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Even though there have been reports that no ISP in the US is using such technologies, other than for legitimate security purposes, lawmakers in the US are planning to introduce new legislation regarding privacy in order to limit how users can be tracked by Internet Service Providers. Lawmakers were urged to pass comprehensive legislation for online privacy in the months ...

It has been announced recently that in April and May a series of webinars, which are co-hosted by NEBSA, WiMAX forum and the WCAI, will inform the market on the benefits that can be obtained by wireless broadband and the role it will play in the government rural broadband stimulus plans and will be run by Airspan Networks, a ...

A trial that was testing a new “consumption-based billing” system for its broadband service have been halted by Times Warner Cable, according to a recent announcement by the company. There has been “a great deal of misunderstanding” by lawmakers and consumers who have criticized the plan said Glenn Britt in a recent statement.

The highly anticipated hearings regarding the $7.2 billion stimulus package for broadband services in underserved and rural areas have been started by the Federal Communications Commission. The debate on how the chunk of taxpayer’s money should be invested has unsurprisingly been open to much debate and in many cases arguments.

A new report released by ComScore recently has shown that the amount of customers signing up for PC data cards to access the net has almost stopped and the time spent online by users has moved from fixed line to mobile broadband connections, although the time spent has not increased at all. Access to the internet using PC data cards ...

The new Netbooks offered by AT&T were thought by many to be a great deal, although now it would seem that the new terms of service that have been introduce make them a little less appealing. Telecoms giant AT&T recently revised its terms of service, shortly before its announcement to offer its 3G broadband service customers in Philadelphia and Atlanta ...

Remote, under-served and rural are being looked at for the extending of high-capacity broadband pipes by the government. An official for the government recently told a congressional panel that when evaluating the broadband grant program applications the Commerce Department will consider next generation broadband internet speeds.

According to the new State of the Internet report from Akamai, the content delivery network provider, the United State is currently lagging behind in terms of connections to broadband yet it is leading in the number of attacks that originate from servers based in the country. There was more malicious Internet traffic originating in the US than in any other ...