Supply and demand only makes broadband worth it to a point. Market wants a cheaper price.

Vint Cerf, one of the Internet's key inventors and an advocate for the idea that the government should be more active in expanding broadband, suspects that many more dial-up users would be interested in going high-speed if they had a…

A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don’t have high-speed Internet access.

Pew's telephone study of 2,251 U.S. adults, including 1,553 Internet users, was conducted April 8 to May 11 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2 percentage points. The error margins for subgroups are higher — plus or…

Australia’s government is backing an ambitious plan to build a new fiber-to-the-node network that will reach 98 percent of Australians and offer a minimum 12Mbps to all. But just how open will it be? Google has some thoughts.

The US now sticks out for ditching its line-sharing rules and for having no national broadband push or universal service regime for broadband. States like California, Kentucky, and North Carolina are hashing out their own solutions, and…

“The latest NETGEAR open source wireless router is the WGR614L: the open wireless router platform of choice for serious developers and newer users alike. Flexible and powerful, the WGR614L can support many popular third party firmware applications, including DD-WRT, Tomato, and Sveasoft.”

So, you've "bricked" your WGR614L, either through too much tinkering or just a fluke. You may have tried tftp through your network cable, you just can't get a ping or for any reason can't get it going again. Rather…

Japanese broadband operator NTT Communications plans to begin implementing a new upload limit in August. If you’ve got to have caps, 30GB per day is probably doable.

This kind of extremely generous usage cap is made possible because of Japan's fiber-centric broadband infrastructure. Here in the US, fiber installations are few and far between, leaving most of us with subpar speeds and service….

Mozilla is preparing for the official release of Firefox 3, which will land on June 17. Ars looks at add-on compatibility and some early plans for Firefox 3.1.

Many readers have asked about the status of Firefox 3 add-on compatibility and some have indicated that they won't be ready to upgrade until their favorite add-ons are supported. Mozilla Product Manager Alex Polvi has written a…

When you first start out, the Twitter Web site alone is enough for simple posts and following a few friends. But once your network of followers and those you’re following expands, checking back to the Web site every 10 minutes is tedious. Here are 12 tools to help sate your Twitter hunger without having to constantly refresh your browser.

Another Adobe AIR-based desktop client for Windows and Mac. Unlike Twhirl, which can connect to multiple accounts and post to multiple social networks, Snitter is all Twitter business. One unique Snitter feature is the ability to create your…

It’s the sort of news that ought to scare the pants off Comcast executives. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has proposed the commission auction off a portion of the 25 megahertz spectrum with a free provision — meaning that whoever licenses the spectrum must provide internet access to people for free.

Free? There is no such thing. If its ad supported then there is an agenda to get people paying for more crap they don't need, that is not FREE. I used to live in the UK where we have the BBC. The BBC is not free it is supported by a licence…

London is one of those few fortunate cities to have a surfeit of telecom competition. From broadband providers to mobile operators, Londoners have a choice. They have decent broadband speeds as well as access to Wi-Fi and 3G networks. And as a result, there has been a big change in their behavior.

Of course, one of the problems with broadband here in the UK, is that it is typically either capped or metered. We usually get a set limit, and once this is used you have to pay extra. I get 50 gig a month at home with my provider, and pay around…

What seemed like a vague industry possibility just a few months ago now seems like an inevitable certainty. Multiple carriers in North America are now either employing or considering monthly caps where users pay per gigabyte should they “over eat.”

Why Not Just Make Gluttons Pay For a Business-Class Tier?

Internet service providers are beginning to roll out the second wave of U.S. broadband services, which are 25 times faster than current broadband offerings.

While the technologies they use differ, Comcast and Verizon have both started offering ultra-high-bandwidth services to select customers that are as much as 25 times faster than today's average broadband speed of 4.8 Mbps, according to…

No Comcast at the FCC's second net neutrality hearing? No biggie. The Commissioners already know what they want to do about the issue, as did Lawrence Lessig and the Christian Coalition of America.

Then Combs laid into Comcast, recapping the Associated Press's determination last year that the ISP blocked transmission of a digital version of the King James Bible. "Unfortunately, in the last six months, we have seen network…

AT&T’s wireless operation plans to move its infrastructure to Long Term Evolution, a high-speed standard that many service providers are expected to adopt.

AT&T is betting that its relative freedom to operate without onerous FCC oversight will let it deploy advanced-generation mobile phone communications relatively quickly. AT&T and Verizon Wireless were the big winners in the recent FCC…

This project will offer 60 million users unlimited high speed Internet connection of 224Mbps (megabits per second) at a cost of only around RM5 (US$1.58) per user per month, which is the fastest and cheapest in the world,? he said. BPL modems use existing electrical power lines to deliver high speed Internet access and data transmission.

Thirdly, a 100-year agreement was exchanged with Nadhlatul Ulama Indonesia and Manhad Islam Hadhari, the Indonesian clients responsible for the network of mosques that will be converted during the BPL project.According to the…