Enlarge / FCC Republican members (L-R) Brendan Carr, Michael O’Rielly, and Chairman Ajit Pai participate in a discussion during the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 23, 2018, in Maryland. reader comments 80 with 55 posters participating Share this story The Republican-majority Federal Communications Commission took another vote against net neutrality rules today in its ..
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Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket launches the Starlink-13 mission on October 18. reader comments 173 with 103 posters participating Share this story A Falcon 9 rocket ascended into the blue skies above Florida on Sunday morning, and much of the space world barely took notice. Sure, it was fairly early on a Sunday, and ..
reader comments 45 with 35 posters participating Share this story The US House of Representatives yesterday approved $100 billion worth of broadband funding as part of a $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill. The broadband portion is modeled on the Democrats’ “universal fiber” plan we wrote about last week. The plan includes $80 billion in fiscal year ..
reader comments 71 with 50 posters participating Share this story Fig. 1: Dividing average PS4 game file sizes by average broadband speeds shows decreasing download times in recent years. Ars Technica Fig. 2: In the middle of the PS3 era, game file sizes started growing faster than broadband speeds for a while. Ars Technica Fig. ..
Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai speaking at a press conference on October 1, 2018, in Washington, DC. reader comments 80 with 64 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission on Friday issued its annual broadband deployment report, finding for the third straight year that broadband is “being deployed to all Americans in ..
reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating Share this story AT&T falsely reported to the Federal Communications Commission that it offers broadband in nearly 3,600 census blocks spread across parts of 20 states. AT&T disclosed the error to the FCC in a filing a week ago. The filing provides “a list of census blocks AT&T ..
Enlarge / A student studying on his laptop with two friends after classes were cancelled. Phillipe Francois | Getty Images reader comments 61 with 47 posters participating Share this story Like many students around the world, Nora Medina is adapting to online learning. But Medina, a high school senior in Quincy, Washington, who also takes ..
reader comments 74 with 52 posters participating Share this story After eight and a half years working full-time for Ars Technica, it’s time for me to write something totally unlike anything that previously appeared under my name: a sales pitch. I’m a journalist for good reason, as I’m too gruff and unfriendly to be in ..
Enlarge / A Frontier Communications van. reader comments 79 with 67 posters participating Share this story As Frontier Communications moves closer to an expected bankruptcy filing, the ISP told investors that its troubles stem largely from its failure to invest properly in upgrading DSL to fiber broadband. The presentation for investors, which is included in ..
Getty Images | imaginima reader comments 48 with 40 posters participating Share this story Home-Internet download speeds have fallen during the COVID-19 pandemic in dozens of the biggest US cities as millions of Americans stay home due to school and business closures. However, typical download speeds remain high enough to support normal broadband-usage patterns, with ..