There’s no question that Ethernet has become the accepted service of choice for data that service providers are using for their business and wholesale customers. But an emerging group of vendors, service providers and standards groups are driving a ne…
Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR) has begun charging its customers a mandatory modem fee with no option to purchase.
As reported in Broadband DSL Reports citing one of its forum readers, the fee, which was launched earlier this year, only lets new su…
Verizon has been in the process of deploying a new update (IMG 1.9) to FiOS TV set top boxes that has proven very popular among our forum regulars. The update not only makes the FiOS TV GUI look better, but it also offers a number of functionality impr…
No need to adjust your picture, this is the same Free UTOPIA you know and love. The old theme had become dated, both in terms of having been around for a while and not conforming to the latest visual standards, and it was time for a change. Text should be more readable, especially with inline [...]
No need to adjust your picture, this is the same Free UTOPIA you know and love. The old theme had become dated, both in terms of having been around for a while and not conforming to the latest visual standards, and it was time for a change. Text should be more readable, especially with inline [...]
Users in our Canadian broadband forum note that some Toronto residents will be getting a new fiber to the home option and some very impressive prices. Beanfield Condoconnect and Waterfront Toronto are providing new Toronto waterfront neighborhoods with…
We’ve discussed at length how wireless operators here in the States have been using the term “4G” to mean whatever the hell they’d like it to mean, with the end result being significant consumer confusion over whether they’re buying a cutting edge, ful…
Users in our Verizon FiOS TV forum have been sharing their thoughts on Verizon’s latest software upgrade for FiOS TV set tops, which is slowly being deployed to test subjects and in limited markets. The latest version of the Interactive Media Guide (IM…
Users in our DSLExtreme forum asked and apparently DSLExtreme listened — the company has lowered the price of their DSL tiers to match an AT&T DSL price drop we reported on back in August. In fact, DSLExtreme took things a little lower than AT&T, and …
Verizon FiOS users aren’t the only ones suddenly getting more bandwidth than they paid for this week. Cox users in our Cox forum note that the cable operator this week delivered speed upgrades to most of Florida, with users on the company’s 25/2 Mbps “Premier” tier suddenly seeing speeds much closer to 30 Mbps down [...]