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In a new proposal that has been deemed as unrealistic by many companies specialising in telecommunication the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US has confirmed its intention to require that by 2010 all homes should be offered a minimum broadband connection from their broadband internet service provider. According to the chairman of the commission Julius Genachowski the FCC wants ...

An LTE (Long-Term Evolution) monitoring system that is similar to the Iris range of products and works on evolved packet core (EPC) networks has recently been launched by telecoms company Tektronix. Amongst the products that will be included in the new LTE monitoring system from Telstra is a common platform that provides an integrated framework for any current or future ...

Despite the Internet becoming an integral part of many peoples lives a report has revealed that a massive one third of the United States does not use the Internet at all. For many people in the United States having access to broadband internet is essential, and has become an integral part of both home and work life. Some businesses rely ...

According to a recently released report from research group In-Stat the US saw an increase of 28 percent last year in broadband download speeds and a 16 percent rise compared to last year in broadband upload speeds. The report, which was called “US Residential Broadband Speeds Accelerate” was based on a report released by In-Stat and shows an overall average ...

It has recently been announced by search engine giant, Google that it will be building a 1Gbps high-speed broadband directly to the homes of users as an experiment to see how expensive such a network would be to build. There are currently a number of ongoing discussions regarding the cost of building a super fast broadband network and also whether ...

Competition between three groups in Maryland for Federal stimulus funding with a lack of matching funds for their causes has been cited by local officials as the reason for their request being rejected. An attempt to obtain the same Federal stimulus funding to expand a super-fast broadband network by several group within Maryland has led to outcry from local officials ...

A study recently carried out by Pew has shown that an increasing number of teenagers are now losing interest in social networking websites and blogging, which now mean that these areas are now mainly used by adults. A decline was shown in the number of teenagers that use blogging from 28 percent in 2006 to just 18 percent in 2009 ...

A recent report issued by Akamai has found that on average countries like Romania, Switzerland and South Korea all enjoy faster broadband connection speeds that the US. The average broadband speeds of many countries around the world were found to be faster then in the US according to the quarterly “State of the Internet Report” released by Akamai, a technology ...

Many of the countrys wireless broadband carriers are currently looking at charging their customers based on their internet usage in order to cover the huge sums of money they have poured into increasing the capacity of their networks. With improvements to the capacity of their networks costing wireless broadband telecommunications company billions of dollars the carriers are now having to ...

Telecommunications and broadband giant Verizon has recently reported strong growth levels for the fourth quarter of last year with its broadband services as well as in other areas. It has recently been reported by the telecommunications and broadband giant Verizon that the company enjoy strong growth in the final quarter of last year. The company claims that it saw a ...