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NEWS ABOUT: broadband Internet

broadband Internet stories: 34 news summaries

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Sprint Primed for WiMax Launch

Partnerships help company ready new wireless network

Jan 10, 08 1:17 PM CST
(Newser) - Sprint has unveiled new corporate partnerships to help meet its goal of deploying its WiMax wireless broadband network in DC, Baltimore, and Chicago by April, the Washington Post reports. The wireless provider has joined with several companies to provide online storage, security, and mobile devices for WiMax, which offers speeds... More »

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Internet • broadband Internet • wireless • Sprint • WiMax • DSL

UK Plans Cheap Web Access for All Students

Broadband to become compulsory under new schools program

Jan 4, 08 11:50 AM CST
(Newser) - The Brown government is collaborating with Britain's top IT companies to provide Internet access to every child in the country. A major education review recently urged closing the widening achievement gap between rich and poor families. In effect, a broadband Internet connection is becoming compulsory, the Guardian reports. More »

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education • Internet • broadband Internet • United Kingdom

Critics Blast Claims of Net Outages by 2010

Lambaste industry group behind study predicting failures

Nov 25, 07 3:39 PM CST
(Newser) - Ominous warnings earlier this week of a looming Internet disaster are highly misleading, suggest critics. "As we've stated previously, most warnings of capacity armageddon come from traffic shaping companies looking to sell hardware," the industry web site Broadband Reports writes about a recent Nemertes Research study, which was... More »

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Internet • broadband Internet • Internet service providers • bandwidth usage • web traffic

FCC Gives Boost to 'Telehealth'

$417M in grants will bring broadband to rural hospitals

Nov 21, 07 12:04 PM CST
(Newser) - High-speed Internet access funded by $417 million in FCC grants will change how healthcare is provided in rural or heard-to-reach areas across the US, bringing top-end clinical and diagnostic resourced to underserved patients and doctors, the Washington Post reports. Some 6,000 clinics, hospitals, research facilities and universities will be... More »

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health care • technology • FCC • broadband Internet

MetroPCs Bid For Leap Falls

Withdraws $4.7B offer for rival

Nov 1, 07 10:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - The proposed multi-billion dollar merger of rival discount wireless service providers has collapsed amid acrimony. AP reports MetroPCS Communications is withdrawing it's $4.7 Billion bid for Leap Wireless International. The Leap board had rejected the bid as "financially inadequate." Both companies allow customers to pay up front... More »

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cell phones • broadband Internet • mergers and acquisitions • MetroPCs • Leap Wireless International • wireless service

States Pick Up Dropped Broadband Ball

US still lags behind in high-speed Internet availability

Nov 1, 07 11:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the federal government dropping the ball on broadband Internet deployments, many states are picking it up, the Wall Street Journal reports. A Kentucky program has brought wireless to 95% of the largely rural state, and imitation programs have sprung up in West Virginia and Tennessee. Liking what he sees,... More »

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FCC • broadband Internet • Kentucky • Tennessee • West Virginia • Zack Space

ITU Head Wants Broadband Net Help for Africa

Less than 1% on continent have high-speed access

Oct 28, 07 10:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fewer than four per cent of Africans use the Internet and less than one per cent have broadband access, helping to keep Africa behind in education, medicine and business, the BBC reports. Dr Hamadoun Toure, head of the International Telecommunication Union, is asking world organizations to make sure a third... More »

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Africa • United Nations • Internet • broadband Internet • World Bank • Intel • World Health Organization • Rwanda • Dr Hamadoun Toure • International Telecommunication Union • Kigali institute of technology.

Senate Would Extend Web
Tax Ban 7 Years

Will have to reconcile with House bill setting exemption at 4 years

Oct 26, 07 3:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Senate passed a bill yesterday to extend a ban on Internet access taxes for 7 years; it will have to be reconciled with a House bill—which has a 4-year lifespan—and signed into law by next Thursday to beat the current law’s expiration date. The bill was... More »

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taxes • broadband Internet • email • instant messaging • moratorium • web services

Cable, Telcos Killing US
Web Success
Says Pundit

Sees broadband providers' Luddite attitudes stifling growth, innovation

Oct 22, 07 11:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Comcast’s recent disabling of big file uploads could lay waste to Silicon Valley’s media complex, says SiliconValleyWatcher’s Tom Foremski, injuring or killing Web 2.0 companies like YouTube or Facebook. Comcast's insistence that it isn’t contractually obligated to provide those companies’ services, he argues, is the... More »

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Google • YouTube • Comcast • cable TV • broadband Internet • Facebook • digital downloads • telecom • net neutrality • BitTorrent • telecommunications • web services

Rural America
Gets Wired

US has paid providers $1B to bring broadband to remote areas; progress is uneven

Sep 19, 07 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Measured by President Bush's goal—to give every America access to broadband this year—it's not a success. But the effort to wire rural America has made impressive progress, the Economist reports. The US government has given more than $1 billion to internet providers in distant markets in an effort... More »

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Internet • broadband Internet • America • grants • rural area

DOJ Knocks Down 'Net Neutrality'

Says ISPs should be able to charge consumers more for priority traffic

Sep 6, 07 8:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Internet service providers should be able to charge a premium for customers who want certain content to load faster than others, the Justice Department said today. In a recommendation to the FCC, Justice claimed "net neutrality"—the idea that all websites should be equally accessible—could slow online... More »

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Internet • Department of Justice • broadband Internet • net neutrality • ISP

Reality Bytes: Bobbies Bust
Wi-Fi Squatter

Web surfer jailed for freeloading on network

Aug 23, 07 3:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - London bobbies took a byte out of an internet surfer's liberty yesterday when they tossed him in jail for freeloading on someone else's wireless network. "This arrest should act as a warning to anyone who thinks it is acceptable to illegally use other people's broadband connections," admonished a... More »

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Internet • London • broadband Internet • wireless • WiFi

Google Stokes Wireless Competition With $4.6B Bid

Search giant set to buy wireless frequencies

Jul 22, 07 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google is poised to bid $4.6 billion in the upcoming federal auction of wireless frequencies,  to create a national broadband network that could challenge the dominance of companies like AT&T and Comcast. If Google's bid triumphs, the web search giant could expand into selling Internet, telephone and... More »

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Google • Internet • FCC • broadband Internet • wireless • network • auction • web • Eric Schmidt • wireless frequencies

(Newser) - The Software & Information Industry Association has rolled out its list of the top 10 e-commerce developments of the past decade:
  1. Google (Sept. 1998)
  2. Broadband Penetration of U.S. Internet Users Reaches 50% (June 2004)
  3. eBay Auctions (launched Sept. 1997)
  4. Amazon.com (IPO May 1997):
  5. Google Ad Words
... More »

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Google • eBay • broadband Internet • user generated content • iTunes • list • BlackBerry • open standards • SIIA • WiFi • AdSense • Amazon.com

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