Carrier WiFi equipment hits its stride: BelAir Networks, Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) and Ruckus Wireless accounted for more than two-thirds of carrier WiFi equipment revenue in 2011, Infonetics Research said, in a year that saw global revenue grow 35 percent….
To hear the project’s opponents tell it, the nation’s largest municipal broadband effort, Utah’s Utopia, was supposed to be dead by now, crushed under the weight of the inevitable failure that all government-run broadband projects are supposed to succu…
Over the last ten years, dozens of States have passed bills literally written by incumbent ISPs, banning or restricting the rights of local communities to wire themselves with broadband — even if the local ISP won’t. More recently such efforts have be…
Georgia is the latest state to try and impose restrictions on communities eager to deploy their own broadband after regional duopolists Time Warner Cable and CenturyLink convinced state legislators to erect roadblocks designed to keep the state’s broad…
Todd Spangler over at cable-industry trade magazine Multichannel News crows that cable operators came out on top in 2011 in terms of speed. According to data compiled over at the Ookla Net Index, the six fastest residential ISPs in the U.S. based on av…
Whether it’s a telco or a cable operator, broadband service providers, in their effort to attract subscribers, have always led in their ads with how fast their download speeds are, but government regulators believe they need to be honest with what spee…
Brazil this week proposed the cooperative build of a fiber optic network that would span the entire continent of South America, with the goal of bringing down costs of current broadband services. The build would involve several fiber optic links, remed…
You might recall that back in 2009, we mentioned a piece claiming that the “bandwidth hog,” a term used ceaselessly by industry executives to justify rate hikes, net neutrality infractions, and pretty much everything else — was a myth. The piece was p…
You might recall that back in 2009, we mentioned a piece claiming that the “bandwidth hog,” a term used ceaselessly by industry executives to justify rate hikes, net neutrality infractions, and pretty much everything else — was a myth. The piece was p…
Of the 75 million broadband subscribers in the US around 42 million, or 56%, have some form of data cap in place from their internet service provider (ISP) according to data from Leichtman Research Group. However, despite all the negative publicity dat…