10-year goal of connecting 100 million US households to affordable 100-megabits-per-second Internet service
US communications regulators on Monday began unveiling details of a plan designed to vault the United States into the ranks of world leaders in high-speed Internet access over the next decade.
Trials Hyperbaric billing engine as a white-label solution
The Australian market is ripe for an influx of non-traditional providers of consumer telco services, according to AAPT. Chief operating officer, David Yuile, said the local market was likely to see a UK-style evolution in which formerly non-traditional players, such as grocery retailer [[xref: http://www.tesco.com/tescotalk|Tesco|TescoTalk]], entered the market with their own consumer telephony services.
Will gain access to an additional 2.5Gbps bandwidth capacity on the international fibre service
Australian ISP Internode today announced a newly signed agreement with international bandwidth wholesaler, Southern Cross Cable Network. The new agreement will provide an additional 2.5 gigabits per second (Gbps) capacity on Southern Cross' international fibre.
Precedes expected announcement around acquisition of Netspace
iiNet Ltd shares have gone into a trading halt as Australia's third biggest internet service provider prepares a response to a newspaper report saying the company is to buy a rival.
Filter will block legitimate information, create a false sense of security
The mandatory Internet filtering scheme could sway votes against the Rudd Government when the IT industry hits the polling booths at the Federal election.
The RUS has now awarded nearly $900 million in broadband grants and loans
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.
New powerline products suited for high speeds in big homes, according to Netgear
Netgear has introduced products for powerline-based home networking at up to 500M bps (bits per second).
Part of space-project funding under Australian Space Research Program
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).
Increasing usage has led to decrease in prices with over half of fixed broadband subscribers in China.
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.
VividWireless and Unwired operations to be consolidated under one CEO
Unwired CEO David Spence has stepped down from his responsibilities after six years at the helm of the ISP.
Vocational Education Broadband Network will offer NBN-like speeds to schools and TAFEs
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).
The FCC's chairman hinted at a few components of the agency's National Broadband Plan
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.
The telco will remain an enabler, not content provider. However, 24/7 unlimited broadband may be the next battleground
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.
The reason behind Google's experiment to build ultra high-speed broadband networks is a mystery. But here are 5 possibilities
Google on Wednesday announced that it wants to "build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States." Google's proposed networks would service anywhere from 50,000 to 500,000 people with commercial broadband Internet service reaching speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second.
Speeds to dwarf Australia's NBN, but other networks down under have already matched this goal
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.
