Exponential Growth of Mobile Data Due To Proliferation Of Smart Phones
10.19.11
Smartphone users doubled mobile data traffic in just one year. Read More »
Broadband Data Archives
New CWA Report Challenges Critics of AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
10.11.11
New CWA report concludes AT&T/T-Mobile merger will build out broadband and improve service quality more than either company can do alone. Read More »
Idaho Residents Suffer With Alarmingly Slow Internet
09.16.11
For years, Speed Matters has been campaigning for better access to high-speed broadband for all Americans, but a recent story in The New York Times revealed that we still have a long way to go. A study by Pando Networks, a file-sharing company, discovered that residents of Idaho have the overall slowest download speeds in the nation — slower than many poorer nations. Read More »
T-Mobile Call Center Takes Public Subsidies, Then Dumps Workers
09.15.11
T-Mobile has been shedding workers from a central Maine call center, even though the company had accepted millions of tax dollars to create jobs in the state. Keri Evinson, executive vice-president of Local 1400 of the Communications Workers of America, told Maine public broadcasting, that T-Mobile should either deliver the 900 jobs they've promised, or return their public subsidies. Read More »
Government static disrupts a phone connection
09.13.11
A Chicago Tribune editorial on September 12 asked the Department of Justice why it had blocked the AT&T/T-Mobile merger when there's no obvious alternative. Instead, The Tribune wrote, "In its zeal to protect consumers from price increases that may or may not have occurred in the deal's aftermath, government lawyers managed to sandbag not one but two major companies." Read More »
Grim Future for T-Mobile
09.12.11
When the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit to block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, it didn't just stymie AT&T and possibly snuff out hopes for thousands of good, living-wage jobs. It also put struggling T-Mobile, and its parent company, Deutsche Telekom, in an untenable position. Read More »
New CWA Website Exposes Sprint Misinformation
09.08.11
The Communications Workers of America has launched Eye on Sprint, a website that puts Sprint's finances, technology, business, and employment practices under a magnifying glass. It exposes Sprint's self-interest in its attacks on the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. Read More »
With CWA Participation, Wisconsin Region Plans Broadband Growth
08.31.11
Increasing and enhancing broadband development doesn't just take place in Washington. Take, for instance, the Wisconsin Region 9 (Milwaukee-Racine and vicinity) Broadband Planning Team, created by the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, to "create an action plan to address gaps in broadband availability and improve the adoption of available broadband services." Read More »
Internet Data Traffic Set to Quadruple by 2015
08.29.11
According to Cisco's Visual Networking Index for 2011 — a forecast of digital trends and online usage — the Internet is about to become a whole lot busier. Read More »
AT&T/T-Mobile Merger: The Best Chance for Job Security for T-Mobile Workers
08.19.11
If you repeat a made-up falsehood over and over again, will reasonable people start to believe it? That's what the critics of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger are hoping. They've manufactured a fact, claiming that the AT&T/T-Mobile merger will lead to 20,000 layoffs of T-Mobile workers. The problem is: they are just plain wrong. Read More »
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