The Communications Workers of America sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in early December urging them to stimulate investment in broadband infrastructure as part of a comprehensive economic recovery and job creation program." Read More »
A broadband-based system - called Telehealth - that allows health care professional to monitor patients remotely is being brought to British nursing homes. Read More »
The United States ranks 8th place out of 26 countries in the percentage of "high-speed Internet" connections, countries according to Akamai's new State of the Internet report. Read More »
The percentage of total broadband subscribers in the United States who are connected with fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) or fiber-to-the-building technology is just a fraction of the world leaders', according to June's Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Rankings. Read More »
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has released its latest international broadband statistics and the findings remain grim for the United States. Read More »
The Finnish government has announced plans for universal broadband access across Finland assuring that no person will be further than a mile and a half away from a broadband Internet connection of at least 100 megabits per second (Mbps). Read More »
Akamai Technologies has released its second quarterly State of the Internet report, which ranks countries and states based on the percentage of their population who connect to the Internet at a speed greater than 5 mbps. By this measure, the U.S. comes in sixth place, with only 26 percent of Americans able to connect at these speeds. Read More »
The United States could learn a little something from Australia. The land down under is now above the United States in terms of connectivity with their creation of an ambitious national broadband policy. Read More »
The European Union Commission recently outlined its strategy to boost investment in fiber optic networks across Europe and bring high speed Internet access to those who have so far been left behind. Read More »
InRich.com has put out a call to readers urging them to take the Speed Matters Speed Test. The news site will report the results to its readers and at the same time help collect data that will be included in Speed Matters' second annual state-by-state Internet speed report later this summer. Read More »
