Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) has always said, "Broadband, broadband, broadband," but it's never happened.
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Broadband Investment: Liberty used cash on hand to invest $21000 billion in Liberty Broadband Corporation (Broadband) for a 211% ownership position in Broadband in May 21500.
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Higher broadband prices, lower broadband speeds, fewer service plan choices, and less competition in the broadband marketplace.
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BUT OUR BROADBAND, WE HAD THE BEST BROADBAND IN EIGHT YEARS.
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Streaming over mobile, mobile broadband or home broadband will also be unmetered.
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This lack of broadband competition has repercussions that extend well beyond broadband.
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They have not decreased investment in broadband, according to broadband companies themselves.
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And with many telcos giving up on broadband expansion, this is occurring just as cable broadband is enjoying a greater broadband monopoly than ever before.
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They promised to give rural Americans robust 5G broadband and enhanced home broadband.
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The usual justification for municipal broadband is that having too few broadband providers chokes off opportunities for local businesses and individuals who depend on reliable broadband access.
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As America realizes broadband is an essential utility, everything from terrible U.S. broadband maps to the flimsy justification for broadband usage caps are being exposed as fantasy.
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Broadband: By 2022, the global average speed of broadband internet will be 75.4 Mbps.
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First, the Democrats should address the issue of broadband affordability — not just broadband access.
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Funding broadband expansion has widespread support among lawmakers and the tech and broadband industries.
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For the first time, the Report places essential information about mobile wireless, video, audio, wireline broadband, voice telephony, satellite, broadband deployment, and international broadband all in one place.
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Enhanced Broadband Infrastructure: This transaction will provide the combined company with increased opportunity to invest in its broadband infrastructure and enhance broadband speed for small businesses and consumers.
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The tool grew out of Pew's Broadband Research Initiative, which researches policy issues like the economic impact of broadband access and expanding broadband in rural and low-income communities.
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And broadband is at the center of that growth with broadband revenues growing at 10%.
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Gigabit broadband is 40 times faster than the 25mbps speeds required to be considered broadband.
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Broadband Facts is an attempt to clarify what you're getting when you pay for broadband.
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Also, rival investments in broadband infrastructure by power firm Enel are undermining TIM's broadband drive.
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The Community Broadband Act would preempt states from passing laws that prohibit municipal broadband networks.
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This failure to map broadband availability accurately was painfully mirrored by the FCC's broadband availability map.
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In addition, Charter was among the highest rated broadband providers in the 2016 FCC Broadband Report.
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The FCC is currently evaluating whether wireless broadband is sufficient to meet Americans' everyday broadband needs.
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Pew's State Broadband Policy Explorer isn't the only tool that lets you find state broadband policy.
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In simple terms, broadband internet access service providers want the Obama broadband order to be reconsidered.
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The substantial FCC playbook includes 10 broadband progress reports and two rural broadband reports since 1999.
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Broadband: The National Broadband Plan was one of the signature tech initiatives of the Obama presidency.
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But because the FCC (and its $250 million broadband map) doesn't share broadband pricing data with the public, the high cost of US broadband is often left out of the conversation entirely.
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CEO Roberts said that offering mobile with broadband has improved retention of broadband customers who buy both.
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Today, President Obama announced a new broadband initiative called ConnectALL, aimed at providing broadband to underserved areas.
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Dish's broadband subscriber base was about 628,000 in the quarter after it added 5,000 net broadband subscribers.
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Kentucky is the 27th most connected state in terms of broadband according to broadband tracking firm Broadbandnow.
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Broadband privacy Wheeler's new privacy rules for broadband providers were another high-profile item from his tenure.
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PAI LAYS OUT BROADBAND AGENDA: Republican FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai laid out an agenda for expanding broadband.
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Expand broadband to rural communities and close the digital divide with, among other things, affordable broadband programs.
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By reclassifying broadband as an information service, the Commission placed broadband outside of its Title II jurisdiction.
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They say that FCC regulation of broadband providers has inhibited investment in broadband infrastructure, adversely harming consumers.
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Broadband subscription connections that we sell, mobile, broadband, they're increasing in terms of the rate of growth.
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One of the lone bright spots for broadband providers was Chattanooga's EPB, a city-owned and utility operated broadband provider we profiled several years back as an example of community broadband done well.
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Comcast's strong broadband gains underscore the company's successful pivot to broadband, providing expanding margins and lower capital intensity.
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A low-income consumer broadband credit offers low-income households that subscribe to broadband services a modest refund.
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Intending to remove the hassle out of a new broadband deal, Now Broadband make a few enticing promises.
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According to the 28503 Broadband Progress Report, West Virginia is ranked 22019th in the nation for broadband accessibility.
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Some municipal governments concerned that their residents do not have sufficient access to broadband have launched their own broadband services, only to find that government-run broadband utilities lead to more problems than they solve.
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The joint venture "could reduce the intensity of competition" in the broadband and ultrafast broadband sectors, the statement said.
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Specifically, it can do this by encouraging greater network investment by broadband providers and allocating broadband capacity more efficiently.
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According to the FCC's Broadband Availability in America report, nearly 28503 percent of rural Alaskans don't have broadband access.
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Republican and Democratic members of the bipartisan Senate Broadband Caucus have acknowledged the importance of investing in broadband infrastructure.
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Warren's broadband plan would grant $85 billion in federal money to subsidize building out broadband networks in rural communities.
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According to the FCC's most recent Broadband Deployment Report, 21.3 million rural Americans still lack adequate access to broadband.
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The FCC's $350 million broadband map showcases how this results in a comical overstating of broadband speed and availability.
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This gives free reign to broadband providers to block or throttle your broadband service as long as they inform you.
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And an undetermined amount of broadband speed improvements were courtesy of community broadband deployments the Pai FCC has actively opposed.
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Unsurprisingly, the broadband industry has fiercely resisted even beginning the process to update the FCC's phone privacy rules for broadband.
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The pattern repeats elsewhere as well, rural and urban, with similar deltas between reported broadband availability and observed broadband activity.
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Traditional satellite broadband is historically terrible, and is usually seen as the last resort for those lacking better broadband options.
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Then in 2011, Tobak cofounded Hyperoptic, the UK's largest residential gigabit broadband provider, and the region's first fibre broadband provider.
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" What Wheeler steadfastly refuses to understand is that this case was not about "broadband statutes" or "communities wanting better broadband.
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Georgia's Broadband Deployment Initiative brings together five state agencies, ISPs and communities throughout the state to build new broadband infrastructure.
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Broadband subsidies Pai was quick to take on the FCC's Lifeline program, which provides broadband subsidies to low-income households.
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In the Supreme Court's 2005 broadband ruling, for example, Chevron deference allowed the Bush administration to deregulate the broadband market.
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But for years, both industry and government broadband availability maps have been criticized for massively overstating real world broadband availability.
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They argue that broadband companies' analysis of investment numbers are not comprehensive enough and that other numbers show broadband growth.
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For years, proponents of municipal broadband have argued that government can provide broadband faster and cheaper than the private sector.
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Broadband companies have fought the FCC's action, pointing to statistics they say illustrate decreased investment in broadband infrastructure, harming consumers.
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TT's broadband subscribers and average revenue per user (ARPU) continue to grow, helped by growing demand for high-speed broadband.
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Clinton has laid out detailed proposals on issues ranging from net neutrality to expanding broadband access to increasing broadband competition.
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Recent Investment: Liberty used cash on hand to invest $2.4 billion in Liberty Broadband Corporation (Broadband) for a 24% ownership position in Broadband in May 2016, leaving Liberty with $492 million of cash at June 30, 2016.
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Congress is considering the Broadband Conduit Deployment Act of 2017 to implement a "dig once" policy to encourage installing broadband conduits during the construction of highway projects, which would reduce costs for broadband providers in unserved areas.
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More than 750 towns and cities have built their own broadband networks, and a growing number of states have not only signed off on major broadband improvement efforts, but have passed new broadband privacy and net neutrality rules.
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Though Pew's survey found some positive results for municipal broadband, it found less support for broadband subsidies for low-income homes.
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Rolling back Title II protections for broadband doesn't restore the internet to some glorious past in which broadband providers operated unfettered.
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Broadband is a catch-all term for high speed internet access, but there are many different kinds of broadband internet connections.
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The plan does reference rural broadband, as part of a larger "rural infrastructure program," but municipal broadband is not explicitly mentioned.
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But the goal of Pew's State Broadband Policy Explorer is to provide a one-stop shop for state-level broadband research.
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The most recent rural broadband report was released on June 12, 2011, and the last broadband report was issued on Jan.
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Klobuchar, a member of the Senate Broadband Caucus, has made expanding access to broadband a central message of her 85033 campaign.
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The approach to mapping broadband access will help create more "precise broadband service availability maps," Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said.
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How it works: The FCC currently requires fixed broadband service providers — not wireless providers — to report broadband availability by census block.
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Dana Floberg recently testified before Congress about America's terrible broadband maps and broadband availability on behalf of consumer group Free Press.
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At least ten percent of Americans (85033 million people) lack adequate broadband access, according to the FCC's 2016 Broadband Progress Report.
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The new broadband benefit will provide $9.25 a month for broadband and voice services to Americans who already receive federal assistance.
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Any serious broadband infrastructure plan must include this foundational investment because of an unfortunate reality – modern broadband networks are very expensive.
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Including the deployment of broadband networks in any infrastructure legislation, including broadband funding for rural or otherwise hard-to-serve areas.
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Breathless claims about unshackling broadband services from unnecessary regulation, are only about ensuring that broadband providers, have the keys to the internet.
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As a result, you'll be left with lousy broadband, and incumbent broadband providers will be free of any obligation to do better.
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The latter can be attributed to many factors – the near-ubiquity of mobile devices and increases in broadband speeds and mobile broadband.
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Under Singapore's national broadband network framework, telecom service providers can lease wholesale fibre capacity to provide fibre broadband services to end-users.
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MainOne, a broadband infrastructure provider, is one of the operators looking to increase connectivity and access to broadband in Nigeria and beyond.
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FCC data suggests about 25 million Americans lack access to broadband, a number that's likely worse thanks to our terrible broadband maps.
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U.S. consumers pay some of the highest rates for broadband in the developed world, and many simply can't afford a broadband connection.
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Carriers have historically lobbied against better broadband mapping, worried that better public data would only highlight America's significant broadband and competition shortcomings.
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Broadband Market: Kazakhstan's broadband market was fully restored in revenue terms in 21500 after a sharp decline by 21000% yoy in 212000.
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This gives free reign to broadband providers to block or throttle your broadband service as long as they inform you of it.
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To ensure that high-speed broadband is available for all rural Americans, regardless of state, we need a national rural broadband plan.
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We are losing because the agencies in charge of rural broadband do not even know who has broadband and who does not.
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TM benefits from benign competition in its near monopolistic fixed-broadband market, but its broadband EBITDA margins of around 30% are likely to narrow further due to cost pressure from its new mobile business and the risk of broadband tariff cuts.
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In opposing the motion to raise the definition of broadband to 25 megabits down and 3 up, Pai noted that in another FCC-approved program, rural "broadband" deployments wouldn't meet the very definition of broadband they were attempting to set.
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We're going to see the same thing with broadband, where people aren't going to order cable, call up the cable company, order broadband.
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The way I would think about broadband is you're going to have broadband regardless if you had an OTT streaming service or not.
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Such trust in market forces to work in a broadband market where 51 percent of Americans only have one choice of broadband provider!
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In its latest Measuring Broadband America Report, the FCC found that median broadband speeds across the U.S. increased 22% over the last year.
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While the broadband industry likes to pretend the problem doesn't exist, there remains countless corners of America where broadband still isn't widely available.
