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Google Chooses Kansas City for Ultra-High-Speed Internet [VIDEO]

Cuba to Get High-Speed Internet, Thanks to Venezuela

One of the world's most unplugged countries is about to get high-speed Internet, courtesy of an old friend. A specialized ship began laying fiber-optic cable under the Caribbean Sea from Venezuela toward Cuba this past weekend, launching a $70 million project to connect the communist island nation with better phone and...

FCC Net Neutrality Ruling: What Does It Mean for You?

Are some versions of the Internet more equal than others? The Federal Communications Commission passed its first-ever regulation of the Internet today, in a net neutrality compromise that saw its 3-2 vote split sharply along party lines. The full text of the new regulations will not be published until later this week,...

Opinion: Net Neutrality, RIP

(Aug. 12) -- Google and Verizon made big headlines when they announced they were teaming up to offer a framework for regulating broadband networks. On one hand, this isn't that big a deal since it's not binding and doesn't have the force of law behind it. On the other, it's a huge deal since it marks the end of the...

Google's High-Speed Internet Deadline Arrives

(March 25) -- Think of it as a technology lottery. Google has dangled a tantalizing offer in front of America's cities and towns. Sometime this year, the search engine giant will select a U.S. community where it will, free of charge, lay a new fiber broadband network that will bring Internet speeds 100 times faster than...

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02/09/12 Alcatel-Lucent and P&TLuxembourg to accelerate the... Source: Alcatel - USA P&TLuxembourg , the leading telecommunications service provider in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has announced plans to launch ultra-fast broadband access in the country using advanced fiber-optic technology from Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU).
02/08/12 Entanet FTTP Broadband Fuels Channels Chances For... Source: TMCnet P Telford, -- Leading wholesale voice and data communications provider, Entanet, has expanded its broadband portfolio even further with the introduction of FTTP (Fibre-to-the-Premise) packages that enable resellers to serve business and residential customers with upload and download speeds of up to 30Mbps and 110Mbps respectively.
02/06/12 Exetel simplifies NBN plans Source: iTNews Australia Internet service provider Exetel has halved the number of residential plans it will offer users in National Broadband Network mainland trial sites and cut prices by between $5 and $30 a month.
02/06/12 Update: Phone Service Restored To Greater San Luis... Source: ABC - KRDO 13 - Colorado Springs CO Repair crews have restored a phone outage that affected much of Southern Colorado Monday.
02/06/12 Calix Land 12 More Stimulus Deals Source: Unstrung Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX ) today announced that an additional 12 communications service providers have selected the Calix Unified Access portfolio to support approximately $153 million of Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) Stimulus projects across the United States, of which only a portion of this value is access equipment.

Background on broadband

The term broadband refers to a telecommunications signal or device of greater bandwidth, in some sense, than another standard or usual signal or device (and the broader the band, the greater the capacity for traffic).

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