In this remote snow-swept college town rejuvenated in parts by Internet commerce, President Obama on Thursday outlined a plan to create similar economic stories through the expansion of super-fast wireless Internet connections. Speaking at Northern Michigan University, Obama unveiled an ambitious blueprint to use $18 billion in federal funds to get 98 percent of the … Continue reading
KT Corp. and Intel said Thursday they would unveil laptops and netbooks on Friday which could connect to the wireless broadband Internet (WiBro) service through an embedded chipset. KT also said it will additionally begin the high-speed WiBro service in the country’s five major cities Busan, Daegu, Gwangju, Daejeon and Ulsan and express highways beginning October in … Continue reading
Partisan politics is being blamed for killing off US legislation to protect the “net neutrality” that sees all web traffic treated equally. Democrat Henry Waxman said he failed to garner the necessary Republican support for his net neutrality bill. The bill aimed to stop ISPs from acting as online gatekeepers controlling the content flowing through their … Continue reading
Chinese telecommunications solutions firm, Huawei, has used SuperMIMO technology and “four twisted pairs” (i.e. technically four phone lines bonded together; 175Mbps each) to boost the maximum broadband download speed of DSL technology to a staggering700Mbps (Megabits per second) over 400 meters! That’s quite a jump above BT’s current UK best of 40Mbps via FTTC, which … Continue reading
It’s not quite the law of the land just yet, but the European Commission has just laid out some far-reaching new broadband rules that, if implemented, could have some wide ranging implications. Some of the basic rules were first announced earlier this year in the so-called Digital Agenda, including a mandate for basic broadband access across … Continue reading
BT Total broadband customers who take a broadband & calls package or broadband, calls & TV bundle will get free upgrade to the ISP’s fibre based, 40Mbps Infinity broadband plan, when the superfast service reaches their area, the ISP has announced. This means BT bundle customers need not pay any extra monthly cost to access faster … Continue reading