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The FCC has authority to set broadband privacy rules after it reclassified broadband providers last year as part of new net neutrality regulations.
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Fed up by a lack of fast, affordable broadband, hundreds of US towns and cities have turned to building their own broadband networks.
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Network operator Vodafone Plc has struck a deal with Britain's biggest broadband provider BT Group Plc to provide broadband in three British cities.
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Growing Broadband and Media: The decline in KT's traditional fixed-line telephony service is increasingly offset by its growing broadband and media businesses.
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The common refrain is that municipal broadband is a bad deal for taxpayers, which is always pinned on several failed municipal broadband networks.
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For example, if one business in an area has broadband service, then the entire area is typically considered to have broadband service available.
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Many more Americans can't afford a broadband connection thanks to limited U.S. broadband competition and the politicians lobbied to keep it that way.
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Net neutrality has harmed broadband investmentIn yesterday's speech, Pai repeatedly claimed that net neutrality has reduced investment in broadband infrastructure, citing a study by the Free State Foundation that claimed the 230 net neutrality order has cost $250 billion in broadband investment.
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It can also help with the emergence of entirely new broadband alternatives like white space broadband, which hopes to leverage the vacated TV channels from classic, broadcast antenna TV created by the shift to digital television to bring broadband to underserved areas.
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Even if only some significant proportion of municipal broadband subscribers switch to satellite or wireless broadband, that could threaten the already unstable financial viability of municipal broadband agencies, leaving local or state governments – and ultimately taxpayers – on the hook for future losses.
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A lack of real broadband competition has resulted in another major obstacle for the future of game streaming: broadband usage caps and overage fees.
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We have sourced the very best exclusive, broadband, fibre, and TV with broadband deals so that you can start the year with a saving.
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Under the plan, broadband providers will face a legal requirement to provide high-speed broadband to anyone requesting it, subject to a cost threshold.
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The FCC's 2019 Broadband Deployment Report states that 21.3 million Americans lack access to any broadband whatsoever, be it cable, DSL, fiber, or wireless.
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Federal Communications Commission data shows that fiber broadband remains unavailable for the majority of Americans, and there's virtually no broadband competition at faster speeds.
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EPB Broadband, Chattanooga, Tennessee's publicly-owned broadband provider (rated the best ISP in the nation last year by Consumer Reports) came in sixth place.
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In Kanojia's view, there's no competition in the home broadband market because of the sheer costs involved with building out a wired broadband network.
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The Broadband Progress Report approved by the FCC last month found that 85033 percent of Americans on tribal lands lack access to wired broadband.
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Shirley Bloomfield is chief executive officer of NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association, which represents more than 800 community-based broadband providers in 46 states.
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The FCC has proposed a rule to streamline satellite broadband deployment, which could be a cost-effective solution to delivering broadband to unserved areas.
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To disseminate 5G broadband, carriers primarily install "small cells," devices that beam out broadband at relatively short ranges within about a half-mile radius.
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The White House has pushed for more affordable broadband with its ConnectHome initiative, announced last July, to put affordable broadband services in public housing.
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The broadband industry is particularly opposed to the FCC's decision to reclassify broadband companies as "common carriers" under Title II of the Communications Act.
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In 2012, the city of Red Wing and Hiawatha Broadband Communications (HBC) formed a public-private partnership to bring gigabit broadband to Red Wing.
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The FCC's 2019 Broadband Deployment Report states that 21.3 million Americans lack access to any broadband whatsoever, be it cable, DSL, fiber, or wireless.
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As the D.C. Circuit has explained, the very core of net neutrality is ensuring that broadband providers fulfill the reasonable expectations of broadband customers.
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The proposals, AT&T argued, unfairly pit private broadband companies against city broadband providers that may have access to public funding and tax breaks.
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As a result, the nation's cable broadband providers are running away with a greater monopoly over broadband than ever before across countless U.S. markets, gobbling up the lion's share of broadband subscribers while the nation's telcos hemorrhage frustrated DSL users at at alarming rate.
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It has also advised Oak Hill Capital, helping it analyze customer segments of portfolio company Wave Broadband, a broadband fiber company, according to Mergers & Acquisitions.
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Microsoft also wants to see increased funding with infrastructure investments targeted towards broadband coverage in rural areas and improved data collection for rural broadband coverage.
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The most obvious impediments to local broadband competition are laws that exist in 23 states that restrict local communities from building their own broadband networks.
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Reliance has also played a key role, through mobile broadband unit Reliance Jio, in getting more Indians online by subsidizing the cost of internet broadband.
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Another potential catalyst for a true acceleration in cable bundle defections would be if 5G mobile broadband can suffice as an alternative to cable broadband.
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Comcast added 334,000 residential broadband subscribers in third quarter, it announced last month, and views broadband as the primary growth engine of its telecommunications business.
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At end-June 29940, there were 219 million cable broadband subscribers, compared with the 268 million broadband subscribers that CTCL and CUHKL have in total.
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Broadband and mobile deals: Black Friday deals are no longer limited to electronics — broadband and mobile providers are now jumping on the popular shopping holiday.
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In contrast, Pai defines broadband competition as market-driven competition between facilities-based providers of broadband Internet access, and where consumers pick winners and losers.
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The bigger picture: Beyond pay-TV, many satellite companies provide broadband services, particularly in remote areas where fiber-based broadband is too expensive to install.
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The new requirements will make service providers report broadband access using "shapefiles," which are a more precise measurement to indicate where companies have broadband networks.
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"The decision is a victory for U.S. broadband investment and broadband consumers everywhere," David R. McAtee II, AT&T's general counsel, said in a statement.
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When you see an advert for broadband, it's always got a caveman in it, because if you haven't got the latest broadband, you're a caveman.
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In this handy guide, we have selected the best deals for each provider, whether that's for fibre, broadband and TV packages, or simpler broadband only plans.
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The agency's methodology also falsely declares that if just one person in a census block has access to broadband, then everyone in that block has broadband.
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For decades the FCC has taken the broadband industry's word on where broadband is actually available via "form 477" data collected from internet service providers (ISPs).
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Americans without broadband report concern over access to education, jobs, healthcare, and government resources, as we've seen in our past reporting on the widening broadband gap.
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Colorado and Minnesota want help building statewide broadband systems, with Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton, a Democrat, saying his state needs $150 million for its broadband grid.
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" Sanders also led an effort to go after fraudulent cable and broadband pricing, and he's openly stated that Broadband access "is a necessity, not a luxury.
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The initiative aims to bring broadband access to another 20 million Americans by 2020, building on previous goals set by the National Broadband Initiative in 2010.
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The yearly report, mandated by Congress, documents things like new broadband customers in rural areas, broadband expanding to new regions and all that sort of thing.
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So these data likely overstate average broadband speeds somewhat — other measures, for example, peg the average US broadband speed at more like 12 Mbps than 24.
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The initative aims to bring broadband access to another 20 million Americans by 2020, building on previous goals set by the National Broadband Initiative in 2010.
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Together, the new Charter and industry leader Comcast would become the nation's two dominant broadband providers, controlling nearly two-thirds of the high-speed broadband market.
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The more noteworthy objectives include replacing the current dial-up systems with broadband Internet connection and connecting 50% of households with this broadband Internet by 2020.
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In Congress on Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on broadband infrastructure, examining how to more efficiently deploy broadband capabilities to rural areas.
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This will allow "community-driven broadband networks, such as public-private partnerships, rural co-ops or municipally owned broadband networks" to move forward without legal challenges.
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During a Senate Broadband Caucus panel on bridging the digital divide on Wednesday, Klobuchar expressed hope that broadband initiatives would be included in future infrastructure legislation.
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Even more eye-catching is a pledge to nationalise the broadband network and offer free-to-use high-speed broadband to every household in the country.
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It promises to give rural Americans robust 5G broadband and enhance home broadband and could face hefty financial penalties if it did not meet expansion targets.
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Joe Biden has said he would invest $20 billion in rural broadband infrastructure, and triple the amount of funding to expand broadband access in rural areas.
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Today, 70 percent of teachers assign homework that requires a broadband connection, yet millions of American students do not have access to broadband service at home.
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Just to give you an example, if you buy internet broadband access, on average, in the US, the monthly price of broadband is $68 per month.
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Representatives from the telecommunications and broadband industry agreed that broadband options in rural areas are significantly lacking but said they want governments to subsidize their work.
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A new study by broadband availability tracking firm BroadbandNow found that 6 million of the country's 34 million gamers will exceed their broadband caps using Stadia.
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In 2015 the Obama-era FCC reclassified broadband service providers as "common carriers" like traditional telephone companies, giving the agency broader authority to regulate broadband providers.
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Improving broadband infrastructure, including providing broadband for rural America, will yield a wealth of opportunity as well as directly employing an untold number of American workers.
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TL;DR: The best ultrafast broadband deals from Virgin Media now have no set-up fees, making your switch to a new broadband provider even cheaper.
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Startups in the U.K. will be hoping for better performance from the local broadband market after telecoms regulator Ofcom agreed to a deal with the country's largest broadband provider, BT, to legally separate Openreach: aka the division of BT that builds and maintains the broadband infrastructure.
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While the United States has about 100 million broadband households, according to SNL Kagan, that is just a fraction of the 730 million total global broadband households.
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At the same time the FCC has lagged on fixing its broadband mapping, it has fought against local town and city efforts to build better broadband networks.
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With the Trump administration's recent assault on both net neutrality and broadband privacy protections, interest in local broadband as an alternative to incumbent providers has only grown.
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Why it matters: The Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee is a key element of Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's priority of making sure broadband internet reaches all Americans.
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Nearly 40 percent of citizens in rural areas – 23 million people – lack access to broadband Internet service, according to the Federal Communications Commission's 2016 Broadband Progress Report.
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"Offering to extend their broadband footprint and offer subsided broadband to some low income customers furthers existing F.C.C. policy efforts and serves the public interest," he said.
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Any analysis that only looked at the progress in deploying fixed broadband service or only looked at the progress in deploying mobile broadband service would be incomplete.
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The problem: USTelecom and the broadband industry have a very long history of lobbying to scuttle efforts to improve broadband mapping, raising more than a few eyebrows.
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Why it's a BFD: This combination would bring together America's largest wireless company with its second-largest broadband provider (and Verizon isn't too shabby on broadband either).
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Not everyone has learned the lessons from municipal broadband failures and the mostly-squandered billions in broadband subsidies from the Obama-era American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.
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Former vice president Joe Biden has called for $20 billion to expand broadband infrastructure in rural America, and wants to triple funding for rural broadband access programs.
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It also set minimum standards for Lifeline broadband offerings, ensuring that eligible households can now choose to apply their subsidy to a usable broadband service or bundle.
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Ajit Pai got a lot of criticism for recently stopping nine broadband providers from participating in the Lifeline program, which gives subsidized broadband to low-income individuals.
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The study notes that broadband mapping is so bad, the FCC declares an entire census tract served if just one home in that area can receive broadband.
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Since more accurate availability and pricing data would clearly illustrate broadband market failures, the broadband industry routinely lobbies against efforts to shore up data collection and publication.
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Three of the listed competitors are for satellite broadband, a service routinely plagued by high prices, low usage caps, and high latency (read: it's not real broadband).
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The ease factor: About one-quarter (24%) of respondents who do not have broadband at home (which represents about 13% of U.S. households) say the primary reason they do not use home broadband is that their mobile device lets them do everything online they would do with fixed broadband.
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The wide ranging proposal, released Friday morning, would all but demolish big telecom's stranglehold over the broadband and media sectors, unwinding decades of unrelenting consolidation, imposing hard new limits on how much broadband providers can charge for service, while opening the door to significantly broader availability of community broadband.
