read post]
22 Mar 2016, 9:30 pm by Sara Bodnar
Privacy experts have raised concerns about broadband providers sharing subscriber data with advertising companies. [read post]
3 May 2007, 7:37 pm
  This equation of "internet" with "broadband" subtly ends all discussion and focuses us only on the incentives the telecommunications companies say they need to build out these last miles. [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 8:51 am by Steven Titch
Low-income states have a much higher degree of facilities-based competition than wealthier ones, according to a new report from ID Insight, a consulting firm that provides authentication, verification and fraud prevention solutions to financial services companies, credit issuers, retailers, online merchants and broadband providers. [read post]
16 Jul 2014, 9:25 am by April Glaser
Municipal and community broadband projects offer alternatives, so when companies like Comcast and Verizon are behaving badly, users have somewhere else to go. [read post]
20 Oct 2014, 7:57 am by Douglas Jarrett
    Rural Broadband—A More Pressing Problem In the author’s view, the shortfall in rural broadband availability is largely the result of leaving broadband deployment “to the market. [read post]
16 Jan 2018, 8:42 am by Nathan Sheard
Dig Once, Choose Wisely Many communities have also recognized that much like roads that are maintained by a city government and used by any trucking company, taxi driver, or individual to carry out business or see to their daily needs, broadband access is a necessary resource for economic growth as well as financial and personal wellbeing. [read post]
13 Aug 2007, 11:35 am
After all, why should companies like Comcast offer the kind of high speed broadband enjoyed in Europe and Asia when it would simply enable companies like Joost to compete with the company's own digital video offerings? [read post]
12 Jul 2017, 10:58 am by ernesto
That is a far cry from where we were in 2016 before Congress repealed our broadband privacy rights, and it is because of companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon that we have arrived at this point. [read post]
8 Sep 2014, 11:53 am by Jon Brodkin
Individual cable companies did not submit comments to the FCC, but their representative, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), agrees with AT&T and Verizon. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 11:57 am by Ernesto Falcon
But there have been recent victories to reverse this trend, including: restoring the California Public Utilities Commission’s regulatory authority over broadband companies, the state’s passage of the strongest net neutrality law in the land (that is still facing litigation from the ISPs), and California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Call for a Broadband For All Plan. [read post]
29 Jul 2021, 12:53 pm by Ernesto Falcon
Negotiations on the final bill are ongoing, but late yesterday NBC News had the draft broadband provisions. [read post]
2 Sep 2008, 9:00 pm
M2Z is a small wireless start-up with a big goal: free broadband for the masses. [read post]
16 Mar 2020, 12:14 pm by Ernesto Falcon
Some of the world’s fastest and cheapest broadband connections. [read post]