High Speed Internet News

The downtown Columbia campus of the University of South Carolina is to be completely covered with Wi-Fi broadband services according to a recent announcement from the US internet service provider AT&T. Access to the internet is to be made available to areas in and around the 160 buildings on the campus and the plans will provide 30 000 staff, faculty ...

The internet was awash with angry users recently arguing about censorship and neutrality as the hugely popular telecoms operator AT&T blocked 4chan temporarily. The internet recently went crazy as the net meme generator and internet forum 4chan was reported to have been blocked by the telecoms giant AT&T.

After a recent partnership was agreed between Boingo wireless, one of the biggest Wi-Fi hotspot operators, and the US telecommunications Group, Verizon Communications the two companies will be offering free Wi-Fi access to any of their customers that use broadband DSL and FiOS services. Until now Verizon has steered clear of Wi-Fi broadband services in the fear that it would ...

Mobile broadband is arguably the most important development in internet technology since the dawn of the broadband era itself. Rather than relying on the fixed line services offered by ADSL and Cable broadband providers it uses 3G mobile networks, allowing its customers to roam around the country and indeed the world and still have access to the internet at ...

According to a recent report there has been significant growth in the US broadband market, largely fuelled by specific groups such as seniors and low income groups. According to recent industry figures the level of broadband penetration in the United States soared to sixty three percent for the month of March of this year. This comes despite an increase in ...

The funding application process, which will see the release of loans and grants worth $4 billion by the U.S. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), will be providing a competitive advantage by creating broadband coverage maps using geographic information systems (GIS) technology. With help from the non-profit organisation, Connected Nation and using the ArcGIS technology from ESRI the geographical broadband ...

An announcement was recently made by equipment manufacturer, Wireless Matrix, of its state-of-the-art integration of Wireless LAN, 3G cellular broadband and GPS technologies in a single platform that will be vehicle mounted, known as Communicator 1000 mobile hotspot. The release of this new device is said to be building on the tradition of innovation that saw the company produce the ...

In an effort to keep pace with the broadband speeds offered by cable providers in the US the internet download speeds for Qwest communications International Inc. is set to double in some parts of the country. Certain areas of 15 cities including Salt Lake City; Minneapolis/St Paul.; Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona; Denver and Vancouver and Seattle, Washington will soon be ...

Concern have been raised by CIOs of municipal governments that the application deadline of 14th August for the initial round of grants from the US stimulus package for broadband related projects will not give them enough time to plan. Based on previous meetings with the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural ...

In order to enhance the quality of broadband access in the more rural areas of south-western Michigan there is currently a great need for funding from the Federal broadband stimulus. Last week saw the beginning of the application process by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which will see the implementation of high-speed broadband services throughout the country, with part ...