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Can Australia's government really bring fiber to the home?

Can Australia's government really bring fiber to the home?Wonderful for AustraliaJust imagine not having to deal with Comcast, and having real, actual, broadband without a fascist corporation looking at all your packets.Bass ackwardsThat said Australia?s concept?form a government-private sector joint venture and then make it totally private when the network...

Tags: Vertical industries, Broadband Internet, Optical networking, Fiber optics, government, broadband, broadband penetration, FTTH

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

A laptop in every pot?

I just finished reading With state budget surpluses, a windfall for edtech? and I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Aside from the fact that state surpluses are still pretty few are far between here in the Midwest, a number of states across America are starting to once...

Tags: broadband penetration, computer, broadband

Blog posts 2006-04-13

China will have the largest number of broadband users in the world by year-end 2006

At its current growth rate of over 90% per year, China will pass the US in total broadband subscribers by late 2006 to become the largest broadband country in the world. The US has fallen to 19th overall in household broadband penetration, and is in danger of being passed by...

Tags: broadband, broadband penetration

Blog posts 2006-02-06

Broadband penetration is at 1.7% in Ireland

Eurostat has placed Ireland bottom of a league table for broadband saturation levels in Europe, with a penetration rate of just 1.7%.

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, broadband, Eurostat, Broadband penetration

Blog posts 2006-01-16

Broadband states all vote Democrat, dial-up states vote Republican

Leichtman Research Group found that at the beginning of 2005 broadband penetration of households in the US stood at close to 29% nationwide. Significant state-by-state disparities in broadband penetration remain, however. While these disparities are largely related to variations in household income across the states, these differences are strikingly...

Tags: broadband, broadband penetration

Blog posts 2005-11-12

Study: Broadband penetration slowing

Study: Broadband penetration slowingMaybe if someone offered REAL broadband speedsthings would be different. Japan is rolling our gigabit service to homes, and much of the world get 100MB service for the same prices as U.S. citizens play for a paltry 3-6 mb.Do the math ya moron!As penetration exceeds 50%...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, Cyberthreats, broadband, Broadband Penetration

Discussion threads 2005-09-21

US broadband penetration is 28.4% at the end of 2004

In-Stat/MDR forecasts that nearly 70% of US households will have Internet access by the end of this year. The next, and most important step comes from increasing broadband penetration. At the end of 2003, In-Stat/MDR estimates that the US market had reached approximately 20% broadband penetration of all...

Tags: broadband, broadband penetration

Blog posts 2004-10-11

Top US broadband cities: San Diego, Phoenix, Detroit, New York, Sacramento

The top market for broadband penetration was San Diego, at 69.6%. Then it's Phoenix (68.4%), Detroit (67%) and New York (66.8%). Sacramento ranked No. 5 on a list of U.S. cities with the highest residential broadband penetration, compiled by Nielsen//Net Ratings, which studies the online market. In August, 64.9% of...

Tags: broadband

Blog posts 2004-09-16

Europe broadband penetration to reach 41% by 2008

Broadband penetration is currently at 55-60% in Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium. It's 13-15% in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. by the end of 2004, Europe will have 33.5 million broadband subscribers, which means that broadband will reach about 20% of all homes. This figure is projected to climb to...

Tags: broadband

Blog posts 2004-05-28

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Global home broadband booming

from IndonesiaI might understand why Indonesia has only 1 percent penetration rate for home broadband access, its main reason is the high cost of subscribing fee compared to national standard wage. In my estimation, we have to pay more than 80% of our monthly standard wage just to have broadband...

Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Personal finance, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, salary, home broadband

Discussion threads 2009-09-27

IBM, Canonical partner to target Africa netbook market; Upend Microsoft

Their timing is quite goodRight at this moment, the Internet infrastructure in Central Africa is being upgraded with new underwater fiber optic cable links that will ultimately bring Africa's broadband capacity on par with the rest of the world by late 2010. Their timing couldn't be better.Why not red hat...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Divide-and-conquer, netbook, Language Support, Debian, Canonical, Red Hat Inc., Linux, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Can netbook subsidies from wireless companies work for schools?

So Sprint is basically giving away netbooks, Verizon is making them mighty cheap at least to acquire, AT&T offers a variety of deals on netbooks and free access to its network of WiFi hotspots and it seems pretty likely that other smaller wireless carriers will follow suit. The only...

Tags: School District, Netbook, Wireless, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Multitasking parents out-surf business pros 3 to 1 on mobile Internet

Despite having highly-capable smartphones that can take advantage of the Web, business professionals are out-surfed by multitasking parents three to one when it comes to browsing the mobile Internet, according to new data by mobile service provider Novarra. According to Novarra's June "Mobile...

Tags: Mobile Internet, Mobile, Smart Phone, Business Pro, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Should broadband connectivity be a right?

Is it possible to achieve 100% broadband availability and penetration? Should it be a right? Vermonter, inventor, author and Fractals of Change blogger Tom Evslin recently wrote about the real-life challenge to bring broadband to the masses in the state of Vermont and the implications of such...

Tags: Broadband, Vermont, Tom Evslin, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-31

The coming wireline business implosion (and how you'll wind up paying for it)

Is the wired telecom business just as doomed as beleaguered automakers like GM and Chrysler and the newspaper industry? It's quite possible a few years down the line. And this wireline fallout will have ramifications well beyond the usual suspects such as AT&T and Verizon. Simply put, cutting the...

Tags: Bailout, Business, Craig Moffett, Finance, Financial Planning, Free Trade, Larry Dignan, Network, Networking, Personal Finance, Phone, Taxes, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Company, Telephony, Verizon Communications Inc., Wireline

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Now this is stimulus

As I sat through a DSL install at one of our schools this morning, I Tweeted my excitement at finally leaving a fractional T1 behind at this particularly remote school. The bandwidth, usually running around 200kbps, has seriously hampered our efforts to roll out e-learning tools, so a 6MBps...

Tags: School, Australia, 6MBps, E-learning, Training And Certification, Network Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-05-14

U.S. ranks highest in world for originating attack traffic in Q4 2008

More attacks traffic on the Internet came from the United States than any other country in the world last quarter, according to a new report from Akamai. The U.S. ranked highest in the percentage of observed attack traffic, defined as unsolicited attempts to connect to unadvertised systems,...

Tags: U.S., Broadband, Akamai Technologies Inc., Mbps, Connection Speed, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-27

Targeted Investment in Broadband Infrastructure: Addressing Key Issues for Revitalizing the United States Economy and Regaining Broadband Leadership

Broadband infrastructure is a major driver of the 21st-century global economy, but the United States has steadily fallen behind other countries in broadband penetration and capabilities. Investment in an infrastructure with high capabilities can turn this trend around - while boosting the economy and generating new jobs. To gain the...

Tags: Broadband, Broadband Infrastructure, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking

White papers 2009-03-26

$3b approved for rural broadband

$3b approved for rural broadbandPhone service?Isn't USF for phone service, not broadband? not sureWAIT??????Isn't the Universal Service Fund supposed to help pay this?The USF has 4 programs including 1 for High Cost, that consumers in all regions of the nation have access to telecommunications services at rates that are affordable...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, USF, broadband, rural broadband

Discussion threads 2009-01-23

The domestic digital divide

The domestic digital divideCanada isn't as bad.....I'm a Canadian living in a rural area... my home has high speed cable.According to http://www.internetworldstats.com/am/ca.htmCanada is a world leader in broadband penetration. We have 85% broadband penetration, and yet we have more rural areas...I wonder, what is it that Canada is doing different...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, domestic digital divide, broadband, digital divide, Canadian Living

Discussion threads 2008-11-13