Study: US among world's leaders in broadband use
U.S. residents rank among the world's top in broadband use per month, meaning the broadband picture in the country isn't as bad as some critics might make it, a telecom trade group said Wednesday.
U.S. residents rank among the world's top in broadband use per month, meaning the broadband picture in the country isn't as bad as some critics might make it, a telecom trade group said Wednesday.
The number of households with broadband Internet is steadily increasing, according to the latest statistics released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The Federal Government has committed another $23.8 million to the Australian Broadband Guarantee to deliver services while the NBN is on its way.
Telstra has unveiled a major company restructure including two new product divisions and a swathe of staff appointments.
The National Party’s deputy senate leader, Fiona Nash, and Queensland senator, Barnaby Joyce, have spoken in favour of Telstra’s structural separation despite Liberal party opposition to the split.
Telstra has announced new broadband plans with higher data caps and faster speeds for the same price.
Telstra has signed on the NSW Department of Education (DET) as its latest major fibre optic customer in a deal worth $280 million.
The announcement at the beginning of the month that the government was postponing a Euros 800 million (US$1.2 billion) investment in modernizing Italy's broadband infrastructure has provoked indignation among government critics and embarrassment among ministers.
Two U.S. agencies responsible for distributing US$7.2 billion in broadband deployment grants by the end of 2010 have streamlined the process by cutting one of three rounds of funding.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled US$3.4 billion in grants to update the nation's electrical grid, but the benefits could reach to the broadband sector as well, one community broadband adviser said.
More than three quarters of mobile broadband users in the UK are not satisfied with the speeds provided by their service providers, says <a href="http://www.thinkbroadband.com">Thinkbroadband.com</a>.
When the first LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks and devices are launched next year, users can expect to see a download speed of about 20Mbps, according to Motorola and ZTE.
Research firm Gartner is projecting that 20% of households worldwide will be connected to the Internet through a broadband connection by year-end.
Perth is set to receive the fastest wireless broadband network in Australia by early 2010.
Aggressive efforts to cut off illegal file sharers from the internet, originally rejected in the government's Digital Britain report, are back on with a new plan which effectively takes communications regulator Ofcom out of the loop as an online anti-piracy enforcer.