broadband speeds

Global Broadband Snapshot: Hong Kong Throttles the Rest of the World

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:15:44 -0500

Full article: Network World
Brad Reed
Anyone who thinks their Verizon fiber connection is fast ought to spend a week hanging out in East Asia. According to a survey of advertised global broadband speeds, East Asian countries boast some of the fastest advertised connections around, with four countries featuring at least one carrier claiming average download speeds of 100Mbps or higher.

UK's Average Broadband Speed Is 7.6Mbps

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:34:29 -0500

Full article: PC Advisor
Carrie-Ann Skinner
According to the regulator's sixth UK Broadband Speeds report, which features the results of numerous speed tests conducted in partnership with SamKnows, the UK's average net connection speed is 22 percent faster than in May last year when it was 6.8Mbps compared to November.

Cablevision, Verizon Still Bickering over Broadband Claim

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:53:54 -0500

Full article: Multichannel News
Todd Spangler
Verizon Communications and Cablevision Systems are continuing their war of words over broadband speed claims, with the telco complaining that the MSO's latest ad citing FCC data is misleading.

One in Five U.K. Consumers Are Happy with Their Mobile Broadband Speeds

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:16:54 -0500

Full article: Mobile Magazine
Joe Fernandez
Just 20 percent of mobile broadband users are happy with their speeds, according to a survey by Broadband Genie.

Internet Architects Warn of Risks in Ultrafast Networks

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:03:48 -0500

Full article: New York Times
Quentin Hardy
If nothing else, Arista Networks proves that two people can make more than $1 billion each building the Internet and still be worried about its reliability. The Arista founders say, the promise of having access to mammoth amounts of data instantly, anywhere, is matched by the threat of catastrophe.

eBay Lobbies U.K. Government for Faster Mobile Broadband

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:42:29 -0500

Full article: FierceWireless
Paul Rasmussen
Online auction site eBay entered the growing debate over faster mobile broadband speeds, and has sent its "Mobile Manifesto" to the UK government calling for the deployment of LTE to happen without further delay.

Schools and Libraries Still Living in Dial-Up Age

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:31:23 -0400

Full article: KQED-FM
Audrey Watters
Remember the agony of waiting for a website to load, before broadband was widely available? According to a recent survey, a lot of American schools and libraries are still living in that era.

Worldwide, Broadband Demand and Speeds Are Zooming

Stevie Converse — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:42:00 -0400

Full article: GigaOM
Om Malik
A new report from Akamai shows that the number of broadband subscribers and average speeds are rising worldwide. Europe dominates the list of top ten countries with the highest broadband connectivity while Asian cities dominate the list of the 100 fastest cities in the world. Eighteen U.S. cities are on the top 100 list.

Google Eyeing Fiber Network for Europe

Stevie Converse — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:36:21 -0400

Full article: GigaOM
Stacey Higginbotham
A Google executive said the search giant is pondering a fiber network in Europe, perhaps based on its experience building out a gigabit fiber to the home network in the United States. Google's fiber efforts in the U.S. are both an attempt to understand the applications of tomorrow, but also to provide a new business and cost model for fiber deployments that could perhaps force ISPs into offering faster or cheaper services.

The New Capitals of High Speed Internet

Stevie Converse — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:33:27 -0400

Full article: The Atlantic Cities
Nate Berg
The twin cities of Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri will soon launch a high speed fiber network, sponsored by Google, that is one hundred times speedier than what’s currently available. The cities see the network, which will be rolled out in early 2012, as an opportunity to boost their economies and draw in new business.