People in Winthrop, Iowa and several nearby towns are mad about the price of their Internet service, and we can’t blame them. The East Buchanan Telephone Cooperative (EBTC) offers DSL Internet at ...

When AT&T purchased DirecTV, merger conditions imposed by the Federal Communications Commission required the ISP to offer Internet service for either $5 or $10 a month to people with low incomes. But ...

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. “We find that the current speed benchmark ...

We really do have to give AT&T's marketing team credit for this one. When they had to come up with a clever way to pitch their company's less-than-blazing 3Mbps U-Verseservice to consumers, they put ...

Comcast plans to expand consumer trials for a 3mbps high-speed Internet service, the latest step in the cable giant's effort to double the speed of its standard cable modem product. The new 30-day ...

Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, broadband, and moving. Prior to joining CNET, Joe led MyMove's moving coverage and reported on broadband policy, the digital divide, and ...

I think we can all agree that a 4Mbps download is not 'broadband' Internet, at least as most would define it. That's how the FCC currently sees broadband, but FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler agrees with us, ...

The average global internet connection speed dropped 14 percent to 2.3Mbps in the last quarter of 2011, according to Akamai’s latest “State of the Internet” report. The average global internet ...

Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) company has said it is targeting fixed-wireless congestion at priority cells where speeds are less than 3Mbps during peak periods, with nine towers ...