The U.S. Rural Utilities Service (RUS) on Thursday announced US$254.6 million in funding for 22 broadband deployment projects in 18 states across the U.S. as it works to wrap up a first round of broadband funding made available in a huge economic stimulus package passed by Congress early last year.
The mandatory Internet filtering scheme could sway votes against the Rudd Government when the IT industry hits the polling booths at the Federal election.
Recession has affected economic growth but worldwide people are increasingly using information and communication technology (ICT) services, such as mobile phones and the Internet, according to a newly released report by international telecommunication union.
Netgear has introduced products for powerline-based home networking at up to 500M bps (bits per second).
A project to enable satellite-based broadband communications technology for use in the Antarctic is one of four projects to win the first round of $10 million in funding under the Australian Space Research Program (ASRP).
Unwired CEO David Spence has stepped down from his responsibilities after six years at the helm of the ISP.
The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) is to spend up to $70 million over the next three years implementing the Vocational Education Broadband Network (VEN).
U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski on Tuesday laid out some details, including an ambitious "100 Squared" initiative, that will be part of the agency's National Broadband Plan that it will send to Congress in March.
AAPT has flagged it will keep connectivity rather than content at the core of its business, despite launching 24/7 unlimited ADSL2+ broadband onto the market.
Google will launch several experimental 'ultra high-speed' broadband networks across the United States as part of efforts to encourage authorities to look at 'new and creative ways' to progress the country's National Broadband Plan.
Telecom (ASX:TEL) is to stake its claim to be the leading provider of Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) for New Zealand.
Twitter addicts had to entertain themselves with something other than the social network and microblogging site for more than an hour Wednesday morning.
Regional Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will be made more accountable for delivering advertised broadband speeds following a Federal Government test of consumer Internet access.
Global Internet access has exploded over the last decade from about 350 million to 1.6 billion, according to new research. More than a third of Internet users worldwide will connect via broadband, according to a BuddeComm report. About 500 million people will be on fixed-line technologies by year’s end. Almost two-thirds of users will subscribe to DSL connections, about 20 per cent via cable modem and only 10 to 15 per cent will use fibre.
U.S. broadband policy in recent months has been driven by a widely held assumption that the availability of broadband in an area will help improve the economy. A study released Wednesday puts some scholarship behind that assumption, with the author saying that broadband indeed has economic benefits.