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'ONCE YOU'VE USED IT, you'll never go back!' 'It's a whole new Internet!' 'Staggering speed!' Are you as tired as I am of gushing cliches from broadband service providers and […]

Interactive multimedia is a classic chicken-and-egg proposition for most telecommunications carriers. How can a carrier create a network without knowing what it will be expected to transport? On the other […]

Carriers have been preparing for the information age for a long time. The much-discussed broadband network that will catapult the world into a new era is built and ready to […]

O2 will this week step up its battle with broadband suppliers by launching a pounds 5m campaign accusing rivals of making misleading claims and offering poor customer service. The ads, [...]

Despite the difficult economy, the number of adult Americans with broadband connectivity at home increased nearly 15% between 2008 and 2009, according to data released today from the Pew Internet [...]

It seems like every cable network's got a Web programming presence, but none is certain how to use it. In the past month cable programmers SoapNet and Discovery Communications have [...]

In sub-Saharan Africa, where you can drive for hundreds of miles without seeing a single phone line, it's easier to check your e-mail than your voice mail, thanks in part […]

Test your knowledge of current industry events with the following quiz * After discovering a flaw in how data transmits across the Web, engineer Paul Watson was dubbed 'The Savior [...]

Comcast [Nasdaq: CMCSA] on Thursday began doubling the download speeds in some markets for its residential high-speed Internet service from 1.5 Mbps to 3 Mbps. The faster service debuted in […]

SBC Communications [NYSE: SBC] and Yahoo [NYSE: YHOO] on Tuesday announced a number of upgrades to their joint broadband Internet service, including enhanced privacy and e-mail features. Other upgrades for […]

TELECOM giant BT has been accused of misleading rural businesses about the rollout of high speed internet access across the countryside. The Country Land and Business Association claims that BT […]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Business ISP BT Openworld is set to offer SMEs a chance to try out broadband before they buy it. The initiative was made possible […]

Given the near ubiquity of cable television, it's sometimes easy to forget that not all of that cable plant is broadband-ready. But even among major MSOs, broadband deployment continues. An […]

Going once... Following the path of dozens of would-be entrepreneurs selling off goodies accumulated during the late 1990s' economic boom, Alex Clear turned to eBay not long after getting fired [...]

Byline: Vince Vittore Despite the recent entry of numerous small telcos into the video market, two of the largest carriers already deploying the service, Qwest Communications and SureWest Communications, apparently [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Telewest is now able to offer cable broadband services in Devon and Cornwall, UK. The company has been upgrading the analogue network to digital […]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A new scheme is being trialled by BT, a UK telecomms company, that could allow small towns to get broadband Internet access. The new […]

Troubled U.K. cable television and broadband provider Telewest [TWSTY] released interim first-half results showing strong broadband growth. Telewest added 51,000 broadband subscribers in the second quarter, a 40 percent growth […]

A group centered around the University of Georgia's New Media Institute has announced plans to deploy a free, wireless broadband Internet access 'cloud' over a 24 block area of downtown […]

Managed web hosting company and ISP BurstNET Technologies is launching a high-speed fixed wireless broadband offering in northeast Pennsylvania. The company presently lists Scranton as available, with Wilkes-Barre going online […]

James Rogers Welsh economic development minister Andrew Davies believes that Wales' ambitious broadband strategy will place the country at the forefront of the UK's broadband race. Launched last week, the […]

John Riley The Government is planning a major cash injection for the UK's broadband infrastructure, which a number of reports have shown to be lagging behind those of other European […]

As the pool of telecommunications service providers shrinks, equipment manufacturers are looking to cable operators to inject competition into the entrenched telephone market. Analysts doubt, however, that cable companies will […]

Cable is truly the last man standing, the last credible force for introducing genuine competition into the telecommunications market. It's no secret that residential competition is virtually non-existent--and even in [...]

AT&T Broadband [T] has launched its 1.5 Mbps down/256 Kbps up cable Internet service in East Plano, Texas. The initial rollout covers some 500 homes in the Dallas suburb, but […]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Business broadband provider easynet has announced the immediate availability of easynet OfficeHost. The web hosting solution is designed primarily for companies that are expanding […]

AOL Time-Warner's [AOL] America Online ISP continues its cautious rollout of cable-modem broadband service over Time Warner cable systems with a launch in Shreveport, La. The system covers Shreveport itself, […]

United Online [UNTD], the ISP formed by the 2001 merger of free Internet access providers NetZero and Juno, has moved into the broadband market. United Online launched its Juno Broadband […]

Byline: Chris Sewell Walking the streets of Blacksburg, Va., you would never guess that the town's population of 40,000 locals and Virginia Tech University students are harboring a broadband secret. [...]

North Central Service Cooperative, which collaborates with 538 educational, farming, utility and telephone cooperatives in 38 states, is working with World Wide Technology Consultants and Xtratyme Technologies to provide financing […]

When AOL Time Warner's [AOL] Richard Parsons becomes CEO later this month, he plans to streamline and simplify the media giant's corporate structure and get its online unit sailing on […]

That well-worn buzzword "convergence" is taking hold in broadband access, as cable and telephone companies begin nibbling into one another's markets, and it's prompting technology tweaks on both sides. That's […]

Byline: Jim Barthold The high-definition video offerings cable operators are launching to compete with direct broadcast satellite also threaten to encroach on telecom carriers' video-over-ADSL efforts. As a result, telcos [...]

Not wanting to bet on any one player as yet, Hollywood studios are tiptoeing into many waters of broadband businesses. Studios are spreading the risk in offering movies to a […]

Byline: Jim Barthold The cable industry plans to dominate the broadband space with future products based on the industry's DOCSIS high-speed data specifications. Cable calls this worldwide effort Broadband 1.0. [...]

Byline: Jim Barthold Comcast President Brian Roberts says his company has done yeoman's work replacing the now-defunct Excite@Home network. But thousands of high-speed subscribers in his own backyard - Philadelphia [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD BTopenworld, the mass market Internet division of BT, has announced that it will begin an integrated marketing programme aimed at promoting broadband adoption in […]

The prospects for high-speed Internet connections are looking up DESPITE the government's stated aim of having 'the most extensive and competitive broadband market' in the developed world by 2005, Britain [...]

Santa Clara, Calif.-headquartered Minerva Networks Inc. announced Tuesday that it has delivered 81 of its video network platform (VNP) IP encoders and decoders to China Censtream Broadband Networks Inc. (CBN) […]

Unless AT&T Broadband and Comcast Corp. change their policies toward business broadband users, the merger of the two companies will result in the creation of an even larger entity characterized […]

What to do when the connection goes dark. Second in a two-part series. Ryan Anderson, a senior interface designer with Turner Consulting Group, is facing shutdown by his broadband provider. […]

Byline: Robert J. Samuelson 'What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar.' --Thomas Riley Marshall, Vice President of the United States, 1913-1921 To paraphrase and adjust the math: [...]

AT&T Broadband, the nation's largest cable company, this week kicks off a long-awaited addressable advertising trial that will enable participating marketers to target consumers more efficiently. The AT&T Corp. company's […]