A research study conducted by the Insight Research Corporation suggests that between retail and corporate consumers, more than 37 billion dollars over the next 5 years will be spent with Carrier Ethernet providers. And, since almost major data carriers are Read more
AT&T [NYSE:T] acquires the wireless spectrum underlying FLO TV from Qualcomm [NASDAQ: QCOM] for $1.92 billion. The spectrum is in the Lower 700 MHz frequency band and spans more than 300 million consumers across the U.S. AT&T has plans to Read more
On Dec 15, 2010 Google announced they will be delaying their decision on which city or cities will get to sample its 1Gbps broadband network until early in 2011. They said the reason for this was that they simply had Read more
Google plans to deploy 1 Gbps fiber to a single community to test next-generation ad delivery and further illustrate the benefit of an open-access model. Google claims to have received over 1,100 community applications along with almost 200,000 responses […]
Akamai (a leading content delivery network provider) announced average US broadband speed declined by 2.4% in the 3rd quarter of 2009 compared to the same quarter year prior. Delaware currently leads all US states with an average of 7.2 Mbps, Read more
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has made it clear in the past that he see’s a need for universal broadband. In his remarks at the NARUC conference (PDF) yesterday, Genachowski offered even more specific thoughts on the subject, the mention of Read more
AboveNet, Inc. (NYSE:ABVT), a leading provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, announced that it has linked its network with the New York metropolitan area colocation facilities of Telx, a leading interconnection and colocation provider in key North American markets. February Read more
In July of 2009, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University would be conducting an independent review of existing studies pertaining to broadband deployment and usage around the world. The FCC’s Read more