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A boost of $3 million could soon be received by Bristol Virginia Utilities as it works towards improving its fibre-optic broadband telecommunications network. A recommendation for an appropriation of $3 million for the BVU was made recently by the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission’s Southwest Economic Development Committee.

The signing of an accord with the Internet regulator Icann on Wednesday will see the US government set to reduce the level of control it currently has over the running of the broadband internet. For the first time Icann will apparently be able to run its affairs on its own following the “Affirmation of commitments”. Many countries around the world ...

With some phone calls being blocked by its Google voice service the software giant, Google has been accused of being a hypocrite in term of net neutrality by telecommunications provider, AT&T. The violation of the net neutrality principles, which Google has openly supported now for quite a while, has been claimed by AT&T in a letter to the Federal Communications ...

In a recent meeting that was held earlier this week the chairman of the Federal Communication Commission gave a speech, stating that it was vital to preserve the free and open internet in the United States. Earlier this week the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission gave a speech with regards to the importance of free and open internet. Julius ...

It has been estimated that the unlicensed white spaces that many broadband technology companies and the software giant, Microsoft are desperate to get their hands on could have a value of over $100 billion over the next 15 years according to a recent study commissioned by the Microsoft Corporation. It has been suggested that white spaces could stand to generate ...

An effort by the Senate Republicans to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from receiving funding as a protest against its net neutrality rules proposals has now been stopped according to officials. A member of staff for the committee recently advised “While we are still generally opposed to net neutrality regulations, we have decided to hold off on the amendment because ...

It has been revealed as part of a recent survey that many broadband users in the United States expect their websites to load up in the space of two seconds. When it comes to broadband speeds in the United States most consumers are keen to get the best speeds that they are able to, as this can save them time, ...

According to comments made by an official at the FCC recently, new rules that will stop internet service providers from interfering with some applications and the free flow of information over their broadband networks are to be proposed by the head of the FCC. Although no formal announcement had been made yet, the anonymous official advised that proposals for the ...

The first round of stimulus funding saw almost 2200 applications making requests for almost $28 billion from the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) earlier in the month according to the NTIA, which is one of the government agencies that has been tasked with handing out a large portion of ...

In order to combat key obstacles that are currently limiting 3G and 4G service growth and to help with the roll out of in-building and outdoor wireless broadband services that will provide the highest levels of performance a new business model has been announced by a provider of in-building communications solutions, Intelibs. Using its own technology and working with its ...