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It was recently announced by a leading provider in the US of broadband wireless connectivity devices, Solectek Corporation, that Buy America status has been given by US Department of Agriculture Rural Utility Services (RUS) and USDA acceptance has been awarded to its WiMAX product range. The CEO of Solectek, Dr Eric Lee said “The USDA listing for SkyWay MAX is ...

Instead of using the usual broadband per capita the Phoenix Center announced the Broadband Adoption Index on 15th July, which it advised allows for an improved basis for comparing worldwide broadband adoption rates. In order to strengthen the argument by the Hill and agency Democrats that the US is lagging behind a number of other countries in terms of adoption ...

In order to prepare for its applications for a part of the $4 billion broadband stimulus funds, leading enterprise-class wireless broadband provider, ERF has enlisted the consulting firm ACRS 2000 Corp. of Oklahoma City, Okla to help it. The broadband stimulus program has been created to speed up the rollout of broadband to rural America and before the deadline for ...

The On Demand Online trials currently underway by the cable operator Comcast, which will provide 5000 households throughout the country with access to streaming TV channels that they are currently eligible to receive using their broadband connection, has now seen HBO as the latest programmer to say that it is interested in taking part. Based on the “TV Everywhere” initiative ...

Following the recent announcement that the Swedish mobile operator, Ericsson will soon be running both the wired and wireless networks owned by Sprint-Nextel many experts are questioning how it is going to do it. The new partner has announced that Sprint has signed a seven year renewable contract that will see Sprint paying Ericsson around $4.5 to $5 billion to ...

In order to review the huge number of applications for grants and funding the National Telecommunication and Information Administration (NTIA) have advised that it will require many volunteers to help it allocate the $4.7 billion in broadband deployment grants. The US congress gave its approval earlier in the year for a massive $7.2 billion economic stimulus package, which included broadband ...

Based on the findings of a new report from Entropy Economics the amount of bandwidth used by consumers has jumped a huge amount in the last eight years, which is contrary to the current popular opinion of broadband usage. This latest report has shown that in 2008 the US consumer bandwidth had reached 717 Terabits per second which equates to ...

In an effort to expand its current coverage within the US, network operator Clearwire has announced that it will be adding Las Vegas to the three major cities it currently provides services and will be commercially offering user in this area access to mobile WiMAX wireless broadband services. Oregon and Portland were the first cities to get Clearwire’s WiMAX service, ...

The Obama administration have announced that in order to get some of the $7.2 billion from the broadband stimulus package, an agreement must be made by broadband provider with regards to net neutrality regulations that have been laid down. The latest Internet Policy Statement from the Federal Communication Commission, which prohibits network operators from slowing down or blocking internet traffic ...

The criteria that will allow the stimulus funding that has been set aside for universal mobile broadband projects throughout the US to be allocated has now been published by the US Obama administration. Many of the initiatives in the rural areas are expected to be through wireless network providers will a lot of interest being shown be the WiMAX providers ...