broadband speeds

National Shame: Swaths of Non-Rural U.S. Without Broadband

Stevie Converse — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:54:10 -0800

A Stimulating Discussion

Stevie Converse — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:28:15 -0800

100Mbps FiOS Will Arrive Next Year

Stevie Converse — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:19:42 -0800

Down Under, Wireless Broadband Speeds to 21 Mbps

Stevie Converse — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:10:47 -0800

Brits Get Broadband Bill of Rights

Stevie Converse — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:08:51 -0800

Will DSL Survive?

Stevie Converse — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:32:00 -0800

Calls for 100 Mbps Broadband Likely to Go Unheard this Year

Stevie Converse — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:10:28 -0700

A Call for a Broadband Policy

Stevie Converse — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:36:48 -0700

No Significant Improvements for Broadband Speeds for U.S. in the Past Year

Stevie Converse — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:25:08 -0700

CWA Publishes State-by-State Download Speeds. How About Carrier-by-Carrier Speeds?

Stevie Converse — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:56:08 -0700

The Next Telecom War

Stevie Converse — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:31:46 -0700

Faster Broadband Demands More Bandwidth

Stevie Converse — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:13:16 -0700

When it comes to broadband, a high fibre diet seems to increase customers' appetite for bandwidth, a new report has found.

The study, by market development organisation the FTTH Council Europe, compared usage by consumers with FTTH (fibre to the home) with ADSL users across four European countries and found fibre homes currently drive three times more traffic than ADSL households.

The United States Needs More Internet

Stevie Converse — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:48:18 -0700

Scott Jagow: How much Internet access does one country need? Apparently, this country needs a lot more. Consumer groups say the U.S. lags behind other nations in broadband service. The FCC will look into this a bit more today at a hearing. Janet Babin has more from our Innovations Desk at North Carolina Public Radio.

Consumers Lust After High-Speed Broadband, Not HDTV

Stevie Converse — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:02:49 -0700

Broadband services and speeds are ranked higher than any other "new" service when it comes to their importance to consumers. New survey results from Pike & Fischer Broadband Advisory Services show that while HDTV and digital phone service were important to some consumers, high-speed data came out ahead of the rest. The report, titled "Communications Industry Survey: Views on the U.S.

Minnesota: An Internet Backwater Soon?

Stevie Converse — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:00:05 -0700

Minnesotans expect the following to be nearly infinite: the universe around us, the amount of spam crowding our e-mail inboxes, Starbucks locations -- and the growth of the Internet. But the release of a November study by the Nemertes Research Group predicting "the end of the Internet" has generated countless articles and blog chatter.

The 'Is' of Broadband and Open Access

Stevie Converse — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:29:38 -0700

The chairman of FCC, Kevin Martin, is under the fire right away, speaking at the D conference..he is asked about how U.S. is falling behind in broadband: “You have to look at this in context: demographics, geography, complexity. There are two issues: one if penetration, the other is the speed of broadband.

Uncle Walt Bends FCC Chairman over His Knee

Stevie Converse — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:21:00 -0700

Walt Mossberg, the world’s most powerful technology product reviewer, opened the final session of the D: All Things Digital conference with an angry tirade against the s-s-s-low state of broadband in the United States.

“WE ARE VERY SLOW,” Mossberg complained of U.S. Internet access speeds.

State Broadband Speeds Compared

Stevie Converse — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:03:09 -0700

Akamai today released their first ever "State of the Internet Report," which covers a number of topics including broadband penetration, broadband speeds, security, and more. Of particular note to me was their measurement of speed, with the report examining not only the fastest countries, but the fastest States.