Enlarge / Artist’s illustration of Amazon’s Kuiper satellite processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. reader comments 79 with Within a few years, Amazon hopes to be building and launching up to 80 satellites per month to populate the company’s Kuiper constellation, a $10 billion network that is similar to fleets already operated by SpaceX ..
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Enlarge / This artist’s illustration of the ViaSat-3 Americas satellites shows the spacecraft as it would appear with its large reflector antenna fully deployed. reader comments 97 with A new Viasat communications satellite launched in April has been crippled by a problem when unfurling its huge mesh antenna. The problem jeopardizes Viasat’s much-needed refresh to ..
Getty Images | Smith Collection/Gado reader comments 206 with Comcast is not happy about new federal rules that will require it to provide broadband customers with labels displaying exact prices and other information about Internet service plans. Enlarge / Broadband label that ISPs will be required to display to consumers at the point of sale. ..
Getty Images | Matt Anderson Photography reader comments 59 with 0 posters participating Share this story Nevada’s US senators say the Federal Communications Commission’s new, more detailed broadband maps have tens of thousands of mistakes in their state alone. “Nevada’s Office of Science, Innovation, & Technology (OSIT) has found over 20,000 purported broadband-serviceable locations on ..
Getty Images | Smith Collection/Gado reader comments 44 with 0 posters participating Share this story Internet service provider horror stories have been a longtime staple at Ars Technica, and over the past 12 months we detailed some of the most horrific broadband customer experiences we’ve ever heard of. Comcast, the largest home Internet provider in ..
Getty Images | Matt Anderson Photography reader comments 84 with 63 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission has collected precise broadband availability information from Internet service providers for the first time and aims to release a first draft of a new broadband map in November, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel wrote Friday. The ..
reader comments 53 with 41 posters participating Share this story Several US government agencies are having a busy week for doling out broadband deployment funding to ISPs and state governments. Today, the FCC announced $791.6 million for six broadband providers, covering network expansions to over 350,000 homes and businesses in 19 states. The ISPs will ..
Getty Images | Alicia Llop reader comments 75 with 60 posters participating Share this story Fifty-four members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are protesting what they call a “radical proposal” to require payments from online service providers to Internet service providers. Noting that Europe’s 2015 “Open Internet Regulation ensures that citizens are free to use ..
Getty Images | Alan Schein reader comments 55 with 40 posters participating Share this story The US Treasury Department has started approving broadband grants to states from a $10 billion fund created to expand access to Internet service and other digital connectivity tools. The Treasury Department’s announcement on Tuesday said the first approved projects would ..
reader comments 120 with 82 posters participating Share this story Senate Republicans are crying foul over a Biden administration plan to fund broadband deployment in regions that are already served with 25Mbps download and 3Mbps upload speeds. The US Treasury Department’s recently issued final rule for distributing American Rescue Plan money eliminated an interim requirement ..