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This plan would mandate the creation of a new national broadband map, using granular and testable data rather than what we have now, where broadband providers report advertised rather than actual speeds to the F.C.C., and where broadband deployment is calculated by census block rather than by household.
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And if the FCC really wanted competition in broadband, it should have required broadband firms such as the cable companies to open up their networks when it wrote the 1996 Telecom Act (a prevalent practice in many European countries, which have far more robust broadband competition and lower prices).
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"For example, in some areas the Commission's broadband availability data suggests that ISPs have reported significant broadband availability (25 Mbps down/3 Mbps up) while Microsoft's usage data indicates that only a small percentage of consumers actually access the Internet at broadband speeds in those areas," Microsoft said.
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Broadband Retains Growth Potential We believe that Rostelecom can grow its fixed broadband revenue by low- to mid-single digit percentages for the next three to four years.
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Statistics show that broadband internet networks cover nearly all commercial and residential buildings , with the household broadband penetration rate standing at 82.8 per cent (as at August 2014).
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Some critics of the FCC's rules claim that investment in broadband infrastructure was harmed by the adoption of these rules, but broadband providers themselves tell a different story.
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"It's not that low," Rushton said of Italian broadband usage, adding that broadband coverage was high and that fans just needed a compelling offer to switch to streaming.
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Broadband services, particularly wireless broadband, for the most part is a higher-margin business than video, and margins only increase as consumers double down on streaming digital video.
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DEMS OFFER BILLS ON RURAL BROADBAND: House Democrats on Thursday introduced five bills they say would help displaced workers and rural communities gain access to broadband internet service.
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A company like Time Warner Cable provides both video and broadband services, and they're trying to build streaming skinny bundles, because broadband service is a much higher margin.
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Cable TV operators have over 230 million cable TV subscribers and already provide broadband services, but they have failed to grab a significant share of the broadband market.
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The Federal Communications Commission's broadband progress report found that 41 percent of Americans living on tribal lands lacked access to broadband, compared to 10 percent of all Americans.
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There will be £22020M for what it dubs "gold standard" fiber broadband, with funds needing to be matched by broadband providers — so a potential £217M to fund rollouts.
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Already, the F.C.C. has proposed privacy rules for broadband providers, curbing the ability of companies like Verizon and AT&T to collect and share data about broadband subscribers.
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That followed the reclassification of broadband last year into a utilitylike service, a move that required broadband to have privacy rules similar to those imposed on phone companies.
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Wireless Broadband Growth: A key factor in Crown's future revenue and cash flow growth is the wireless industry's need for increasing amounts of mobile broadband wireless network capacity.
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Some states haven't been waiting for federal action and are implementing policy and investing in broadband infrastructure to grow connectivity and ensure that broadband remains a policy priority.
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And other states, including Virginia, Oregon and Washington, are similarly focused on coordinating their broadband efforts to ensure that statewide efforts to improve broadband are cohesive and effective.
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As we've previously discussed, the broadband industry has not only been busy gutting privacy and net neutrality protections, but attempting to gut FCC oversight of broadband ISPs entirely.
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The FCC will vote today on expanding rural broadband access: One proposal will make changes to the way government funds are distributed to improve access to mobile broadband.
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Their petition seeks a declaratory ruling that would help insulate broadband companies from investigations from state governments looking into broadband companies potentially misleading their customers over internet speeds.
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US broadband provider CenturyLink has confirmed to Motherboard it will suspend all broadband usage caps as millions of Americans quarantine themselves to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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Over all, Microsoft concluded that 162.8 million people do not use the internet at broadband speeds, while the F.C.C. says broadband is not available to 24.7 million Americans.
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On the streaming side, FCC data indicates that 34 million Americans lack access to broadband, a number that's likely significantly higher thanks to terrible US broadband availability data.
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That's particularly true of US broadband, where the government's efforts to map the scope of the nation's broadband coverage gaps have long been ridiculed as an inaccurate mess.
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Similarly, Pai has taken steps to make it easier for prison phone monopolies to overcharge inmate families, attempted to weaken broadband measurement metrics to obscure broadband availability gaps, and eliminated price caps designed to protect consumers from the country's business broadband monopoly (which feeds everything from ATMs to cellular towers).
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Since taking office, Pai has eroded programs that bring broadband to the poor, gutted media consolidation rules, helped dismantle broadband privacy protections, killed efforts to bring more competition to the cable box, rushed to the defense of prison monopoly price gouging, passed rules protecting business broadband monopolies, and gutted net neutrality.
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"Should states seek to repeal their anti-competitive broadband statutes, I will be happy to testify on behalf of better broadband and consumer choice," Wheeler said in a statement.
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Though Pai has prevented new companies from joining the Lifeline program to offer broadband, he says that there are already 3.5 million people receiving broadband subsidies through existing providers.
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"If broadband Internet service is an engine for economic growth, then mobile broadband has been its booster rocket, creating a platform for innovation, competition and new markets," he said.
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Even though she would like to see additional broadband competition, she fears the commission's requirements would just lead to Charter knocking out smaller broadband providers, as those companies fear.
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For the year, Dish added 46,000 net broadband subscribers in 2015, bringing its total broadband subscriber base to approximately 623,000 compared to approximately 577,000 at the end of 2014.
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RURAL BROADBAND COMPANIES SHOW SUPPORT FOR FCC CHIEF: A group of small, rural broadband companies on Thursday praised the Federal Communications Commission's moves to repeal its net neutrality rules.
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In this busy time of year, you'll need a broadband connection that can keep up, and that's why Vodafone has dropped a stunning Superfast broadband deal for Black Friday.
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It goes without saying that if a rural community does not have access to broadband, then the veterans living in that community also do not have access to broadband.
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Republicans in Congress and broadband companies like AT&T, Verizon and Cox Communications have vigorously supported it, arguing that the 2015 net neutrality rules stifle necessary investments in broadband.
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Perhaps more gravely, the city expects to spend roughly $130-150 million on the rollout and initial launch of municipal broadband, according to its most recent broadband business plan.
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Big if true: This kind of merger would bring together the largest U.S. wireless company (not to mention a major broadband provider) with the country's second-largest broadband provider.
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"State and local laws governing broadband Internet access service pose a real and significant threat to restoring a light-touch, uniform regulatory framework for broadband service," the paper reads.
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TalkTalk, Vodafone and Sky, all of which rely on the Openreach network to deliver broadband, say BT puts its own financial and strategic interests above delivering the best broadband.
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In the process they're going to run face-first into a US broadband market that has consistently failed to provide quality, affordable broadband to those who need it most.
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Comcast and other broadband providers created the lobbying group 21st Century Privacy Coalition, led by a former Federal Trade Commission chairman, Jon Leibowitz, to defeat the broadband privacy rules.
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All Americans should be inspired that our government, alongside our nation's broadband innovators, is finding new pathways to deliver on the promise that broadband can bring to rural communities.
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It accomplished this by reclassifying broadband as a "telecommunications service" under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act, and in so granted itself the authority to regulate broadband service nationwide.
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Broadband internet company YooMee Africa, for example, covered the entire city of Douala, Cameroon, with its base stations to provide fixed and mobile broadband internet access in just four months.
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On that note, the FCC set rules today for its rural broadband fund auction, where $2 billion in funds will be available for providers to build out rural broadband networks.
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The ISPs are aided in their reluctance by some funky definitions of broadband and broadband supply that make American internet infrastructure look much more robust than it might actually be.
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Openreach, the country's national broadband infrastructure provider, said it would recruit 3,000 engineers in 2018 to ramp up its rollout of fibre broadband to guarantee much faster speeds for users.
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A broadband deployment advisory council created by the FCC to help shore up the nation's broadband coverage gaps has been plagued by scandal, resignations, and accusations of telecom sector cronyism.
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LAUNCH OF RURAL BROADBAND CAUCUS: A group of four House lawmakers launched the "rural broadband caucus" on Wednesday to highlight ways to close the digital divide outside of metropolitan areas.
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The FCC is considering other rule changes to accelerate the deployment of mobile broadband, which is becoming a viable substitute for wireline broadband, especially as next-generation 5G technology emerges.
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According to the agency's broadband deployment report, the number of U.S. residents without access to a high-speed broadband connection decreased by more than 18 percent between 2017 and 2018.
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The mobility fund specifically supports the expansion of broadband networks with up to $500 million available for deploying and maintaining mobile broadband and voice service in high-cost rural areas.
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As noted elsewhere in this Inquiry, mobile and fixed broadband have different technical characteristics and limitations, and broadband providers choose to market their fixed and mobile products in different ways.
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Mr. Stephenson said in prepared remarks that cable companies dominated the broadband and television market, serving high-speed internet to eight of every 10 American homes that have broadband service.
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With so little broadband competition—particularly at higher speeds—and increasing mergers between broadband and content providers, we cannot afford to simply trust that ISPs will do the right thing.
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"Regulation of broadband internet has been the subject of protracted litigation, with broadband providers subjected to and then released from common-carrier regulation over the previous decade," the court wrote.
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When it comes to investing in our country's broadband infrastructure, Republicans should put aside their stale proposals, and work with us to truly improve Americans' access to high-speed broadband.
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Broadband availability also looms as a potential concern in Brazil, where the telecoms regulator announced earlier this week that broadband providers would soon be allowed to set Internet usage limits.
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"Regulation of broadband internet has been the subject of protracted litigation, with broadband providers subjected to and then released from common carrier regulation over the previous decade," the opinion said.
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Indeed, new entrants in the business broadband market, like cable operators, vigorously oppose the FCC's proposal because it will suppress the rates for business broadband services charged by telephone companies.
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" Sarah Morris, director of open internet policy for New America's Open Technology Institute, said in a statement that the 2016 presidential candidates "must be committed to promoting competition in the broadband marketplace, creating space for disruptive broadband models to flourish and ensuring that efforts to improve broadband adoption are recognized and supported.
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While an echo of its original potential, Feld said a lot of the white space broadband debates contributed to significant advancements in the realms of unlicensed spectrum and spectrum sharing, which in turn have helped inform other wireless broadband improvement efforts, like the shared use of Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum.
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"We can't take broadband for granted," said Silicon Harlem co-founder and CEO Clayton Banks recently at the organization's annual conference, adding that the most pressing issue regarding broadband is affordability.
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The first portion of the government's data comes courtesy of an Ookla broadband speed report from last December, which found that average fixed broadband speeds increased by 21 percent in 4.
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According to the FCC, the fund will "inject" $20.4 billion into broadband networks to connect up to 4 million rural homes and businesses with high-speed broadband over the next decade.
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That model could apply to providing broadband too, but restrictions on municipal networks, public-private partnerships, and other regulations make it harder to direct federal dollars toward expanding broadband as efficiently.
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Fitch forecasts fixed-line revenue to grow by a low-single-digit percentage, driven by Telekom Malaysia's (A-/Stable) deployment of high-speed broadband Phase II and sub-urban broadband projects.
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And web companies stand to benefit if efforts to expand broadband to unserved areas are successful — more people hooked up to high-speed broadband means potential new users for their services.
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Which means if one person in that block, which is nearly eight times the size of Rhode Island, has broadband, then the map will show that the whole block has broadband.
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The move was widely criticized by the broadband industry (and the regulators and lawmakers close to it) because it only emphasized the lack of competition in broadband, particularly at higher speeds.
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At the heart of the problem is the FCC's broadband mapping methodology, which declares an entire zip code "served" by broadband if just one home in a census tract has service.
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Broadband providers have long complained that it can take months or years to gain access to utility poles controlled by traditional telcos, slowing down or halting efforts to expand broadband competition.
