Latest Internet access Stories
WASHINGTON, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's letter to NTIA Assistant Secretary Larry Strickling on auctioning 1755-1780 MHz band and 1695 to 1710 MHz band, CTIA-The Wireless Association® Vice President of Regulatory Affairs Chris Guttman-McCabe said: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100629/DC28223LOGO-a) "We are pleased to see that Chairman Genachowski has sent a letter to Assistant Secretary Strickling...
Pyramid Research's Sonia Jorge Participates in 7th Meeting of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development BOSTON, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Broadband Commission agreed on a new target designed to spur female access to the power of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Pyramid Research's Research and Consulting Director Sonia Jorge was pleased to participate in the Broadband Commission's Working Group on Gender meeting and work sessions that lead to this...
SumaVision and ZTE Leverage C-DOCSIS Architecture to Provide Fast, Reliable and Interactive Television, Internet and Telecommunication Services BEIJING, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- China Content Broadcasting Network -- News Highlights: OEM and ODM momentum for products that support converged television, broadband Internet and telecommunications services in China with Broadcom's C-DOCSIS technology Operators begin mass deployment of C-DOCSIS EoC terminal products for improved...
LIVERMORE, Calif., March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast, the nation's largest Internet service provider, today announced it is increasing the speeds of two of its most popular XFINITY Internet speed plans, Blast! and Extreme 50, in California* for no additional cost. Customers will enjoy more than twice as fast Internet speeds on multiple devices, allowing them to surf, chat, stream HD movies and TV shows, or game online with double the speed. Also for no additional cost, Comcast...
WASHINGTON, March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In conjunction with the kick-off of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, one of the most online-watched sports events in America, the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA) today released a timeline detailing the evolution of March Madness consumption. Beginning in 1996, the same year that Congress passed a landmark Telecom Act that referenced the Internet just once, the timeline shows how consumer demand for March Madness has...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pavlov Media, one of the nation's largest private providers of broadband services to student housing and multifamily real estate owners, today announced the firm is now providing Internet services at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Research Park. "As the nation's largest private provider of broadband services in student housing, offering bandwidth at Research Park is a natural move for Pavlov Media," said Mark Scifres, CEO...
Larger Shared Data Plans and Data-Only Plans Offer Added Flexibility and Affordability for Businesses and Consumers DALLAS, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* is helping businesses "raise the productivity bar" with expanded choices of shared data plans. Starting March 22, AT&T will offer larger Mobile Share plans, new Mobile Share - Data (only) plans, and new Business Pooled Nation for Data plans. The new plans make it even easier and more affordable to work or play on...
WASHINGTON, March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Steptoe is pleased to announce that Markham Erickson, who brings more than 20 years of experience in Internet law and policy, has joined the firm as a partner in the Telecom, Internet & Media practice. He will be resident in the firm's Washington office. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130314/PH77370 ) Mr. Erickson has helped form two leading Internet coalitions. He serves as general counsel to The Internet Association, a...
AKRON, Ohio, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Skycasters, the industry leader in broadband satellite Internet solutions, announces it now supports the latest in high-speed, high-efficiency IP broadband connectivity for enterprise technology with the iDirect Evolution Series X3 and X5 platform. The Evolution X3 and X5 features iDirect's highly efficient implementation of the DVB-S2 standard (digital video broadcasting-satellite). These next generation satellite routers are ideally...
PARIS, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- New generation of performance-enhanced satellite-based VPN services immediately available across entire KA-SAT coverage in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) and OneAccess, the leading manufacturer of multi-service routers and Carrier Ethernet access devices, have joined forces to develop the first performance-enhanced platform for businesses designed to deliver services operated...
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Image Caption: Schematic showing how DSL works. Credit: Jhbdel/Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) The term DSL or ADSL (a higher speed connection) is the technology of delivering an Internet connection over wires using a local telephone network. A filter is used to block high frequency interference, enabling the user to have access to the Internet as well as use of the phone simultaneously. The rate of data transfer usually ranges from 256 kbps to 40 Mbps downstream (to the customer) and the data...
Image Caption: Phone connector with female socket, used for dial-up Internet access. Credit: Shaddack/Wikipedia Dial-up access is a connection to the Internet using telephone company lines to connect to an Internet Service Provider (ISP). The user connects to an internal or external modem that decodes the data and displays it onto the computer, laptop, or similar device. Often this choice of connection is used where other forms of connections are not available, such as in remote or...
Image Caption: Three 155 Mbps dishes on top of the Oil & Gas Commerce Building, Fort Worth TX. Credit: RockyDallas/Wikipedia Wireless broadband is a technology that gives users a high speed internet connection or a connection to a computer network covering a wide area without the use of a wired connection. Broadband is instant access to the Internet or a network at data rates greater than 1.5 Mbps. Originally wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) could only be accessed in...
An internet service provider or ISP is an organization or company that provides access to the internet through copper wires, phone lines, wireless, or fiber-optic cables. There are two types of ISPs, hosting and transit. The hosting ISP is like a co-location center where it will lease server space to people and smaller businesses. The transit ISP provides a large amount of bandwidth to connect hosting ISPs to access ISPs. The ISP can be community owned providing the service as non-profit...
