High Speed Internet News

Internet companies have become quite alarmed by two recent federal proposals that will protect children according to claims from Republican supporters, but the internet companies say will make providing emails a crime. Most of the attention has been attracted by a sweeping requirement made in the bills, which were both called the Internet Safety Act and were announced at a ...

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval for its WiMaX pico Base Station, which allows operation in the United States for the semi-licensed band from 3.65-3.7GHz, has reportedly been given to wireless broadband and WiMaX communications system manufacturer, Tranzeo Wireless Technologies Inc. In order to encourage multiple entrants the band rules have been designed by the Commission to offer the flexibility new ...

Congress enacted the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 recently, although it remains vague regarding details for funding for high-tech projects. The American tech community does, however, seem to be encouraged by President Obama earlier in the week signing the $789 billion economic stimulus package containing $7.2 billion worth of provisions for broadband into law. This allocation of funding ...

The inclusion of billions of dollars for the deployment of broadband in the huge economic stimulus package has been praised by a number of groups, although others are questioning whether a significant number of residents in the US will be provided with high speed broadband access or new jobs from the broadband provisions. Following the passing of the massive economic ...

Access to high-bandwidth wireless internet may soon be as simple as Wi-Fi to connect to and as widely available as cellular phone services. Users will soon be able to use a single device to connect to any telecom carrier in the work Qualcomm prepare for the release of its second generation wireless broadband platform.

A recent document has shown that part of the proposals in the stimulus package currently making its way through Congress will be for an increase in tax credits that will allow for both unserved and rural areas to gain high-speed broadband access. According to a recently obtained document proposals for big tax credit increases that will allow for high-speed broadband ...

In order to make its high-speed broadband service as reliable as its fixed line service the Indiana University-Purdue university in Fort Wayne will be connecting with an academic broadband provider in around three months. I-Light, which has a network that has over 1000 miles of fiber-optic cabling that connects over 40 colleges and universities in Indiana, is the provider the ...

Recent announcements from a US internet service provider stating that it will be increasing the number of cities it offers metered broadband in seems to have led to ISP, Charter Communications announcing that it will be bringing in caps on bandwidth for customers of its cable broadband service. News of the expansion of its metered Internet trials to a number ...

Despite the lead mobile WiMax has had in getting to market the equipment maker Nortel Networks has, amidst difficult financial decisions, chosen to opt for the technology preferred by its carrier customers. With the tough financial shape of Nortel Networks its decision to concentrate on LTE as the next-generation broadband wireless technology forcing it to drop its work on mobile ...

The use of femtocells, which are small boxes equipped with antennas that boost cell reception using a home broadband network, are being offered increasingly by carrier to users who are getting poor signal in their home, but at a price. The Airave is the femtocell device currently offered by Sprint, which has been on sale for over a year and ...