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Just a few weeks ago, Google hosted a conference entitled "Transforming Communities: Broadband Goals for 2017 and Beyond" organized by Next Century Cities, USIgnite and the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition.
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Rural broadband access on tribal lands is worse than anywhere else in America, and more than a third of those living on tribal lands don't have high-speed broadband at all.
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" In a filing to the FCC last week, Microsoft said it found that the "broadband availability data ... appears to overstate the extent to which broadband is actually available throughout the nation.
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The deployment of 1 Gbps high-speed broadband service across Rogers' entire footprint has created a marketing advantage and positive halo effect to drive increased broadband net additions and higher ARPUs.
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The bipartisan Broadband DATA Act would help improve the FCC's current broadband maps, which have been widely panned as inaccurate and unhelpful, as they often overstate which areas have adequate coverage.
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But the company's ad ambitions have left millions of neglected broadband subscribers in its wake, and a growing cable monopoly as the only real option for millions of underserved broadband subscribers.
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While fixed broadband services do continue to increase — we're now approaching 1 billion fixed broadband users — mobile is definitely the name of the game when it comes to global internet access.
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There, member companies will use "multiple sources of address, building, and parcel data" to create "a broadband serviceable location fabric" to better identify where broadband is available, and where it isn't.
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Private companies stand ready to invest resources and deploy the next generation of broadband networks, but many current regulations stand in the way with excessive fees and conditions on broadband providers.
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One study recently found that US broadband gaps are roughly about twice as bad as the FCC claims, with more than 42 million US homes lacking broadband access of any kind.
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But Sanders' call for the Federal Communications Commission to cap broadband prices goes beyond even Warren's relatively expansive plan, which aimed to achieve affordability by increasing competition in the broadband market.
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Moreover, the California law would prohibit ISPs from offering or providing services other than "broadband Internet access service" that are delivered over the same last-mile connection as the broadband service.
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A spokeswoman for the government division responsible for broadband speeds said the report was "entirely misleading" and said the superfast broadband rollout would cover 95 percent of the country by 2017.
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BT said in response that independent data from the European Union repeatedly placed Britain as the number one performer for broadband and superfast broadband when compared to other large EU countries.
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" ** "Telenor has an OK broadband market share position today.
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January 2013 — $2.3 billion to acquire broadband provider eAccess
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That means, much like Amazon, Google needs to protect its connection speeds from throttle-hungry broadband providers, at least until it can fulfill its dreams of becoming a nationwide broadband provider itself.
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The federal court found that net neutrality rules allow online companies to thrive, which in turn increases consumer demand for broadband, which leads to more broadband investment, leading to new online innovation.
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Broadband download speeds in the U.S. rose 35.8 percent and upload speeds are up 22 percent from last year, according to internet speed-test company Ookla in its latest U.S. broadband report.
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But according to the FCC's 2018 broadband report, the median download speed for US broadband customers was just 72 Mbps as of September 2017 — a far cry from 1Gbps, much less 10Gbps.
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Separate data from Pew in late 2015 showed broadband adoption seems to have plateaued in the U.S. Broadband adoption stands at 67 percent of Americans, down slightly from 70 percent in 2013.
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"The aid will bring very fast broadband to customers in areas where the market does not provide them, in line with the EU broadband connectivity goals," the Commission said in a statement.
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One crucial question that has yet to be determined is the extent to which broadband providers will be willing to offer low-cost broadband service to which the subsidy could be applied.
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Photo: Jacquelyn Martin / APYou know what they say, tens of millions of broadband users here, tens of millions of broadband users there, sooner or later it starts to add up to something.
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The Wall Street Journal has a great report about broadband data caps this week, revealing something everyone already knows: people really don't like the bullshit that huge broadband companies put them through.
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The two co-chairs of the Senate Broadband Caucus introduced a bill on Wednesday that would require the Bureau of Economic Analysis to study the economic effects of broadband deployment and adoption.
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Starace said the vehicle would be open to other operators, adding talks with Telecom Italia and Swisscom's local broadband subsidiary Fastweb were continuing while small Italian broadband firm Metroweb was also interested.
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Announced on Wednesday in New York City, Starry promises to deliver wireless broadband access to consumers for less than what they're paying traditional home broadband providers like Comcast and Time Warner Cable.
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Therefore, the draft report takes a holistic view of the market and examines whether we are both making progress in deploying fixed broadband service and making progress in deploying mobile broadband service.
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"Should states seek to repeal their anti-competitive broadband statutes, I will be happy to testify on behalf of better broadband and consumer choice," he said in a statement after the ruling.
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"Without the FCC's broadband privacy rule, broadband providers will be able to sell dossiers of the personal and professional lives of their subscribers to the highest bidder without their consent," he added.
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He also committed to investing $20 billion to expand broadband access across the country, including $10 billion dollars specifically for the Agriculture Department's Rural Utilities Service fund to directly deploy broadband access.
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There is a bipartisan House Rural Broadband Caucus, which last year urged the president to included dedicated broadband funding in any infrastructure deal before the White House released its own infrastructure plan.
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Lawmakers in the House are trying to tackle the "digital divide" — the disparity between internet access in highly connected urban areas and rural areas that lack fast broadband — or broadband at all.
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In its FCC filing, Amazon claimed that 298 billion people around the world still don't have reliable access to broadband internet, and that 29 million Americans don't have access to fixed broadband.
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With the FCC preparing its latest report of the state of broadband in the States, the focus has shifted once again to whether the current definition of broadband is currently fast enough.
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After spending the better part of the last decade fighting against more accurate broadband mapping data, the broadband industry this week proclaimed the sector was now "leading the charge" for better data.
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This results in data that routinely overestimates both where broadband is available and at what speeds, something made obvious if you spend some time with the FCC's $350 million broadband availability map.
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With the FCC's broadband advisory panel rapidly approaching its one year anniversary, Pai recently took to Twitter to praise the panel's work on shoring up broadband connectivity for the nation's have nots.
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While Pai claimed the panel's productivity strained FCC resources, Liccardo claims that the panel has yet to provide even one meaningful recommendation to help aid broadband consumers looking for better, cheaper broadband.
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But for five years as a minority member of the F.C.C., Mr. Pai consistently voted against regulations such as those limiting business broadband prices and a broadband subsidy for low-income Americans.
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At the time, there were persistent reports of broadband companies seeking to block or otherwise frustrate these new services; in a few years, some broadband providers would begin blocking new services outright.
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And where the evidence has changed, such as in the dramatic growth of wireless broadband, it shows the broadband market is more competitive than it was in 2007, strengthening the report's conclusions.
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In short, my research shows the original concept of a broadband internet ecosystem embodied in the National Broadband Plan remains both relevant and a very worthy goal for our country to continue.
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Lifeline's broadband expansion will be available to about 40 million Americans Lifeline's broadband expansion will be available to about 40 million Americans and has a proposed budget of $2.25 billion a year.
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Groups like the Internet Association, a Washington trade group representing internet companies like Netflix, Amazon and Facebook, dispute the FCC and broadband companies' numbers and say net neutrality hasn't depressed broadband investment.
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A new study by BroadbandNow, a consumer-focused company that tracks US broadband availability, states that passing "dig once" legislation could have saved the United States $126 billion in broadband deployment costs.
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Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has unveiled a plan she says will not only improve broadband access in America, but kill state laws specifically designed by the telecom industry to hamstring broadband competition.
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President Trump's FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, a former lawyer for Verizon, one of the largest broadband internet providers in the country, is a longtime critic of regulations like the broadband privacy rules.
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Thirty percent of West Virginians don't have access to broadband, and in rural areas nearly half—48 percent—of residents lack broadband access, according to a report from Senator Joe Manchin this year.
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According to the FCC's new Internet Access Services Report, 13 percent of "developed census blocks" can't get broadband at all at the FCC's standard "broadband" definition of 25 Mbps down, 3 Mbps up.
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Watch for Democrats to cross-examine him over pulling back on other Wheeler initiatives, including privacy rules for broadband providers and changes to broadband access for low-income people and schools and libraries.
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"While TVision Home uses your existing wired broadband today, TVision Home is IPTV designed for a 5G future where wireless broadband can replace your home internet," the company said in its press release.
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Superfast broadband offers download speeds of at least 30 Mbits per second, while ultrafast broadband, typically delivered through fiber optics connections into the home, offers speeds of at least 300 Mbits per second.
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SPACEX WANTS TO LAUNCH BROADBAND-DEPLOYING SATELLITES: SpaceX, the Elon Musk-founded aerospace company, told Congress that it is planning to launch a network of satellites to deliver broadband internet access from space.
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While significant progress in broadband deployment has been made, due in part to the FCC's action to support broadband through its Universal Service programs, these advances are not occurring broadly or quickly enough.
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"This assumes that expanding access to the internet drives broadband penetration from 50% to 75% of the global population, with SpaceX able to capture ~10% of the incremental broadband subscribers," the analysts wrote.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) counts that 21 million Americans don't have access to broadband, and recent data from Microsoft indicates that over 162 million Americans don't use the internet at broadband speeds.
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Sky's Italian unit is close to signing a deal with Italian broadband company Open Fiber that will allow it to stream programs and offer high-speed broadband services, two sources said on Tuesday.
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Even more exciting, municipal broadband proponents were given a major victory this week in Fort Collins, where the city council voted unanimously in favor of constructing a municipal broadband solution for their city.
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At the moment, broadband companies are promising not to act unfairly, and they argue that undoing the rules would give them further incentive to invest in their broadband capacity, ultimately improving the internet.
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Warren and Buttigieg are the only candidates calling for a public option for broadband, but other presidential candidates have also laid out their own plans to extend broadband coverage across the country. Sen.
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Several technology companies are proposing to use TVWS to bridge the digital divide, and a new rural broadband coalition has been established, which is dedicated to increasing rural access to broadband using TVWS.
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The FCC historically hasn't done a good job confirming telecom speed or coverage claims, something reflected by the FCC's $350 million broadband map, which critics say all but hallucinates broadband availability and speed.
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But about 12.6 million American households lack access to broadband, according to a study last year by the Federal Communications Commission, which has classified broadband as a type of utility, similar to telephones.
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By adopting a "broadband first," approach, the administration's new report is encouraging — from easing federal permitting in remote communities to including broadband in its definition of infrastructure in an August 2017 executive order.
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The project will launch a constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to people globally who lack basic access to broadband internet, the company said.
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In April, the FCC released its consumer broadband label, a new tool that will give consumers more information about the fees and terms of service associated with their fixed and mobile broadband service.
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Although from a late start, the company's large fixed-line franchise and extensive copper infrastructure has allowed it to rapidly develop its broadband subscriber base and become the largest broadband operator in Georgia.
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Mr. Pai said on Thursday that he wanted to overturn the declaration of broadband as a utility-like service, which puts stricter rules on broadband providers, akin to what phone services face today.
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Broadband is miserable, overpriced, controlled by a handful of companies.
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The Pai FCC's latest broadband deployment report is no exception.
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Starlink would offer broadband speeds comparable to fiber optic networks.
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But bringing broadband to more people is a good thing.
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She also advocates for improved broadband signals in rural communities.
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This has resulted in increasing numbers of Americans adopting broadband.
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Another issue that Coloradans could get behind is municipal broadband.
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First, most broadband providers simply don't offer the services listed.
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False. No new broadband universal service fees have been assessed.
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It also fails to track consumers' biggest broadband complaint: pricing.
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"Competition is core to successful broadband markets," the report states.
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KEVIN MAYER: Well, the Netherlands has a lot of broadband.
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Thune said he's interested in talking about rural broadband expansion.
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These are the best BT broadband deals in August 2019.
