- Information, please
The courts and, probably, Congress are the next stops for a controversial FCC decision last week shielding cable broadband services from Internet-access obligations and nearly all local regulation. After conducting an 18-month inquiry, the FCC declared that local governments cannot force cable companies to carry competing ISPs, nor will the ......
- High speed broadband: is a network in your future?
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The realities of today's telecommunications industry are forcing many communities to evaluate the need to build their own high-bandwidth network. While cable companies and telecommunications companies continue to consolidate and severely cutback capital spending, competitive carriers are also facing hurdles in obtaining financing to continue deployment of their fiber networks....
- US broadband users interested in extra services shows
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INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Broadband software firm BroadJump has completed research that indicates that US broadband subscribers are interested in paying for extra broadband services. According to the results 20% of DSL subscribers were interested in long distance and wireless telephony services but had not been offered them ......
- Power Lines: No 'Third Front' Yet
Could electric power lines become the next big thing in broadband? Some utilities and federal regulators think so, but cable companies and other high-speed Internet providers doubt power lines will upend the broadband industry's competitive balance. For years, electric utilities have been experimenting with ways to transmit data signals via ......
- AT&T Pushing Data to the Max
AT&T Inc. is making what might be its strongest challenge yet to broadband cable competitors, with a new initiative using fixed wireless and satellite technologies that could bring high-speed Internet service to 100% of the customers in its sprawling 13-state territory. As outlined by chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre in ......
- Cable Expects Favorable Data Order
Cable lobbyists are all but certain that the Federal Communications Commission is no more than a month or two away from handing the industry a victory over proponents of mandatory access to cable's high-speed Internet platform. But the win could lead to legal challenges and numerous skirmishes with local regulators....
- No Slowdown for High-Speed Internet
Despite hitting the 50% penetration benchmark that many observers believed would signify the end of the exponential growth of broadband Internet services from cable and telephone companies, the product is experiencing some of the most robust acceleration in its brief history. According to Sanford Bernstein & Co. cable analyst Craig ......