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Both the Buffalo and Western New York network is to get a wireless broadband capacity increase according to a recent announcement made by network operator Verizon Wireless. With an increasing number of Verizon Wireless customers now adopting Mobile Broadband, which is the super fast mobile broadband network that is designed for its business and professional mobile users, VCAST and VCAST ...

The recent announcement of a deal valued at $100 million between Alvarion, the Israel based vendor of WiMAX services and OpenRange communication, the US rural broadband service provider will be the largest deal the WiMAX vendor has ever made. The recent stimulus package has seen a large number of rural providers looking to improve the quality of services and coverage ...

New research into the number of homes in the US that currently have broadband connections has return results that have surprised the researchers. It was found by research company, Pew Internet Projects that 63 percent of all adult Americans currently have access to the internet in their home using broadband services, which is an increase of 15 percent compared to ...

A new broadband service upgrade has been rolled out recently by Cox Communications Inc that will provide an increase of up to 25 percent in download speeds for residential broadband access. In order to gain access to this new 25Mbps broadband service and the upgraded download protocols used users will need to obtain a new modem and the service will ...

The number of households accessing the internet in 2007 was reported as 62 percent, which is a huge increase from the 18 percent of internet users in 1997, according to “new” data released by the US census bureau. This information is, however, seen by many industry experts as being outdated historical information that is of little use to anyone who ...

In a new report released by Strategic analytics, a major analysis company the number of subscribers taking out broadband services during 2009 is due to rise even in light of current economic conditions and tightening budgets in the home. Five million new broadband customers are to be added to the US broadband service providers’ networks over 2009 according to this ...

As long as they focus on areas like education, homeland security and the healthcare markets many providers of wireless kits could get a substantial financial injection from the economic stimulus package from President Obama. Between 2009 and 2010 the $6.8 billion that has been set for new deployments and upgrades to wireless communications could see some industries greatly benefiting from ...

Plans have been made recently by AT&T for work to begin in the later part of 2009 on its 3G network and by the completion date of 2011 these upgrades should provide users with much faster mobile broadband connection speeds. There are also plans to double the amount of spectrum that is being used for its 3G network in many ...