Articles - Broadband
The State of Rural Broadband
Is it possible that rural broadband penetration actually is pretty close to the penetration of Internet users? In other words, is it possible that use of broadband in rural areas now is close to 100 percent of Internet users? New data from comScore...
Jobs, the Economy and Broadband - What's the Mystery?
Clearly rising unemployment is a major issue in the U.S. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is attempting to address the problem and hoping that massive spending will result in jobs. Though creating jobs for the sake of jobs is not a long-t...
The Who, How and Where of BYOF
The New America Foundation, “a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States” has just released a working paper entitled &ldquo...
Painfully Slow Broadband Growth
The U.S. broadband access market grew at painfully slow rates, says Yankee Group analyst Vince Vittore. Between the second quarter of 2006 and the first quarter of 2008, AT&T was averaging net broadband additions of 509,000 per quarter. In the second quar...
2Q Market Shifts?
As rough a second quarter as AT&T, Verizon and Qwest had on the voice line and digital subscriber line front, Verizon, AT&T and DirecTV did best in the video subscriber area. If the second quarter were the Olympics, cable operators took the gold in th...
Broadband Penetration Leveling
Some 55 percent of adult Americans now have broadband internet connections at home, up from 47 percent who had high-speed access at home last year, say researchers at the Pew Internet & American Life Project. But researchers at the Gartner Group now pre...
U.S. Broadband Penetration Higher than EC
Broadband penetration now has reached 20 percent of the population in January 2008, a threefold increase since 2004, according to a report prepared for the Commission of the European Communities. Some of you should be surprised, if not shocked, at the...
Will ISPs Choose Blunt Weapon?
As Comcast starts to experiment with ways to balance quality of service on its access networks at times of peak congestion, it will permit lighter users to enjoy peer-to-peer applications without restrictions, but will have to develop some means for charg...
A Broadband Access Problem? The Facts Say Otherwise
The release of a National Telecommunications and Information Administration report on the state of broadband deployment predictably was met with catcalls from the usual quarters, namely those who insist there is a “broadband access” problem of...
FCC Investigates Comcast Traffic Shaping
In response to several petitions filed last year, the Federal Communications Commission is taking a look at whether certain broadband traffic management techniques Comcast uses to regulate peer-to-peer traffic on its network during times of peak use are i...
