By Adriana Lee |
Nothing like a little competition to ratchet the broadband envy up a few notches. It’s not enough that Austin, TX, is getting Google Fiber — which alone is turning geeks everywhere green with jealousy (except perhaps Kansas City and Provo) — but soon they’ll also…
By Adriana Lee |
If you’re in a LTE coverage area, you’re probably living the good life. Likely, it’s a metropolitan area with multiple sources of high-speed connectivity — whether home cable/broadband, fiber or 4G cellular service. Many rural users, however, have long suffered through a black hole of…
By Adriana Lee |
Hoping your town or city will join Kansas City and Austin, and become the proud hosts of Google Fiber? Well, I hate being the bearer of bad news, but the chances of that happening are not very good. Not that it doesn’t make sense, at…
By Adriana Lee |
Pack it up, Comcast, TIme Warner and the rest of you broadband cable ISPs — Google Fiber has just put the smackdown on you. When Netflix offers ISP speed rankings, it’s definitely a headturner. As one of the most popular streaming services today — with 1+…
By Todd Haselton |
Wireless Internet and broadband provider ICOA just announced that it has been acquired by Google for $400 million. ICOA describes itself as a company that provides “Wi-Fi to high traffic public locations” and is a “leading vertically integrated, neutral-host broadband wireless Internet network provider.” ICOA…
By Todd Haselton |
Sprint’s 4G LTE network is beginning to take shape: the carrier announced today that, within the “coming months” it will activate the high speed data network in nine new markets. The new areas include: Minneapolis and St. Paul Minn.; Oakland, Fremont and Hayward, CA.; Key…
By Todd Haselton |
Virgin Mobile on Monday introduced a new budget-friendly data plan that costs just $5. It’s perfect if you don’t frequently use mobile broadband and need just a bit of data to get through the day. The new Broadband2Go plan provides 3G connectivity and 200MB of…
By Adriana Lee |
We all want faster Internet. No matter how many promises of blazing speeds our providers give us, it never seems like enough. But did you know that some basic algebra can help give wireless networks a boost and clear those clogged pipes, all without any…
By Maximum PC |
Verizon FiOS customers don’t have much to complain about in the speed department, unfortunately however, not everyone is so fortunate. According to a recent study conducted by video hosting company Wistia, almost one in five US Internet users are unable to reliably stream HD video over their connections.…
By Killian Bell |
After announcing the United Kingdom’s first 4G network this morning, EE, the parent company of Orange and T-Mobile, has unveiled the lineup of mobile devices that will support it. It includes Nokia’s latest Lumia devices — the Lumia 920 and the Lumia 920 — as…
By Killian Bell |
EE, the new name for Everything Everywhere, the parent company of Orange and T-Mobile, has announced the United Kingdom’s first 4G LTE network at a press event in London this morning. The new service will be up and running in 16 cities by Christmas, with London,…
By Killian Bell |
Plusnet, the U.K. home phone and broadband supplier, has announced the introduction of its latest fiberoptic plan that offers download speeds up to 76Mb/s, and upload speeds up to 19.5Mb/s. The package also more than doubles the allowance of the previous “Plusnet Extra Fiber” plan…
By Adriana Lee |
Internet speed freaks, take note: Comcast may be launching a new residential broadband service that could blow your hair back. Word has it, the company is prepping a new 305 Mbps tier for later this year in order to compete directly with Verizon FiOS Quantum,…
By Adriana Lee |
Though broadband Internet speeds in the U.S. can vary from one provider to another, there’s at least one thing that these ISPs have in common — when it comes to speed and value, they just can’t compete with the rest of the world. The New America Foundation…
By Killian Bell |
It’s taken over two years to arrive, but YouView’s TV catch-up service is finally coming to the U.K. later this month. The £299 (approx. $468) set-top box brings together the streaming services from the U.K.’s biggest TV and broadband companies — including the BBC, BT,…
By Mark Hearn |
Google’s patent portfolio has just gained a little weight, as the software/search engine giant has cemented its purchase of more than 50 patents from Magnolia Broadband. There’s no mention of how much green Google ponied up to acquire this wireless catalog of goodies, but the…
By Todd Haselton |
T-Mobile announced on Thursday that it will launch new no contract plans beginning on May 20th. There are four new plans in total, including a 300MB 1-week pass for $15, a 1.5GB 1-month pass for $25, a 3.5GB 1-month pass for $35 and a 5GB…
By Mark Hearn |
Verizon announced on Wednesday that it will be releasing an LTE-based home Internet solution, known as Homefusion Broadband, tomorrow. Powered by Big Red’s LTE network, which is currently available in 230 markets, customers in remote areas with restricted Internet access options may benefit greatly from…
By Adriana Lee |
Stick a fork in it, physical media is done. All hail digital apps! GigaOm’s Om Malik just penned a post stating the obvious. Streaming has replaced music CDs and DVDs, books are increasingly purveyed as e-books, and mailed catalogs and product ads are giving way…
By Sean P. Aune |
As difficult as it may be for some to believe, there are still parts of the United States without DSL, cable or fiber optic Internet service. Verizon now has a solution for those folks. Verizon is introducing a new service called HomeFusion that will allow…
By Maximum PC |
If you’ve cut the cable and switched to streaming services like Netflix or Hulu to fill your Sons of Anarchy viewing needs, you might be in for a nasty shock before long: higher prices. No, Netflix isn’t raising its rates again. It’s your Internet connection itself that…
By Maximum PC |
The supply of AOL free trial CD’s at your local grocery store may have dried up long ago, though believe it or not, the service itself is still going relatively strong. According to the company’s most recent earnings release, AOL still has over 3.5 million subscribers to its dialup…
By Killian Bell |
I’m still rocking a 6Mbps broadband connection in my home town, and while that’s plenty for work, it could be a little better — what with all the online gaming, video streaming and downloading and I do. I’m pleased to hear, then, that BT is…
By Killian Bell |
Orange is a popular mobile phone carrier here in the U.K., and thanks to a revamp of its prices, I’m guessing it’s also going to become a popular home broadband provider. It is now offering the U.K.’s cheapest unlimited home broadband from just £5 (approx.…
