Even if your home has a powerful Internet connection, you’ve likely experienced some occasinal Wi-Fi clogs if you share your broadband. A few tablets, smart phones and computers can prevent you from achieving consistently fast Internet speeds, but according to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), that’s about to change. At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, [...] Read more »
Google’s high-speed Internet services gained a lot of attention in 2012 thanks new Fiber networks in Kansas City, Missouri. However, the company hasn’t forgotten about its hometown. In 2013, the company will expand its role as an ISP, starting with a new Wi-Fi network surrounding Google’s headquarters in New York City. The network is the [...] Read more »
Google’s Fiber program is certainly ambitious. The program seeks to drastically increase high-speed Internet access across the United States, giving homes and small businesses unprecedented access. Google Fiber is about 100 times faster than standard broadband connection technologies and is available in a number of Midwestern markets. The company’s ventures in Kansas City, Missouri had [...] Read more »
Comcast’s Internet Essentials program, a low-cost Internet subscription option available to low-income households, failed to get far off the ground over the last year. The company claims that many low-income households fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the Internet and refused to take advantage of the service, which offers high-speed Internet access for only $9.95 per [...] Read more »
Andrew Blum believes that wired people should know something about the wires that run their lives. Most of us use the Internet every day, and we interact with some people electronically more than we interact with them in real life. Despite the undeniably enormous role that the Internet has played in human communication over the [...] Read more »
Cable giants Comcast, Cablevision Systems, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks have announced plans to double the current number of free Wi-Fi hotspots available to the companies’ broadband Internet subscribers. In May, the four providers began sharing their combined 50,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in public spaces. “We really look at [the public Wi-Fi hotspots] as [...] Read more »
Google gained a lot of attention in late July when it launched Google Fiber, an optical network project that aims to bring ultra-fast Internet to select markets. Now, the company has its first 180 qualified communities from a pool of 202 applicants. The network works by organizing subscribers into small “fiberhoods,” miniature networks with high [...] Read more »
The FCC has launched a new program through its Measuring Broadband America initiative that will monitor and measure mobile broadband speeds. Read more »
Verizon is the first provider to offer a home broadband LTE service. Customers who sign up for HomeFusion get access to Verizon's LTE network for four wired and up to 20 wireless devices. Read more »
Three out of four colleges experience bandwidth strains as a result of students’ gradually increasing mobile device Internet usage. Read more »