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The Internet is a large network of computer networks that allows people to access information on a wealth of topics and communicate on-line to any person and to any place. Anyone who has a personal computer, a telephone line, modem, communications software and an account with an Internet service provider can connect to the Internet. Internet has become a popular communication tool among businesses because it allows them to reach a wider consumer market with greater efficiency at less costs. Aside from the electronic mail and database service, the Internet also offers file transfer and remote log on programs.

On-line broadband multimedia services will enable subscribers to use local telephone or cable networks for accessing desired data. Computer users who intend to download files from computer networks have to wait a while before the information finally arrives even if they are using the fastest modem available in the market. The vast fiber and hybrid-coax network bandwidth will revolutionize the access and use of computer networks such as the Internet., THE THREE LARGEST COMPETITORS AREN'T WAITING FOR THE NETWORK TO GO BROADBAND. THEY'RE DEVISING MULTIMEDIA STRATEGIES AND APPLICATIONS TODAY. Brian Ek's problem was familiar to Internet denizens. While cruising the [...]

Byline: Philip Hunter Cable and broadband operators were offered a bargain by the European Union's digital agenda commissioner and vice president Neelie Kroes at last week's Cable Congress in Brussels. [...]

Going national with Time Warner.... A vast, sparsely populated home territory is usually cited as a problem for U S West. But its data unit, the newly renamed !nterprise Networking […]

Serving rural communities in South Texas, Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (VTCI) has selected the FusionTV platform from Entone to enable the delivery of hybrid TV services to subscribers of the [...]

Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV), the pan-European initiative aimed at harmonizing broadcast and broadband content delivery via the Internet, is having an impact on consumer acceptance of connected TVs in [...]

The plan proposing a future Big Stick broadcast overlay of existing wireless operator networks will raise more than $60 billion for the U.S. Treasury a more than three times the [...]

KIT Digital, based in the Czech Republic, has joined forces with Harmonic to offer an end-to-end multiscreen video platform optimized for performance. The two companies are working together to create [...]

Byline: Philip Hunter Momentum behind the HbbTV hybrid standard designed to unify broadcast and broadband services behind a common user interface is gathering pace in Europe outside the UK with [...]

BT has selected six UK communities to receive Infinity broadband, following its three-month 'Race to Infinity' campaign. The service will offer download speeds of up to 40MB by early 2012. [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli A consortium of local TV stations formed to promote and deliver mobile video to consumers as an adjunct of the stations' terrestrial DTV service said that a [...]

Byline: Phil Kurz If you thought the ATSC standard in general, 8VSB modulation in particular and the recently adopted ATSC A153 Mobile DTV standard were final chapters in over-the-air TV [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The National Football League wants to reach as many eyeballs with its content as possible, while Verizon Wireless wants to make the most of its huge investment [...]

Byline: Debra Kaufman According to Forbes, wireless broadband start-up LightSquared may be collaborating with Qualcomm on dual-mode chips to support the hybrid satellite/terrestrial mobile broadband network that LightSquared plans to [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Blair Levin, the FCC's former broadband czar, has revealed a formula for deploying broadband to 97 percent of the country for $10 billion over the next decade. [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Clearwire has introduced a pay-as-you-go wireless 4G mobile broadband service called Rover that starts at $5 per day, $20 per week (seven consecutive days) or $50 per [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Rice University researchers have won a $1.8 million federal grant for one of the nationas first, real-world tests of wireless communications technology that uses a broad spectral [...]

CORPORATE IT UPDATE-(C)1995-2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Florida Rural Broadband Alliance (FRBA), an organisation formed to deploy 'Middle Mile' infrastructure to link large-scale service providers with local, retail service providers in the [...]

Byline: Phil Kurz What do foraging bacteria, invasive weeds, hungry ants looking for a quick meal, swarming fish in search of food and even genetics have to do with ways [...]

Hearst Television, one of the largest station groups in the U.S., has adopted the Streambox Live broadband video contribution service for all of its 29 television stations. With Streambox Live, [...]

