reader comments 55 with 38 posters participating Share this story The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union is lobbying state governments to regulate Internet service providers as utilities. The CWA, which represents more than 150,000 workers at AT&T and over 30,000 at Verizon, announced on Monday a “multi-state effort to pass state legislation that would ..
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Enlarge / Cable lobbyist Michael Powell speaks at a conference in September 2015. Getty Images | Larry Busacca reader comments 141 with 108 posters participating Share this story President Biden’s plan to expand broadband access and lower prices is, predictably, facing bitter opposition from cable companies that want to maintain the status quo. NCTA–The Internet ..
Enlarge / President Joe Biden speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on Monday, March 29, 2021. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 211 with 129 posters participating Share this story President Biden’s plan to connect all Americans with high-speed broadband includes proposals to boost competition, build more publicly owned networks, lower ..
Getty Images | McCaig reader comments 108 with 77 posters participating Share this story Internet service providers could be required to release “broadband nutrition labels” with detailed information about prices, speeds, and data caps under legislation introduced by US Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.). Craig’s “Broadband Consumer Transparency Act” would bring back expanded transparency requirements that ..
Enlarge / Illustration of fiber-optic cables. reader comments 133 with 102 posters participating Share this story Four US senators called on the Biden administration Thursday to establish a “21st century definition of high-speed broadband” of 100Mbps both upstream and downstream. This would be a big upgrade over the Federal Communications Commission broadband standard of 25Mbps ..
La Commissione Ue ha avviato una consultazione pubblica per aggiornare la direttiva sulla Riduzione dei costi per le reti Broadband. La direttiva, emanata nel 2015, contiene le modalità in cui le autorità locali possono appoggiare la costruzione più rapida di reti a banda larga. Ma dopo 5 anni c’è bisogno di un upgrade, vista l’accelerazione ..
Enlarge / A OneWeb receiver. reader comments 83 with 58 posters participating Share this story The UK has entered the increasingly competitive race to become a global satellite Internet provider after taking control of failed space startup OneWeb with Indian billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal. The low-Earth-orbit-satellite operator emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday ..
Data cap cash. reader comments 101 with 81 posters participating Share this story The number of broadband “power users”—people who use 1TB or more per month—has doubled over the past year, ensuring that ISPs will be able to make more money from data caps. In Q3 2020, 8.8 percent of broadband subscribers used at least ..
Getty Images | Synergee reader comments 180 with 105 posters participating Share this story Millions of Americans live in broadband deserts with no access to anything resembling modern Internet service. But few people have it as bad as those who must rely on AT&T’s ancient DSL network. Kathie McNamee of Raymond, Mississippi is one of ..
reader comments 116 with 83 posters participating Share this story After years of building political pressure for antitrust scrutiny of major tech companies, this month Congress and the US government delivered. The House Antitrust Subcommittee released a report accusing Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook of monopolistic behavior. The Department of Justice filed a complaint against ..