In a special White House event today, President Trump along with FCC chair Ajit Pai, announced a major push towards 5G deployment as part of the "5G Fast Plan" initiative.
The US House of Representatives just passed the Save the Internet Act of 2019 on a vote of 232-190.
The US government’s most recent broadband statistics from the FCC claims 25 million Americans to be lacking access to a broadband connection.
Big tech's ownership of the internet backbone will have far-reaching, yet familiar, implications, says Tyler Cooper, a broadband policy watcher, and editor at BroadbandNow.
Reports suggest Amazon Inc. is planning to provide broadband internet access worldwide via 3,236 satellites in low earth orbit.
Facebooks says it intends to allow third parties - including local and regional providers - to purchase excess capacity on its fiber.
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reports that the share of high-speed fiber in fixed broadband Internet connections in its member countries has risen to 25%, up from 12% eight years ago.
A new study by Microsoft researchers suggests the actual use of high-speed internet across the US is quite different than those of from the FCC.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is granted permission from U.S. regulators to deploy over 7,000 satellites.
A striking trend revealed in a report to be released next week by the Web Foundation, an organization set up by the inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, indicates that the rate at which the world is getting online has fallen sharply since 2015.
Lobby groups representing U.S. broadband industry today filed a lawsuit against California to stop the state's new net neutrality law.
The Internet Society today announced that it is partnering with Facebook to develop Internet Exchange Points (IXP) throughout Africa.
For the first time in recent Internet history, a new submarine cable carrying live traffic across the South Atlantic was activated, directly connecting South America to Sub-Saharan Africa.
Loon, formerly a Google X project and now an independent Alphabet company, reveals that it successfully transmitted data over a 1000 kilometers (621 miles) via a network of 7 balloons.
China's fiber adoption constituted 80% of global FTTH growth in the past 12 months, according to the latest report from Point Topic. The country has reported a 26 percent annual growth in FTTH connections.
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