Major outages are affecting both BT and Talk Talk ISPs in the UK. Cable damage is being blamed on the outages, with only a “small number” of users affected according to BT. More...

The launch of Apple's new integrated television is "imminent", according to analysts Jefferies & Company - who made similar claims a year ago, and again three months ago. More...

The FCC is considering a tax on broadband Internet services that would fund expansion of high-speed Internet access in the country for the 19 million Americans without access. More...

Six weeks after promising to double the speeds of its broadband customers free of charge, Virgin Media's upgrades have begun, with a new website for customers to find out when their upgrade is due. More...

Customers of Virgin Media, one of the UK's leading ISPs, have been frustrated by a nationwide outage, along with the failure of its customer call centres, days after promising to upgrade its service. More...

Virgin Media customers have been given a New Year treat, with the news that their broadband speeds will be doubled (or even tripled) free of charge, with the fastest connections soon reaching 120Mbps. More...

The UK's national cable network confirms plans to deliver free Wi-Fi access across London - to customers and non-customers alike. More...

Most of us can still remember the horrors of dial-up internet: being unable to make a phone call while online; the seemingly endless wait while the modem tried to establish a connection; the pain of... More...

TalkTalk has been voted the worst landline and broadband provider for the second time, as revealed Thursday by Ofcom. The independent telecommunications regulator ran the survey on customer satisfaction levels and found that 23% were... More...

Microsoft, the BBC, British Telecom and Nokia are planning to test out brand new “Wi-Fi on steroids” technology called “White-space broadband”. According to the companies involved, the experiment is set to take place in Cambridge,... More...

Earlier this month AT&T put in new broadband caps on its DSL and U-Verse Internet broadband services. It also started charging its customers overages fees if they go over those fairly small broadband caps. This... More...

As AT&T begins capping Internet usage today, customers of the second largest US broadband provider will finally get a taste of the Net Neutrality wars. The limits are 150GB for DSL users and 250GB for... More...

Last year, Google announced that they would be bringing 1Gb per second fiber to the home broadband to one lucky city in the US. After that announcement, they had over 1,100 cities apply for the... More...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to propose and vote this week on an $8 billion plan that will expand high-speed, fast-access Internet to underserved cities across the United States. The plan will actually... More...

According to Cisco's Visual Networking Index concerning mobile data across the globe, there was 2.6 times more traffic in 2010 over 2009. All of this data came out to be roughly 237 petabytes per month,... More...

Virgin Media has introduced their 100Mb broadband service to another 150,000 homes, adding to the 200,000 already with access. Homes in Pentwyn, Southport, Treforest, Cheshunt and Hatfield are the newest additions to the growing fleet... More...

The UK's sole cable broadband provider, Virgin Media, announced today the start of pre-registration for its 100Mb service, which is to go on sale in December. Ten years ago, Virgin debuted Britain's first broadband service,... More...

Google has announced plans to build an ultra-high speed broadband network at Stanford University’s Residential subdivision. The faculty holds just over 850 staff on the grounds around it and they will have access to some... More...

Over the past five years Internet Service Providers in the U.S. as a whole only saw a 3% increase in revenue according to a study conducted by Mintel. They believe that the revenues have hardly... More...

Virgin Media today announced a free upgrade for its broadband customers. Calling it an 'adrenaline shot', Virgin is aiming to boost upload speeds for customers across its range of broadband speeds. The upgrade has begun to... More...

Google has announced, via their Public Policy Blog, that they are testing broadband using white space from the TV spectrum. They are testing the white space broadband project in Logan, Ohio, a small town in... More...

According to a report released by the FCC this week, US broadband consumers in 2009 were getting half of the download speeds advertised by their service providers. In 2009, the median advertised download speed for... More...

The Liberal-National coalition party has announced its scaled-down version of the $43 billion broadband plan, NBN. The Labor run plan would enable a national fiber-optic network by 2017 that everyone could use; that is if... More...

Akamai released a State of the Internet report for each quarter of the year. Their most recent report for Q4 of 2009 is now available. It shows that the average broadband speed in the US... More...

Market research from US firm TDG claims that more PlayStation 3 owners have their consoles connected to the Internet compared to the Xbox 360 or Nintendo Wii, Neowin has learnt via Eurogamer. The survey of 2000... More...