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It's been allocated to public utilities, for wireless broadband services.
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We have got to lay broadband all over the country.
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America also needs more choice in wireless and broadband markets.
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It's using a different, proprietary standard for 5G broadband, however.
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SpaceX is also hoping to use satellites to beam broadband.
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Both parties agreed broadband and clean energy will be included.
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Last year the FCC changed the definition of broadband internet.
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That rise has come at the expense of wired broadband.
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It that is to happen, it will need better broadband.
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This Virgin broadband and TV deal is not for everyone.
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This broadband, TV, and phone package is absolutely stacked, though.
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Of course they're not going to define 210Mbps as broadband.
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Broadband speed tests are nothing new, and results do vary.
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He focused on revamping the broadband infrastructure for public schools.
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The agency has also affirmed subsidiary SK Broadband Co., Ltd.
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They prevent broadband access providers from interfering with that right.
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Faster broadband would make them more profitable and more productive.
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And yet almost everybody agrees that broadband is a necessity.
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The company has about 25 million total home broadband customers.
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Expect questions on the Federal Communications Commission's broadband privacy rulemaking.
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The broadband industry's biggest issue remains a lack of competition.
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In many areas, consumers have few choices of broadband providers.
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Broadband is an opportunity for us to leapfrog developed countries.
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Wheeler's Republican colleagues and the broadband industry cheered the ruling.
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Cable broadband internet service penetration was even lower, at 6%.
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Motherboard is empowering people to build community-owned broadband networks .
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Broadband networks are expensive and outages are costly to consumers.
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The service will only be available to Comcast broadband subscribers.
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In emerging markets, broadband access is limited and relatively expensive.
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Wisconsin needs rural broadband infrastructure, quality schools and safe roads.
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A POLICY UPDATE: BILL WOULD ROLLBACK BROADBAND PRIVACY REGS: Rep.
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Our new approach injected tremendous uncertainty into the broadband market.
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As you'd expect, broadband providers are opposed to the proposals.
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Comcast owns a sizable broadband company in addition to cable.
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Opposing them are broadband providers, who have been vocal critics.
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They fear that such rules will stifle investment in broadband.
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Think about that — virtually no broadband just 20 years ago.
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There's some truth here: Broadband alone can't save rural communities.
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And click here for more on the broadband subsidy proposal.
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Now the political squabble over broadband may hurt her livelihood.
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Kathryn de Wit is manager of Pew's broadband research initiative.
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What's the best example of how broadband access improves lives?
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European fixed broadband network providers such as Virgin Media Inc.
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I know there are technological hurdles to providing universal broadband.
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Birdsville is expected to get broadband internet access next year.
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Even where broadband is available, many people can't afford it.
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Some 525,000 new customers had also taken its broadband service.
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Starlink will offer broadband speeds comparable to fiber optic networks.
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Broadband infrastructure legislation has been building momentum in recent weeks.
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Blackburn has repeatedly acted to undermine community broadband development efforts.
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As of June 30, StarHub's residential broadband subscribers totaled 473,000.
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Municipal broadband seems like the savior of the open internet.
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His campaign's infrastructure agenda never mentions broadband or internet access.
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Meanwhile, rural communities are still building their first broadband networks.
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Telstra dominates the mobile telephone and broadband industries in Australia.
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These are the best Virgin Media broadband deals for 2019.
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In some places, that means new highways or broadband infrastructure.
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He presented 5G as an alternative to broadband moving forward.
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And that has put a huge strain on broadband networks.
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Motherboard is empowering people to build community-owned broadband networks .
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It is a broadband pipe into classrooms with educational assets.
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Today marks the 10th anniversary of the National Broadband Plan.
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The plan calls for technological investments in rural broadband expansion.
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These are all the best EE broadband deals in 2019.
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This was thanks in large part to its broadband service.
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You connect a primary base station to your broadband modem.
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The legislation could include money for building up broadband infrastructure.
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Charter's controlling shareholder, billionaire John Malone's Liberty Broadband Corp LBDR.
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Or, as Ms. McGarrahan suggests, extend broadband to underserved areas?
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A similar approach might work for expanding broadband access today.
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These comments clearly signal support for the broadband privacy proposal.
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Ultimately the only thing that drives broadband deployment is competition.
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But broadband companies would still know what websites people visit.
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Subscriber broadband growth has significantly slowed in Georgia since 2014.
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These are all the best TalkTalk broadband deals in 2019.
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"Internet" and "broadband" have yet to notch a single mention.
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Clinton's platform calls for greater competition in local broadband markets.
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This means there will be more competition among broadband providers.
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The private sector invested over $1.5 trillion in broadband networks.
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And when muni broadband networks fail, they often fail spectacularly.
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Motherboard is empowering people to build community-owned broadband networks .
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BEST DEALS ON BROADBAND THIS WEEK BT Superfast Fibre 225 + Weekend Calls — 12 months, 67Mbps, £39.99 a month, £9.99 set-up fee TalkTalk Broadband Unlimited — 18 months, 11Mbps, £383 a month, zero up-front fee Plusnet Unlimited Fibre Extra Broadband — 18 months, 66Mbps, £27.99 a month, £5 set-up fee Vodafone Superfast 2 — 18 months, 63Mbps, £29 a month, zero up-front fee Virgin M200 Fibre Broadband and phone — 12 months, 213Mbps, £38 a month, £25 set-up fee It's something most of you probably want to avoid, but every now and then you are going to be forced to reconsider your broadband contract.
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Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)Of course you're still limited by the speed of your incoming broadband, but 5GHz is more likely to serve that broadband up faster and more reliably than its 2.4GHz counterpart.
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FCC chair Ajit Pai's plan to repeal net neutrality provisions and reclassify broadband providers from "common carriers" to "information services" is an unprecedented giveaway to big broadband providers and a danger to the internet.
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"As a general use consumer 'broadband' product OnionDSL falls short on many counts, but if taken solely as a dedicated censorship / surveillance busting broadband product then it is pretty damn cool," Llewelyn told Motherboard.
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Iridium's global satellite constellation, however, won't be in competition with the SpaceX broadband endeavor, as Iridium provides service to satellite phones and other receivers, including those used in aircraft — not a global broadband connection.
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As the next generation of broadband networks comes along, including 5G wireless networks, we are encouraged to see the FCC considering new and innovative ways to approach the persistent issue of rural broadband expansion.
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One is to be able to provide broadband in markets where there is little or no fixed broadband infrastructure, and where even wireless networks (which are cheaper to build than fixed networks) lack backhaul.
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Microsoft released a study this week estimating that nearly 163 million people do not use broadband speed internet, a significantly larger number than the FCC's estimate that 24.7 million people lack access to broadband.
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The bipartisan Broadband DATA Act would help improve the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) current broadband maps, which have been widely panned as inaccurate and unhelpful, as they often overstate which areas have adequate coverage.
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Fewer than 10% of British premises have access to full-fiber broadband, according to Ofcom, far behind countries like Spain, Europe's fiber leader, which plans to have 100% 300 Mbps fiber broadband by 2021.
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In other words, in order to be considered as being provided adequate broadband capabilities by the FCC's standards, you would need to have both fixed broadband and mobile data service meeting the basic requirements.
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FCC data suggests there's still tens of millions of Americans stuck on sluggish DSL lines or satellite broadband connections that barely meet the FCC's standard definition of broadband (25 Mbps downstream, 4 Mbps upstream).
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Read more: Six Ways Big Telecom Tries to Kill Community Broadband Now that the FCC has chosen not to appeal its defeat, municipal broadband advocates will focus in repealing restrictive state laws, Feld said.
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For instance, Viasat, a leading US satellite broadband provider, offered 30 MBps service for $1900 per year; by comparison, AT&T offered 300 MBps broadband service for $480 per year, according to GSMA Intelligence.
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Wireless Broadband Growth: A key factor in future revenue and cash flow growth for Crown and its industry peers is the growth in wireless network capacity needed to meet demand for mobile broadband services.
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In other words we've spent decades looking at America's broadband problem through rose-colored glasses, and however bad we think US broadband issues are (and they're clearly terrible), the actual problem is decidedly worse.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2016 rejected arguments made by the broadband industry that the FCC's 2015 decision to redefine broadband as a telecommunications service was arbitrary and capricious.
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When broadband service emerged in the late 1990s, many people assumed it would be classified as a telecommunications service, and that's how the early DSL-based broadband services provided by telephone companies were regulated.
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TPG said it expects to have less than 15% of its residential broadband customer base remaining on Asymmetric digital subscriber lines - a variant of broadband communications technology - by the end of full year 2020.
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Reliance has been testing its broadband service in some cities, offering what it says is faster internet connectivity than regular broadband where the fibre reaches only up to the building and not directly into homes.
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Still, critics like the Electronic Frontier Foundation have long warned that terminating consumer broadband access is a severe, problematic over-reaction to copyright infringement, especially given that broadband is increasingly seen as an essential utility.
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Broadband deployment also narrowly avoided a major setback in the proposal that mobile data service should count as being served with broadband, for the purposes of finding out who has sufficient connectivity and who doesn't.
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Now those days are over and when 5G comes along and people cut the broadband cord and you don't, you're not buying your broadband from the traditional cable company, it's going to change even more.
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So the more people want to stream, the more you want the best broadband; hence, you're seeing the kind of results we saw today in the first quarter, which is why broadband has been strong.
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Altice sells HBO and CBS' All Access streaming services with its broadband Internet service without requiring the purchase of a bundle of cable channels, but it does not sell the Starz service broadband-only homes.
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Harvard's latest study found that community-owned broadband networks are not only consistently cheaper than traditional private networks, but pricing for broadband service also tends to be notably more transparent, more consistent, and less confusing.
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Curtailing conditions: The agency eliminated a condition attached to the merger of Charter and Time Warner Cable, so Charter no longer has to "overbuild" its broadband network to certain areas where broadband service already exists.
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The Reliance Industries owned company is now planning to disrupt the wired broadband market with its own FTTH service that would offer Gigabit speeds at a fraction of the cost of current broadband service providers.
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"Overall, capital expenditures by broadband providers increased in 2017, reversing declines that occurred in both 2015 and 2016," the FCC claimed, again hinting that the repeal of net neutrality directly impacted CAPEX and broadband investment.
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In a comment (PDF) filed in the upcoming 250 Broadband Deployment Report's docket, the organization points out a single huge outlier that vastly, and incorrectly, inflates the numbers of new broadband connections in the country.
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Believe it or not, Pai's FCC claims that "sufficient competition" exists if a local BDS market is served by one broadband provider, as long as there is a second broadband provider within a half-mile.
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Frustrated consumers, tired of high prices and limited availability, have embraced the idea of broadband as an essential utility, a major reason why hundreds and towns and cities have started building their own broadband networks.
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Mitchel conceded that measuring the economic and employment impact of better broadband can be difficult, but said there's no doubt that the city's foray into broadband provided profound benefits to the region as a whole.
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While the developed world is working to make 5G and next-generation satellite broadband a reality, many developing countries still lack the broadband access that is necessary for meaningful participation in the today's global economy.
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To his credit, Pai already has moved quickly to shift the FCC's primary focus from imposing new restrictions on broadband services to encouraging more broadband availability for all Americans by employing less heavyhanded interventionist means.
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"For well over a decade, the high-capacity broadband marketplace has suffered from a lack of competition, costing the American economy billions and slowing investments in next generation broadband technologies," Sprint said in a statement.
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The difference is cable and broadband companies laid cable and fiber as part of franchises awarded by municipalities, and over 50 percent of the U.S. has just one cable or broadband company to choose from.
