Cities around the U.S. will have gigabit-speed Internet access by 2015 if the FCC's wishes come true. All 50 states should have at least one community where consumers can get 1Gbps or faster Internet access by 2015, U.S. Federal ...
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HomePlug networks that use the electrical wires in your home to transfer data are distributed by some of the world's biggest broadband providers and available at major retail stores,but even HomePlug's cheerleader in chief calls it ...
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Cambodian authorities will deport the co-founder of The Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg. File-sharing website The Pirate Bay claims 30 million users, despite efforts by authorities in Sweden to shut it down. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg ...
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U.S.Sen.Ron Wyden(D-Ore.)has introduced legislation that limits the ability of broadband providers to impose data caps on customers. The Data Measurement Integrity Act,which Wyden introduced Thursday,would require ISPs to first accurately ...
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U.S. broadband providers are delivering close to their advertised speeds, according to a U.S. Federal Communications Commission report, but not everyone trusts the numbers. The FCC's new broadband performance study, released Thursday, ...
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The Democratic Party embraced its version of Internet freedom and called for new cybersecurity legislation in its platform released as the party begins its convention in Charlotte. The Democratic platform, released late Monday, calls for ...
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The UK is to have the fastest broadband network of all major European countries by 2015,culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has claimed. Speaking at the Google Campus in Tech City,Hunt defended the government after criticism from a Lords ...
The U.S.Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on a proposal that would allow AT&T to offer mobile broadband service on 20MHz of spectrum it purchased in August along with spectrum holding company NextWave Wireless. During ...
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Broadband providers have "editorial discretion" to give priority to their own Web content, and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules limiting that discretion is a violation of providers' free speech rights, two ...
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For Europe to take full advantage of the spectrum on its shores,broadcasters must share their allocations with mobile broadband providers. This was the conclusion of Neelie Kroes,a vice-president of the European Commission and the lead ...
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