Hearst Television has adopted the Streambox Live broadband video contribution service for all of its 29 TV stations. With Streambox Live, local news teams have a highly flexible, cost-effective alternative [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Two House members have introduced legislation designed to help ensure that broadcasters who choose to give up their spectrum for broadband services do so voluntarily. However, the [...]

CORPORATE IT UPDATE-(C)1995-2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Converged access solutions provider ADTRAN Inc (Nasdaq:ADTN) announced on Monday that WNM Communications (WNMC) has selected its Total Access 5000 Multi-Service Access and Aggregation Platform [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli The FCC's new National Broadband Plan sets only modest goals for the United States at 4Mb/s universal service by 2020. This has members of Congress asking questions [...]

The Government has reasserted its intention to improve broadband penetration across the UK and allow convergence of local media. Speaking at the annual reception of the all-party Parliamentary Media Group, [...]

Byline: Phil Kurz The Obama administration this week said it favors freeing up 500MHz of spectrum for wireless Internet broadband service over the next decade and supports the FCCas plan [...]

Speaking to a group of broadcasters in Virginia last week, FCC commissioner Robert McDowell said he favors 'exploring the possibilities' of voluntary transfer of some broadcast spectrum for wireless broadband [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli While much has been reported about regarding ESPN's extensive TV coverage of the World Cup, all 64 matches will be aired live in HD, the network is [...]

Byline: Debra Kaufman Terrestrial mobile TV is over in Spain, according to Bernardo Lorenzo, Ministry of Industry director general of telecommunications. That is, unless demand for mobile digital terrestrial TV [...]

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, [...]

Byline: Jack Kontney While the broadcast industry has indicated its collective dismay at some of the details contained within the FCC's National Broadband Plan, two of the biggest players in [...]

Byline: Steve Plunkett It's a term that has been widely used and long predicted in the digital media, online and TV worlds: convergence. Convergence is the bringing together of broadcast-driven [...]

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced the selection of broadband infrastructure projects to give rural residents in 8 states access to improved economic and educational opportunities. Funding for the projects [...]

by Staff An Information Highway, Just Like the Interstate We need to think of broadband as infrastructure and not some silly little thing. Did we depend on private companies to [...]

by John Eggerton FCC's Plan Sets Ambitious 10-Year Goals for Nationwide High-Speed Rollout Washington-- When the Federal Communications Commission releases its national broadband plan on March 16, it's not likely [...]

by John Eggerton Washington-- Broadband-stimulus grant recipients need to get the number of a good tax attorney. That was essentially the message from the Treasury Department to the National Telecommunications [...]

CORPORATE IT UPDATE-(C)1995-2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Privately held telecoms carrier 123Net yesterday announced that it has acquired several hundred Internet customers from 20/20 Communications, a company based in Ann Arbor which [...]

CORPORATE IT UPDATE-(C)1995-2010 M2 COMMUNICATIONS Broadband network solutions provider Sandvine (TSX:SVC) (AIM:SAND) announced on Wednesday that it has won six new service provider customers. No financial details were disclosed. The [...]

Byline: Phil Kurz FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski called on TV broadcasters Feb. 24 to give up their spectrum voluntarily to help the nation meet perceived future demand for wireless broadband [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Broadcasters have been anxiously waiting to hear how much spectrum the FCC will ask them to relinquish to support the Obama's administration's vision of nationwide broadband access. [...]

Byline: Michael Grotticelli Sezmi, a subscription TV service aimed at converting cable and satellite TV subscribers, officially launched Feb. 18 in Los Angeles and parts of surrounding counties, following a [...]

Virgin Media is pretty confident about its new music streaming and download service, claiming that it's 'arguably the biggest development since the launch of iTunes'. The initiative, entitled MusicFish, will [...]

President Barack Obama has proposed a 2011 funding level for the Federal Communications Commission of $352.5 million in the budget he submitted Monday Congress. The fiscal year 2011 budget proposal [...]