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The telco said combined headwinds from residential Digital Subscriber Line - a type of broadband internet - and home phone customers moving to National Broadband Network (NBN) are expected to be around A$85 million ($57.41 million).
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The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to require broadband service providers like Comcast and Verizon to provide more granular information about where their services are available in order to create more precise broadband maps.
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Driving the news: The Federal Communications Commission last week voted to require broadband service providers to report more detailed data about where their networks are available after criticism that the agency's data overstates broadband access.
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Since expanding broadband to rural areas is expensive and challenging due to low population density and difficult geography, the report calls for new infrastructure and innovative business models that promote capital investments in rural broadband.
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PARIS, Aug 31 (Reuters) - French telecoms operator Iliad said on Wednesday its broadband average revenue per user fell in the first half but it continued to win customers in both the mobile and broadband businesses.
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That's why the internet service providers (ISPs) opposed the Federal Communications Commission's broadband privacy rules, which Congress voted to repeal last year, and why they're fighting broadband privacy bills in the states so fiercely now.
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Inmarsat's chief executive Rupert Pearce said partnering with a leader in in-flight entertainment was a "massive vote of confidence" in the capability of its GX high-speed broadband network to provide in-flight broadband.
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Led by the Federal Communications Commission's Connect America Fund, many of our broadband companies are working shoulder-to-shoulder with government to bring broadband to hard-to-reach communities — overcoming challenging distances, terrain and economics.
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A national rural broadband plan would designate a single agency — preferably the Rural Utilities Service, with its century-long relationship with rural communities and offices in every state — as the primary coordinator for rural broadband.
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Internet for islanders The biggest obstacle to extending broadband across the Asia-Pacific is one of topography: Broadband is delivered primarily by copper or fiber optic cables, including some that stretch under the Atlantic Ocean.
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That's perfectly personified by the FCC's $350 million broadband availability map, which users routinely discover not only hallucinates both ISP availability and speeds, but fails to even mention US consumers' biggest broadband pet peeve: price.
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Myth: Title II regulations haven't reduced infrastructure investment and broadband deployment.
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That's less than half the speed of the current broadband standard.
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In those regions, nearly 40 percent of people can't get broadband.
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A map of fixed and unfixed broadband coverage as of 2016.
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Does Chairman Pai have his own ideas as to broadband improvement?
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With 5G I think we're going to cut the broadband core.
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Reclassification of broadband will do more than wreak havoc on net
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As a result of today's misguided action, our broadband providers will
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False. No broadband entry regulation has been imposed by the FCC.
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Chairman Pai: There will be new broadband universal service fees assessed.
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Last year, average download speeds for broadband were around 25 Mbps.
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Half of the population has no choice of fixed-broadband supplier.
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The fight over the FCC's broadband privacy rules is not over.
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These hybrid fleets will deliver broadband coverage of the polar regions.
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Broadband access is a crucial resource often denied to poor families.
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GOEI: I THINK WE ARE MORE THAN OBVIOUSLY A BROADBAND PROVIDER.
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They've also created a broadband connection at the University of Douala.
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It will weaken our ability to support robust broadband infrastructure deployment.
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Some 68 million Americans, he says, have only one broadband server.
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The LEO broadband firms are trying to reinvent the satellite industry.
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Take the commitment to gigabit broadband in poorer areas, for instance.
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Video partners include Broadband TV (BBTV), DreamworksTV, AwesomenessTV, Studio71, and Freedom!
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On the broadband front, we find a significant concentration of capital.
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FCC gets ready to kick off $2 billion rural broadband fund
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Broadband internet changed that; we didn't go online, we were online.
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The odds: Satellite broadband constellations aren't a sure bet, business-wise.
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But heavy discounts are now also seen in the broadband business.
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Nevertheless, Optus has both strong mobile and fixed-line broadband offerings.
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A group representing broadband providers Sunday called on Congress to act.
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What isn't contentious, however, is that Americans want fast, cheap broadband.
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Mobile broadband is pervasive, even if it's still not cheap enough.
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Digital technologies and broadband internet connectivity have transformed the communications marketplace.
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Jasmine is Thailand's second largest broadband operator with 2 million subscribers.
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Most tech talk around infrastructure has focused on broadband deployment. Software.
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So far, 20 million students have broadband internet in their classrooms.
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New Jersey had the fastest broadband, while Maine had the slowest.
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In doing so, it also took the broadband infrastructure with it.
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No cable or satellite TV package required — just a broadband connection.
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A hassle free broadband deal is worth its weight in gold.
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Now Broadband plus free anytime calls — £18 a month See Details
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Comcast engages in the same behavior on its cable broadband network.
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Today's Falcon launch carries 2 SpaceX test satellites for global broadband.
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Broadband infrastructure will also be a focus in the coming week.
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Four out of 10 residents of the Motor City lack broadband.
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Prepare for this busy period with an impressive Vodafone broadband deal.
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The agency has also affirmed its subsidiary SK Broadband Co., Ltd.
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Boosting access to quality broadband drives major benefits to these regions.
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Elisa will buy Anvia's broadband, fixed-line phone and TV business.
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Labour's plan contrasts with the governing Conservative Party's vision for broadband.
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Lack of broadband access deprives rural residents of information and opportunity.
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Too many rural communities lack standard broadband access and download speeds.
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We need that broadband that is faster and faster and faster.
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On its surface, broadband access can seem like a tech issue.
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Leaking broadband (frankly, accidentally) onto the branch stoops is not enough.
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But fixed broadband offers regional consumers few (if any) competitive choices.
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STEM education and broadband access are often seen as separate issues.
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All of the panelists pushed for more competition in broadband services.
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The funds can be used for wireless or fixed-wire broadband.
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The Community Broadband Act of 2016, which was sponsored by Rep.
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Whether ratemaking for broadband really makes sense is another question altogether.
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Hundreds more communities have at least some publicly owned broadband infrastructure.
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In fact, competitors are investing in broadband at an unprecedented level.
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Earlier this month, the bipartisan Senate Broadband Caucus, led by Sen.
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Clinton promises to expand broadband, defend Net Neutrality and promote cybersecurity.
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Many US residents lack broadband because they simply can't afford it.
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Fixed broadband speeds are getting faster — what's fastest in your city?
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Superfast broadband connections run at 24 megabits per second (Mb/s).
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This incredible view into broadband and into networks and into experiences?
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But Big Telecom has a history of opposing municipal broadband initiatives.
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Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, has 25 million broadband customers.
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Everybody has phones, but not everybody has access to broadband. Right.
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Now an estimated 15 percent of broadband-only homes own one.
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Three UK launched its 5G home broadband service on August 19th.
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Virgin Media bundles combine epic TV, superfast broadband, and intelligent WiFi.
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The biggest thing we encounter is about capability of broadband systems.
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They're often forced to choose between broadband subscriptions and other bills.
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Judging such practices often requires rigorously measuring broadband provider market power.
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Business data services are the critical foundation for the broadband economy.
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SpaceX is planning to launch several test broadband satellites on Saturday.
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Cooper said satellites could help provide broadband access to rural communities.
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Business broadband packages can offer features specifically made for business customers.
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There's hardly any competition in the broadband market as it is.
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The market for broadband access has changed dramatically in the interim.
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Like so many U.S. cities, broadband in New York City sucks.
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It also reversed multiple FCC precedents to reclassify broadband as telecommunications.
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Republicans have always believed broadband providers aren't Title II common carriers.
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Until recently, increasing broadband deployment had traditionally been a bipartisan cause.
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He also wants to ensure free broadband to public housing residents.
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Repeal the rules, Pai declared, and US broadband investment would explode.
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We want to get to 5G wireless broadband before anyone else.
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But many rural areas of the country remain without broadband access.
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Goei says both plans are "deeply flawed" as cable broadband alternatives.
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In rural and low-income communities, broadband infrastructure simply doesn't exist.
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Jonathan Spalter is president and CEO of USTelecom – The Broadband Association.
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Having broadband internet could help him study and research outside opportunities.
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Climate change, and broadband connections, have already altered education and commerce.
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Our lack of universal broadband means we are losing that competition.
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Finally, the proposal to regulate business broadband rates is deeply flawed.
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Building cellular and broadband networks is a very capital-intensive business.
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To Pai, it would help broadband investment in the United States.
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So Ford is right: Municipal broadband is bad for telecom companies.
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The ruling wasn't about the merits of city-owned broadband services.
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Cable companies and telephone companies could both offer broadband to customers.
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BEST DEALS ON VIRGIN MEDIA BROADBAND M100 Fibre Broadband — 12 months, 543Mbps, £27 a month, £35 set-up fee Bigger Bundle with Sports — 12 months, 108Mbps, £65 a month, £35 set-up fee M200 Student Broadband — 30 day rolling, 213Mbps, £40 a month, no set-up fee If your home broadband can be supplied by Virgin Media, you can often get the very best download speeds in the UK. This supplier is therefore perfect for larger households or homes that use a lot of devices at once.
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Regarding the FCC declining to pursue net neutrality rules for mobile broadband: Although the majority concedes that the Commission has authority to impose open internet conduct rules on mobile broadband service licensees, it declines to do so because of its view that this would lead to imposing regulatory burdens on mobile licensees that are not placed on fixed broadband services.
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The Electoral College map, U.S. poverty map and share of broadband households map U.S. 2014 census data put broadband penetration at 213%, but as the Brookings Institute points out in a December, 2015, Broadband Adoption Rates and Gaps in U.S. Metropolitan Areas report, there is wide disparity when you look at a sub-national level and based on demographics like income.
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A linchpin of its strategy is increased resident access to broadband via projects named Gigabit Harlem and Connect Uptown NYC, which works with broadband providers to bring state-of-the art Web infrastructure to the community.
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His group has frequently released studies showing that incumbent broadband providers like AT&T skimp on delivering broadband to rural, low income, and minority areas, despite having been given billions in taxpayer subsidies for uniform service.
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Broadband providers, however, display no such intent to convey a message in their provision of broadband Internet access services—they do not engage in speech themselves but serve as a conduit for the speech of others.
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Doing so makes it incredibly hard for broadband providers to sign up for the program, which was only expanded to broadband last year; there are currently no states that actually have this approval process in place.
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" All told, the study found that direct price comparisons among broadband ISPs "is extraordinarily difficult because the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does not collect any pricing data and does not track broadband availability by address.
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A lack of competition in broadband has resulted in the rise of usage caps and overage fees, which not only let cable operators raise rates on broadband, but makes cutting the cord more expensive and confusing.
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Case in point: In April 2016, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rolled out new labels for mobile and fixed broadband providers to help consumers find specifics about the prices and performance offered by U.S. broadband companies.
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Critics have long argued that broadband usage caps are arbitrary and unnecessary network limits imposed simply to increase revenues and punish users who cancel a telecom operator's traditional pay TV service, but retain their broadband services.
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But defining broadband differently has no effect on the speeds provided by a completely different program; that these connections wouldn't be classified as broadband in FCC studies going forward doesn't mean they would cease to function.
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Now, almost a decade after Australia's government first led efforts to bring broadband to Australia, the NBN project is still underperforming and Australians still don't have the world-class broadband network they want and were promised.
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LONDON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - British broadband provider TalkTalk said it was still in discussions with interested parties regarding its FibreNation business after Britain's opposition Labour Party said it planned to create a "British Broadband" public service.
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Any private firms considering investing in a market with a municipal broadband utility must be concerned that a future local government may try to prop up a failing broadband utility by favoring it over private providers.
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In Congressional testimony earlier this year, former FCC lawyer Gigi Sohn estimated that some 141 million people in the US lack access to fixed broadband at speeds of 25 Mbps, the FCC's base definition of broadband.
