The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week unveiled a $300 million fund to extend broadband to as many as 400,000 previously unserved homes, businesses and anchor institutions.
Created by the regulator last October, FCC Chairman Ju…
U.S.-based wireline service providers are making good on their broadband promise, investing almost $66 billion in new network infrastructure last year, reports USTelecom in a new research brief.
Source: USTelecom
Broadband providers, a…
Unless you live someplace like Chattanooga, TN, the folks in Lafayette, LA, can get faster Internet service than you can. LUS Fiber, the telecommunications division of Lafayette Utilities System, has launched a symmetrical 1-Gbps Internet service over …
I started writing full-time about wireline telecom around the same time that the federal government’s broadband stimulus plan was announced, in early 2009. One of the first pieces of data I went searching for at the USDA’s website was maps of currentl…
I started writing full-time about wireline telecom around the same time that the federal government’s broadband stimulus plan was announced, in early 2009. One of the first pieces of data I went searching for at the USDA’s website was maps of currentl…
While fiber availability into buildings is far from ubiquitous, new research from Vertical Systems Group shows that fiber is now available in 31.8 percent of U.S. commercial buildings, up from 27.7 percent in 2010.
These fiber-connected buildings with…
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) has received approval from the Missouri Public Service Commission that would allow it to offer video services over the 1 Gbps Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network it’s building in Kansas City, Mo.
Following its move to finally b…
EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK) has established a partnership with independenceIT (iIT) that to enable its business customers to bring applications and data to the cloud over both fixed (PCs) and mobile devices (smart phones and tablet computers).
Staying tru…
Fueled by an ever-growing demand for bandwidth, traffic on intra-Asian submarine cable systems will rise 39 percent annually over the next six years. These routes, reports TeleGeography in its Global Bandwidth Forecast Service, will require an addition…
Lightower has added a New Jersey-based office in response to the state’s demand for fiber and Ethernet-based services from service providers and business customers.
Following the recent opening of offices in both New York City and Boston’s finan…