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It has recently been announced that a number of Tier 2 US broadband network carriers have now refused funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) along with many of the Tier 1 carriers that have declined the money as well. Although there may be far more carriers refusing the funding than there are accepting the money there will ...

How the telecoms industry provides broadband services to consumers could be drastically changed following recent step by the US telecommunications regulator to get the public to define what ‘broadband’ is. The drafting of a national broadband plan by the Federal Communications commission is currently underway and is due to be submitted in mid-February to Congress. During this time the FCC ...

A popular US communications company has been named recently as one of the top one hundred broadband companies in America by the Broadband Properties magazine. According to a recent report one communications company in the United States has enjoyed the honour of making the top one hundred broadband companies in America list. The top one hundred broadband companies list was ...

In an effort to improve the emergency networks for public safety agencies and to increase productivity within local businesses a $100 million in federal stimulus funding is being sought by Prince Georges, Howard Counties, Montgomery and eight other jurisdictions in Maryland in order to expand their broadband internet capabilities. The provision of high capacity super-fast broadband connections to allow libraries, ...

It has been shown that the United States is spending billions of dollars in order to try and get the nation up to speed when it comes to its broadband offerings. Despite the fact that the United States of America is a huge and powerful nation one of the areas in which it has performed poorly is in terms of ...

So far there has been no indication given by network operator Clearwire as to its intentions for seeking stimulus funding in order to achieve its goal to provide and wireless broadband network throughout the country, although two other WiMAX providers have sought stimulus funding. A report from a popular technology new site advised that WiMAX network providers, KeyOn and TowerStream ...

Recent figures have shown that there has been a dramatic slowdown in the growth of broadband take up in the United States, and this has been attributed to a number of factors. Figures that have recently been released in the United States have shown that the level of growth in broadband take up with the major broadband suppliers in the ...

It has been announced that the deadline for grants and loans for broadband in the United States has been extended by a week because of technical problems that occurred following a huge influx of applications. A grants and loans program to the value of over seven billion dollars that was set up by the United States government has been extended ...

A number of industry experts have recently said that although wireless phone services are overtaking fixed landline connections it is unlikely that cable and DSL services will be displaced by new 4G wireless broadband technology due to the difference in data demands. The testing of a wireless broadband technology that will be able to offer connection speeds matching that of ...

Industry experts in the United States have expressed concern that many small businesses in rural areas could end up suffering as a result of lack of broadband access in these areas. A number of industry experts in the United States have recently expressed their concerns over many small businesses and industries in rural areas of the country could end up ...