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According to a 2015 report from the NYC Bureau of Policy and Research, about a quarter of NYC households lack broadband internet at home, and 32 percent of people outside the workforce lack broadband at home.
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During its attempt to fix the problem, Microsoft has brought a lot of attention to the fact that US broadband coverage gaps are likely far worse than the FCC estimates, thanks to crappy US broadband maps.
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The FCC's RDOF promises up to $20 billion over ten years to finance high speed broadband networks in unserved rural areas, which has the potential to connect millions more American homes and businesses to quality broadband.
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Broadband providers like Verizon, AT&T and Charter Communications have tried to match their efforts, also spending money on lobbying in favor of rolling back net neutrality regulations, which they argue stifle investment in broadband infrastructure.
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Efforts in Congress to expand broadband infrastructure for underserved rural areas have gained attention over the past year as anticipation has increased over the prospect of an infrastructure overhaul bill that could fund rural broadband buildouts.
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"The Commission's broadband availability data, which underpins FCC Form 477 and the Commission's annual Section 706 report, appears to overstate the extent to which broadband is actually available throughout the nation," Microsoft said in the filing.
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Congress had given the FCC the power to preempt laws that restrict the development of broadband networks in 1996, and the FCC used that power to preempt a Missouri law banning cities from building broadband networks.
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Switzerland, a Competitive Market UPC benefits from broadband speed advantage given speeds deliverable via DOCSIS technologies in Switzerland, where Fitch estimates the company's national broadband subscriber market share stood at around 21% at 3Q16 (37% in- footprint).
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But the court ruled that the FCC was justified in reclassifying broadband as a telecom utility because consumers see broadband as a pipe for internet service and a way to get online to use websites and apps.
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"Judging from the excessive gigabyte prices, US operators are charging today for 4G mobile broadband...merger promises concerning affordable 5G home broadband should be critically reviewed and if verified must be made binding," the research firm warned.
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The result are companies that can't even technically offer even the FCC's base definition of "broadband" (25 Mbps), yet often charge the same or higher prices users in more developed areas pay for gigabit (1000 Mbps) broadband.
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Note that it refutes none of the mayor's statements:The Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee and its working groups have brought together 101 participants from a range of perspectives to recommend strategies to promote better, faster, and cheaper broadband.
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"Lifting the current ban on paid prioritization arrangements could allow broadband providers to favor the transmission of one provider's content or services (or the broadband provider's own online content or services) over other online content," Apple said.
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It is a view that eschews the FCC's role in broadband privacy enforcement altogether, embraces the FTC's primary role and questions why broadband internet service providers are treated more harshly than technology companies operating on the edge.
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The full report by BroadbandNow, a consumer-focused company that tracks US broadband availability, indicates the total number of state restrictions on community broadband has jumped from 20 such restrictions since the group's last report in 2018.
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In approving the merger between AT&T and DirecTV last year, for instance, regulators required a building out of more broadband services to millions of households and the offering of cheaper broadband option for low-income homes.
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With the absence of a market failure or evidence of consumer harm, the FCC should return to its long-time bipartisan approach of light touch regulation of broadband, especially given the recent decline in annual broadband investment.
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As the broadband era commenced, broadband providers have leapt to the call once again, leading the way in building advanced networks that support cutting-edge technologies and the internet's fastest speeds across large portions of rural America.
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It would nationalise Openreach - the fixed-line network arm of the country's biggest broadband and mobile phone provider - as well as parts of BT Technology, BT Enterprise and BT Consumer to created a "British Broadband" public service.
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It would nationalize Openreach - the fixed-line network arm of the country's biggest broadband and mobile phone provider - as well as parts of BT Technology, BT Enterprise and BT Consumer to created a "British Broadband" public service.
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The Federal Communications Commission, which in 2014 began giving experimental broadband grants to alternative carriers like electric companies, recently proposed $2 billion in such grants over the next decade to new broadband providers such as power cooperatives.
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Part of Socia's job, then, is to help these leaders better understand what, if any, broadband options are available to them, and how they might go about attracting broadband investment, whether from the private or public sector.
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For example, FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn recently complained that the panel's new recommendations for states looking to improve broadband availability explicitly tries to hamstring community broadband networks, often the only creative solution available for many underserved communities.
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Nearly two dozen states have passed ISP-backed laws banning towns and cities from building their own broadband networks, and companies like AT&T have even tried burying broadband competition-eroding measures in unrelated state traffic ordinances.
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As many as seven in ten teachers assign homework that requires access to broadband "Today, as many as seven in ten teachers assign homework that requires access to broadband," FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement.
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President Trump signed an executive order focused on broadband in rural America this month, and the Communications and Technology subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on 25 different broadband-related bills for consideration.
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Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have included building out high-speed broadband as part of their infrastructure policy, and have been a bit more vocal on timely issues like industry competition, municipal fiber networks, and broadband subsidies.
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The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) said that Optus, one of Australia's largest telcos, had misled consumers about the need to move to the National Broadband Network (NBN) or risk having their broadband service 'disconnected very soon'.
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The telco said the combined headwinds from residential Digital Subscriber Line - a type of broadband internet - and home phone customers moving to the National Broadband Network (NBN) are expected to be around A$13 million ($57.4 million).
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So the broadband battle for satellites in the sky may soon begin.
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It angered the broadband industry, as you might expect, for several reasons.
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Google has to figure out how to become a nationwide broadband company.
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MyRepublic, on the other hand, was born and bred on broadband networks.
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But the FCC's own data show that our broadband markets are not
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The spending package earmarks $10 billion for highways, airports, railroads and broadband.
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Now our broadband providers will tell you they will never do these
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Which one do you think sounds like what a broadband provider does?
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One issue they've pointed to in particular is investment in broadband networks.
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So if your broadband provider is blocking websites, you have no recourse.
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Overblown rhetoric is finally down, and broadband investment and speeds are up.
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The company's 53G home broadband service will initially be available in London.
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Reclassification of broadband will do more than wreak havoc on net neutrality.
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About 45 percent of Mexicans have mobile broadband subscriptions, regulator IFT says.
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And forget about ensuring that citizens have access to high-quality broadband.
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This economic empowerment is being enhanced through the power of mobile broadband.
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It's not clear how affordable the new domestic broadband connections will be.
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Smartphones will spread, broadband will improve and online payments should become simpler.
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It will initially be available only to subscribers with Xfinity broadband service.
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Kajeet provides educational broadband services to 300 school districts across 41 states.
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On broadband privacy, for example, Pai has consistently advocated for FTC oversight.
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We say in the 21st century every rural home should get broadband.
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One is increasing mobile and broadband access in populations around the world.
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Saying that investment in broadband infrastructure has decreased since the 2015 order.
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Deutsche Glasfaser is a privately funded company that builds fiber broadband networks.
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Dunstone's broadband may be good value for money; his company currently isn't.
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It owns the number one mobile and broadband providers in the country.
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UK Broadband sells wireless data capacity, equipment, and services on its network.
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Mergers make sense when negotiating for better distribution deals with broadband carriers.
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Mashable: This isn't the first time digital/broadband content has been eligible.
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Consolidated is a broadband and business communications provider in 230 U.S. states.
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In fact, our Broadband business in the quarter was up 6%, 7%.
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And for the first time, half of seniors have broadband at home.
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Headlines Virgin seeks broadband edge on BT with gigabit speed pledge on.ft.
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Even there, speeds were far from broadband: 1503 Mbps download, 0.79 upload.
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Fewer than 21.4 percent of residents don't have access to broadband internet.
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Congressional Republicans are moving against the Federal Communications Commission's broadband privacy rules.
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Comcast XfinityWhen it comes to the U.S.' biggest broadband provider, it's tricky.
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That's exactly what you can do with BT's Superfast Fibre 2 broadband.
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The lower altitude will bring an advantage to broadband users, SpaceX explained.
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In all, SpaceX has FCC approval to launch nearly 12,000 broadband satellites.
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Widespread broadband adoption across the U.S. is important for our national competitiveness.
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"Our new approach injected tremendous uncertainty into the broadband market," he added.
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This includes focusing on new revenue streams such as mobile and broadband.
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The fight over the FCC's broadband privacy rules is also heating up.
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The billboards are targeting members who voted to repeal broadband privacy rules.
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That means telecom, broadband and cable companies may be on the upswing.
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The decision is a win for private-sector providers of broadband internet.
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Our home computer had recently been upgraded from dial-up to broadband.
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Now, we know what SpaceX might call its new broadband product: Starlink.
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Data shows community broadband often provides better, cheaper service than private ISPs.
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The ruling does not bode well for the FCC's municipal broadband plans.
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The average broadband speed in South Korea was reported as 26.7 Mbps.
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President Obama also called for the strictest possible mandates on broadband providers.
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Earlier this month, she touted the merger's promise of expanding broadband access.
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It's basically as slow as home internet was before high-speed broadband.
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WaveDivision is based in Kirkland, Washington and focuses on the broadband industry.
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New technologies are increasingly making broadband access more available to remote locations.
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Undoing that would cede authority over broadband providers back to the FTC.
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British politics could do with a healthy debate about its broadband needs.
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Their critics have disputed such numbers of lost investment in broadband infrastructure.
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No. The FCC broadband order was a step backward for consumer privacy.
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Incentives are needed for projects with unclear economics such as rural broadband.
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Some towns, like Williamstown, Ky. (population 3,900), received a federal broadband grant.
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The biggest hurdle to universal broadband is cost, not availability of service.
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Lack of access to broadband remains a major issue on tribal lands.
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The company had added 330,000 broadband subscribers in the year-earlier period.
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West Virginia's Broadband Enhancement Council includes legislators, agency heads and community leaders.
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"We are not seeing a decline in broadband infrastructure investment," he responded.
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Libraries and schools could add to this growing network of free broadband.
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Broadband access is the second major component for growing software jobs nationwide.
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Today, 34 million Americans lack broadband internet access, mostly in rural areas.
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Lisa R. Youngers is President and CEO of the Fiber Broadband Association.
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But he didn't specify how much money he would allocate to broadband.
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Still, Thune says the bill will boost the expansion of mobile broadband.
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The FCC hosts a conference call on broadband infrastructure at 1 p.m.
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Tax changes, however, may not move the broadband needle in rural areas.
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"The Rural Electrification Act of the 21st century is broadband," she said.
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Naturally, as the broadband landscape evolves, the report must evolve with it.
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Because you're still missing ... AT&T is a wireless and broadband provider.
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In rural areas, more than half the population doesn't have broadband access.
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USTelecom said Pai's move would boost broadband network investment, expansion and upgrades.
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Certain companies have specifically focused on bringing broadband internet to rural America.
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Without fast broadband service, these customers won't expand the companies' user base.
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Qualcomm provides chips to carrier networks to deliver broadband and mobile data.
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Unfortunately, it's an idea that broadband providers have been desperately fighting against.
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Broadband providers such as Comcast, Verizon and AT&T support Pai's efforts.
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It's depressed investment in building and expanding broadband networks and deterred innovation.
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Trump signed the repeal of the FCC's broadband privacy protections on Monday.
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But municipal broadband experts say the argument has no basis in fact.
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It's the first study to causally link broadband access to sleep deprivation.
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So why haven't more towns and cities building their own broadband networks?
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Let's not just say it's about broadband providers, a handful of them.
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"We don't really have broadband coverage across the county," Mr. Koontz said.
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So what was Pai's rationale for halting the broadband data security rule?
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They say there's no evidence that the Obama rules slowed broadband investment.
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Parts of the town have yet to be connected to broadband internet.
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The two firms dominate South Africa's wireless broadband market, controlling around 70%.
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Landlines, cellular networks, and broadband internet have all been shut, he said.
