Broadband News
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Is there a connection between high Internet use and sleep? A new study indicates so, with the research drawing a connection between broadband Internet use and sleep deprivation.
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Starry Internet has announced it will launch a beta of its wireless broadband service in Los Angeles and Washington DC later this month. Starry Internet's also partnering with Marvell to improve wireless broadband technologies.
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Washington -
The Trump administration’s decision to end Net Neutrality will be a disaster for business, for consumers, and for trade. This decision can turn the internet into Big Pharma v.2. Is that bad enough? How much worse does it need to be?
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Verizon has announced it will rollout 5G broadband to select areas in 2018. The company is determined to lead the charge towards 5G connectivity amid competition from industry rivals. Verizon's first service will be a 5G-powered home broadband connection.
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The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has announced broadband providers will be banned from advertising misleading speeds that are available to only a few users. Providers cannot use the phrase "up to" and must list generally representative speeds.
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London -
British businesses have welcomed the announcement by the U.K. government concerning the roll out of 'full-fiber' broadband. Six areas in the U.K. have been named as test areas.
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In a landmark ruling, the government of Canada has declared high-speed broadband Internet a ‘basic telecommunications service’ guaranteed to all Canadians.
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Net neutrality has been a key topic this year. Breakthroughs have been made in the U.S. and EU that help to safeguard the Internet's neutrality but there are ongoing concerns. In this article, we'll look at net neutrality in the U.S., EU and Canada.
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Amazon is reportedly considering becoming a broadband provider in Europe. The company wants to resell internet services to Prime subscribers, enabling it to further diversity its product range. A U.S. launch is unlikely due to network restrictions.
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The European Union is planning to set ambitious new targets for universal Internet connections over the next decade. It wants to see everyone in Europe able to access 100Mbps ultrafast broadband by 2025, allowing for new online experiences.
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UK internet service provider BT has successfully completed a trial of prototype broadband infrastructure with download speeds of up to 5.6Tbps. While still a long way from being publicly available, the technology could transform how we connect online.
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BT, the UK's largest broadband provider, has admitted a "testing" error resulted in every email sent across its network being forwarded to a single account for a brief period this week. A "Steve Webb" received every email sent by BT users.
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Google is going to discontinue its free Internet service in Kansas City. Since the launch of Google Fiber, residents have been able to pay a one-time construction fee and then receive unlimited Internet access for free, a deal Google has decided to end.
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A team of researchers have set a new record for the fastest ever data rate used to transfer digital information. The system can handle speeds in excess of 1 terabit per second, responding to the growing demand for faster networks.
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A team of Japanese researchers have developed a Wi-Fi transmitter capable of sustaining a 100 gigabit per second connection speed. The breakthrough, using very short waves, lets mobile devices download an HD film in under a second.
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UK PM David Cameron has pledged to introduce a "universal service obligation" for broadband Internet that will see it obtain a similar status to water and electricity and force providers to offer fast connections to every home and business by 2020.
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Scientists have discovered a way to keep data moving at high speeds over very long fibre optic networks by preventing the signals from weakening. It removes a key limitation of fibre today and could make future networks faster and significantly cheaper.
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AOL has revealed it has still has 2.1 million subscribers using its ancient dial-up Internet service provided by landline telephones and only offering speeds of 56 kilobits per second. It seems that some will steadfastly resist the modern Internet.
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Although high-speed Internet and telephone options are available to billions of people, there is still a large percentage of the population without this important technological benefit.
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AT&T is attempting to use its status as a common carrier mobile voice provider to overcome a ruling by the FTC that would prevent it from throttling the mobile data speeds of its "unlimited" customers.
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Jess Walser, from central New York, says Time Warner Cable wanted to charge him $20,000 for access to broadband internet.
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Under the guidance and support of Next Century Cities, an organized effort is underway to revamp Internet infrastructure on a community level for the 21st century.
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An advert for a U.K. broadband service, featuring the actor Bruce Willis, has been banned from being screened because the claims made in the advert have been deemed to be ‘misleading’.
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An advert for a U.K. broadband service, featuring the actor Bruce Willis, has been banned from being screened because the claims made in the advert have been deemed to be ‘misleading’.
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TV is no longer a device which gathers families in a single room of the house while they share hours together. Thanks to the Internet, it evolved into allowing individual viewers to chose what they want to watch without the constraints of space or time.
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Geneva -
Today is a birthday of sorts - twenty years ago today, CERN donated the technologies underpinning the World Wide Web to the public domain.
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The good news is that high speed broadband has well and truly arrived. The bad news is that crooks, con men and muggers have migrated wholesale on-line.
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Recent statistics show that Britons use the Internet more than any other European country. In addition, the costs to connect are cheaper.
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Auckland -
Dotcom's new file sharing website, Me.ga, will need bandwidth to carry all the new traffic that comes with it. New Zealand currently has only one transpacific fiber cable network, so he will build another one.
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In discussing the future of media, it is important to address the underlying present-day technologies that are governing the transformations and directions to come.
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An internet user surfing the net on her Blackberry in Lagos, Nigeria
A picture of wired broadband throughout the country. Wikimedia Commons, Jeff Ogden on Creative Commons
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