Virgin Media said on Thursday that it plans to offer 100Mb broadband services to customers by the end of 2010. Virgin claims its customers will be the first to receive broadband speeds "more than 24 times... More...

The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to allow communities to use local schools' broadband internet access during non-operating hours. Many schools receive funds for internet access through the E-rate program. However, the FCC's previous... More...

Web search giant Google and British Telecom are believed to be in talks about creating an ISP based video delivery network that would deliver improvements to the quality of online video by storing popular videos... More...

Finland have recently passed legislation which secures their citizens a "legal right" to broadband. This step forward for Finland has resulted in a right to 1mbps broadband for all homes. This passing of law has... More...

A study looking at the quality of broadband across 66 countries worldwide has found that only nine countries are ready for future demand, with two-thirds meeting the criteria for today's requirements only. The study placed... More...

Revealed this week, a tax increase of 50p may become law for UK taxpayers that will go towards a fund to fuel growing development for the infrastructure of Internet networks throughout Britain. Appearing as part... More...

The UK's new largest home broadband provider will be formed next month with the Carphone Warehouse buying the UK arm of Italian ISP Tiscali for £236 million. Tiscali's future has been in doubt due to... More...

According to an article by the BBC, the UK Government has announced that it will be supporting plans meaning everyone in the UK will have access to at least 2Mbps broadband, by 2012. The plans,... More...

In January, Asus debuted an ultra thin netbook S121 running Windows 7, equipped with 1.33GHz Intel Atom microprocessor, touch mode software on Windows 7 & world's largest 512GB SSD. Now Asus will be offering world's... More...

If you're living in a part of the EU that has yet to be reached by broadband internet access, then help could be at hand from the European Commission. The European Commission is about to... More...

BT has announced plans to bring 40% (10million) of homes in the UK within reach of high speed fibre optic broadband by the year 2012. In a £1.5bn investment plan, the telco has also stated... More...

A complaint lodged by BT about the speeds of Virgin Media's broadband service has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority. The challenge centred around its advertisement "Hate to Wait?", which ran in the... More...

Consumers using an expanding array of broadband services, including movie downloads, video games, online backup, and streaming audio and video, are flooding the nation's broadband pipes with data--and it could cost them. Consumer advocates say... More...

Telecommunications company AT&T Inc. announced today that, starting next month, it will raise the price of its most common broadband Internet services in many of the states where it operates. The $5-per-month hike will apply... More...

Broadband ISP Virgin Media has announced its plans for upgrading customers' broadband systems. Beginning late February customers with a 4Mbit/s service on Virgin Media's 'L' tier package will be upgraded free to a 10Mbit/s service.... More...

Today, an appeals court upheld a 2006 deadlocked decision by the Federal Communications Decision over whether Verizion could deregulate some of its commercial business lines. Under the arcane rules of the FCC, the previous 2-2... More...

While politicians and network providers work out how they can afford to provide the UK with a network capable of delivering super-fast broadband speeds, one company is already doing it - via the sewers. H20... More...

A survey looking at UK broadband services has revealed a downturn in customer satisfaction levels. Customer complaints now outnumber service-related enquiries by 52% to 48%, the study by market research firm JD Power found. According... More...

October 15th is the day mobile operator will become ISP O2 has announced the date that it will launch its broadband service in the UK as October 15th. "The UK broadband market is fuelled by... More...

The UK government is considering intervening in the way broadband is rolled out, in an effort to speed up the deployment of super-fast services. Stephen Timms, Minister for Competitiveness, ordered a summit to look at... More...

The internet is about to become even more ubiquitous, according to analyst firm Juniper Research. In a report released today, analysts predict that nearly one in three mobile subscribers around the world, representing over one... More...

There is a huge gap between advertised broadband speeds and the actual speeds users can achieve, new research from consumer group Which? has shown. A survey by the organisation found that broadband packages promising speeds... More...

Dell has signed a deal with a U.K. mobile phone retailer to distribute free laptops with the purchase of a broadband Internet access subscription, continuing the company's push into the retail market. Starting in September,... More...

The U.S. is lagging behind other industrialized nations in the availability and use of high-speed broadband connections, according to a report released today by the Washington-based Communications Workers of America. The report, based on aggregated... More...

Satellite television provider DirecTV Group Inc. may test delivering high-speed Internet service through power lines in a major U.S. city in the next year, its chief executive said on Monday. DirecTV and others are talking... More...