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So there are plenty of options when it comes to EE broadband.
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Now broadband networks are seeing similar growth over the course of weeks.
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But in this era of smartphones and broadband, the shackles are off.
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Energy and Commerce is also expected to contribute a section on broadband.
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The FCC has never come up with a baseline for mobile broadband.
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Microsoft also plans to step up its investment into broadband expansion projects.
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It isn't sufficient to assume that broadband providers are monopolists or duopolists.
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Rural broadband has become a popular issue among 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.
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Predictably, investment in broadband access rose right alongside the internet's burgeoning capabilities.
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The broadband internet ecosystem continues to develop at such an astonishing pace.
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One target could be the Lifeline broadband subsidy for low-income households.
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Broadband companies, privacy experts said, occupy a different position than internet companies.
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Just how valuable data collection may be for broadband companies is uncertain.
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Combined, the two providers enjoy a duopoly over New York City broadband.
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Three decades on, broadband is once again a hot-button election issue.
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It hopes to blanket the globe in cheap, high-speed broadband connectivity.
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Well, I'll at least start with let's eliminate the broadband gap. Yes.
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Without broadband coverage, these Americans are tied to the mobile-only Internet.
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ACT Broadband warned users about connectivity issues for at least a day.
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Such efforts wouldn't exist if consumers were happy with their broadband service.
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Joe Biden, have similar proposals about building out rural broadband access and
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EDT: The Open Technology Institute hosts a talk on boosting broadband competition.
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REALITY IS YOU NEED BROADBAND, YOU NEED THE FASTEST INTERNET, BEST WIFI.
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The problem is – building and operating broadband networks is expensive and complex.
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The company was relatively late to realise the potential of broadband services.
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Broadband companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast immediately supported the plan.
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Broadband access was a big issue in this month's general election campaign.
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The broadband companies insisted that they, too, were for an open internet.
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The conservatives and SPD both want to increase spending to expand broadband.
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Neutral broadband access is a cash cow; why would they kill it?
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She's running on better broadband access and a higher minimum wage, too.
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Almost every state has a broadband deployment plan, Minnesota foremost among them.
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But to go online, you have to contract with a broadband provider.
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Likewise, the privacy and broadband rate regulation proposals create new problems too.
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They cancelled cable recently to boost the size of their broadband pipe.
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Do all Canadians have a right to affordable, high-speed broadband internet?
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The company started using Intel's broadband modem chips in the iPhone 7.
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When he and his colleagues set out to write the National Broadband Plan in 2009, Levin said, most US households had no more than two options for broadband service — usually a cable company and a local telephone company.
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Not only are FCC broadband maps historically terrible and inaccurate, the agency doesn't collect or share US broadband pricing data, resulting in Pai's fellow FCC Commissioners wondering how you're supposed to fix a problem you don't actually understand.
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A new FCC report released this week insists that there's little wrong with the broadband industry, and downplays the competition and broadband deployment issues that have plagued the U.S. telecom sector for the better part of two decades.
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Pay-TV and broadband group Sky said it attracted 177,00 new customers in its third quarter, including 46,000 broadband additions in Britain and Ireland, helping revenue rise 5 percent for the first nine months, in line with forecasts.
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At least one million of those connections will be in competition with another high-speed broadband provider in the market served, bringing innovation and new choices for consumers, and demonstrate the viability of one broadband provider overbuilding another.
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The Federal Communications Commission today granted SpaceX a license to operate an array of broadband internet satellites, marking the first time the government agency has given the green light for a US-licensed low-Earth orbit broadband service.
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FCC 'looking into' reported error throwing broadband deployment numbers off by millions The statistics in the report are based on forms filled out by broadband providers, which seem to go unchecked even in the case of massive outliers.
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"Broadband is a great equalizing force for creating jobs, leveling the playing field, and increasing opportunity," Klobuchar said in a statement, adding that the bill would give lawmakers the data necessary to make informed policy decisions on broadband.
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Those claims are often propped up by the FCC's broadband availability map, which despite its $300 million price tag and recent relaunch, still dramatically overstates broadband availability, speeds, and the number of actual competitors in any given market.
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Users looking to confirm the FCC's rose-colored-glasses approach to measuring broadband need only go check out the agency's $350 million national broadband map, which routinely hallucinates both competitors and the speeds they're able to offer consumers.
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An estimated 750 communities (and counting) have explored some variety of public-broadband option, says Christopher Mitchell, director of community broadband networks for the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a nonprofit advocating for local solutions for sustainable development.
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For example, legislation has been introduced in the House and Senate, the Improving Broadband Access for Veterans Act of 2017, requiring the FCC to produce a report that would specifically examine veterans' access to broadband in rural areas.
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Labour plans to nationalise Openreach - the fixed-line network arm of the country's biggest broadband and mobile phone provider - as well as parts of BT Technology, BT Enterprise and BT Consumer to create a "British Broadband" public service.
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Sky TV and broadband bundles are where the best deals and discounts can be found, but Sky is still competitively priced if you're just after a standard broadband package to cover your home in consistent and reliable WiFi.
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Democrats in Congress have also introduced legislation called the "Community Broadband Act" that would preempt anti-municipal broadband state laws, but there's virtually no chance such a bill would pass while Republicans control both the House and Senate.
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The National Broadband Plan is interesting to review today beyond simply the numerical benchmarks for broadband expansion or what gaps in rural areas need to be closed when market forces are unlikely to do so on their own.
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Broadband Now, a company that tracks U.S. broadband availability and speed, told Motherboard that six of the biggest U.S. cities by population have seen little to no change in median speed test results from the past 11 weeks.
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It is one of two federal agencies charged with subsidizing rural broadband: The Federal Communications Commission provides about $8.8 billion per year in broadband subsidies (rural, tribal and low income) with at least $4.6 billion earmarked for rural.
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Telecom Italia (TIM) is considering an option to merge its optic-fiber broadband unit, Flash Fiber, with rival Open Fiber as it looks for ways to create a national broadband network, two sources familiar with the matter said.
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That's why, over the past few decades, the most severe and destructive broadband lobbying has happened at the state level, as incumbent internet operators have found it easier to get state and local level policies against municipal broadband.
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The GOP bill to let broadband companies sell your data will likely pass The GOP bill to let broadband companies sell your data will likely pass Internet privacy rules just got a step closer to being rolled back.
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And Verizon and the fire department engaged in a seven month discussion over whether Verizon ought to be throttling the fire department's broadband in the middle of huge forest fires and eventually what Verizon said was they would stop throttling the broadband if the fire department paid more than double of what they were paying before for broadband and the fire department had no place to go.
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Among other things, the proposal would set rules establishing when broadband companies need to obtain "affirmative 'opt-in' consent" for certain uses of consumer data; require broadband companies to provide customers with "clear, conspicuous and persistent notice" about what information they can collect, use and share with third parties; and put in place "common-sense data breach notification requirements" to encourage broadband companies to protect customer data.
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These include encouraging broadband competition and cracking down on monopoly abuses; fostering the development of pre-paid wired internet services (such as that recently announced by Comcast); ensuring that affordable, stand-alone broadband service is available to consumers; policing ISPs for discriminatory credit-check practices; and encouraging broadband deployment in low-income and underserved areas, particularly in rural communities, not just in wealthy or predominantly White areas.
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The Singapore spectrum win will enable TPG to diversify its revenues away from its Australian fixed-broadband services, which have been facing margin pressure as TPG transitions from a copper-based infrastructure to a national broadband network in Australia.
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Public interest groups say the need to expand the Lifeline program to broadband has become an urgent national priority due to the millions of Americans who lack broadband access, primarily because they can't afford the cost of monthly service.
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And Germany is lagging comparable countries when it comes to fibre broadband connections, which accounted for less than 2 percent of all broadband subscriptions in 2016, compared with an average of 21 percent in developed countries, OECD data shows.
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When the previous FCC approved the merger of Charter and Time Warner Cable, it imposed a requirement that Charter provide broadband service to 1 million homes where other ISPs were operating to promote desperately needed competition for fixed broadband.
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These definitions of what constitutes broadband coverage means they can say they're supporting huge swaths of America without actually supporting it and claim major subsidies from a government that uses the same loose definition of what constitutes broadband coverage.
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LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - British broadband operator TalkTalk said on Wednesday it added 20,000 broadband customers on its network in its first quarter while churn fell to 1.2 percent, helped by take-up of its fixed low price plans.
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Sky's satellite service is well entrenched in Italy, 13 years after it entered the market, but take-up of broadband services is notoriously poor in a country which has the worst usage of fixed broadband in the European Union.
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The question for Starry is, has the technology improved enough in the last two decades to compete with wireline broadband in terms of reliability, and has the customer base for broadband expanded enough for the business model to flourish.
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Thirty-nine percent of rural Americans had no access to home broadband in 2016 (compared with 4 percent of folks in urban areas), because big telcos say it's too expensive to build affordable fiber-optic broadband in the countryside.
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At the federal level, the Consolidated Appropriations Act that passed in March includes $600 million for a new rural broadband pilot program, and both the administration and Congress have called for broadband to be included in an infrastructure bill.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 15 (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Friday it had approved 2.6 billion euros ($2.9 billion) of public funding for the Irish National Broadband Plan, to bring high-speed broadband services in areas poorly connected in Ireland.
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Jonathan Spalter is president and CEO of USTelecom, the nation's broadband association, which brings members of the telecom industry together to reduce barriers to investment and build a network infrastructure that encourages and supports broadband connectivity for all Americans.
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Labour said it would nationalize Openreach - the fixed-line network arm of the country's biggest broadband and mobile phone provider - as well as parts of BT Technology, BT Enterprise and BT Consumer to created a "British Broadband" public service.
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Mexico also lagged its Latin American peers in expanding mobile broadband service to all its citizens, falling behind Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and even Venezuela, according to 2014 figures from the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, a United Nations initiative.
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Broadband access activists are quick to point out that a municipal network doesn't make sense for every community, and indeed there are many models that work, including public-private partnerships and incentives for new broadband investment by private companies.
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Pai also understands if the FCC encourages competitive broadband-facilities investment, the FCC is promoting real market competition based on competing technologies, network capabilities and business models; and on meeting different consumer needs, means, wants, and uses of broadband.
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Meanwhile, U.S. broadband is rated mediocre at best at nearly every metric that matters thanks not only to a lack of broadband competition — but the well-lobbied politicians and revolving door regulators eager to defend the profitable status quo.
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It was fascinating, and that we were just like, this is just, why do we have the most lagging, this is broadband, in the days of broadband access, and it was really interesting to see what held it back.
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Reliance has been testing its broadband service in some cities, offering what it says is faster internet connectivity than regular broadband where speed is less as the fiber reaches only up to the building and not directly into homes.
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The Chamber of Commerce also voiced its opposition to the Title II provisions in a joint letter to the FCC on Tuesday, arguing that broadband investment has decreased since the FCC was given regulatory authority over broadband providers Sen.
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So if Verizon throttles your broadband, there's nothing they can do about it.
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He's effectively saying that US broadband policy should be dictated by AT&T.
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But your wireless company and in-home broadband provider could learn much more.
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First, it has to figure out how to become a nationwide broadband company.
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To Fiber's team, Time Warner's broadband was a rip-off — slow and overpriced.
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Several broadband providers, including Comcast and Verizon, now say they support Congressional action.
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Only if this ballot measure passes can they start to consider municipal broadband.
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Lufthansa already offers broadband onboard all its 107 Lufthansa-branded long-haul aircraft.
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Rather, Facebook hopes to provide reliable connectivity to places that lack broadband infrastructure.
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A fourth, shorter report regarding methodology in improving broadband networks was ordered nullified.
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