COVID-19 made broadband access a necessity for many households and further underscored the depth of the digital divide. As the federal government continues programs to provide high-speed Internet to ...

US telecommunications giants AT&T and Verizon have called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not to boost its definition of broadband to 10Mbps from its current benchmark of 4Mbps. In ...

The National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) is back and wants the world to know that the idea of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) raising the definition of broadband to 25 ...

The last time the Federal Communications Commission updated its definition for broadband internet, Mad Men was still airing new episodes on TV. The agency’s minimum broadband speeds—25 megabits per ...

The Federal Communications Commission defines “broadband” Internet as bandwidth of 4Mbps downstream and 1Mbps up. But many Internet services want consumers to use more than that. Netflix, for example, ...

HARRISBURG – Everyone in Pennsylvania has access to broadband – at least, according to the definition set by state lawmakers in the early 2000s. But ask residents of rural areas about their internet ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today finally put a realistic definition on what broadband really is, and all of a sudden the cable companies’ argument that there’s plenty of competition ...

AT&T and Verizon have asked the Federal Communications Commission not to change its definition of broadband from 4Mbps to 10Mbps, saying many Internet users get by just fine at the lower speeds.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made a formal announcement this week confirming what all of us already knew to be true: that piddling download speeds of 4 mega-bit-per-second (Mbps) ...

There’s good news, and not-so-good news. The good news is the number of people accessing the network over broadband continues to increase. The not-so-good news is that the term “broadband” is so broad ...