Keeping you up to date with the most important wires coming in to your house. http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/ http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/images/foilogo.gif http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/ 130 64 Targeting the news that matters for the insurance companies you use. According to leaked information T-Mobile has plans to impose usage caps on their customers which will impose further charges. Until now the company has simply throttled those customers who use more than their monthly broadband limit. As of August 13 customers can expect 10 cents per MB to be added to their bill for every megabyte o... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201108112.php 11 Aug 2011 10:15:00 GMT The FCC has released figures which show that some Internet service providers are delivering speeds which are only 80% of those they advertise. During peak times the result can be even worse than this. The FCC hired research company SamKows who asked 9,000 volunteers to to monitor the daily performance of their networks. This is the... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201108042.php 04 Aug 2011 10:15:00 GMT It has been announced this week by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack that rural telecommunications companies are to receive almost $192 million in loans to develop broadband projects for rural areas in eight states. The loans are coming from The Department of Agriculture's Telecommunications Infrastructure Loan Program and are aime... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201107282.php 28 Jul 2011 10:15:00 GMT A study by research company SNL Kagan has indicated that around 4% of US households will have substituted Internet video for their cable, satellite or telco TV services by the end of the year. This represent 4.5 million homes, which is 2 million more than the figures from 2010. They also expect that this figure will rise to 10% or ... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201107212.php 21 Jul 2011 10:15:00 GMT A list of the 19 most hated US companies has been compiled by The Atlantic with information from the American Customer Satisfaction survey. Among the banks, power companies and airlines, telecoms companies feature heavily. In fact Time Warner Cable came in third, while Comcast reached fourth most hated. ATandT Mobility, Charter Commu... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201107142.php 14 Jul 2011 10:15:00 GMT A study carried out by the Columbia Institute for Tele-information has discovered that US service providers still have a long way to go before they have realized their ambitious plans. The report states that if ATandT and Verizon were to reach their goals for broadband, at least 50 million homes in the US would get speeds of 10Mbps o... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201107072.php 07 Jul 2011 10:15:00 GMT A study released this week by VIOP provider BroadSoft Inc. has found that 42% of all global mobile network operators are currently trialling or deploying an LTE network. In addition another 34% have plans to do so in the future. One third of those questioned said that they expect handsets capable of using the LTE network to be avai... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201106302.php 30 Jun 2011 10:15:00 GMT Despite the ATandT protestations that their merger with T-Mobile would result in job creation it seems to already be having the opposite effect. The Wall Street Journal has this week pointed out that even though the deal is not due to be closed until March of next year, some T-Mobile independent store operators are starting to close ... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201106232.php 23 Jun 2011 10:15:00 GMT Despite caps being put on data usage by providers, the companies involved are still showing that they can offer faster services. Comcast is due to demonstrate a 1Gb service this week at the Cable Trade Show. In addition they will show a service which has upload and download speeds of 100Mbps. This symmetrical service could be usefu... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201106162.php 16 Jun 2011 10:15:00 GMT ATandT are to be forced to refund $1 billion in incorrectly collected taxes. It has been found that the company violated the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which bans taxing Internet access by collecting taxes on smartphone plans, laptop connection cards and other prepay data devices which help people connect to the Internet. ATandT have ag... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201106092.php 09 Jun 2011 10:15:00 GMT As part of their condition of their merger with NBC, Comcast has started to offer the $10 broadband packages as it was required to do. The packages need to be offered to any household with an income of less than $20,000 a year. The Internet Essentials package will be available from this fall and every home where children are allowe... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201106022.php 02 Jun 2011 10:15:00 GMT A new study has indicated that almost half of all US households do not meet the broadband goals as set out by the National Broadband Plan. The study from Connected Nation is based on a tool known as The Broadband Readiness Index which assesses the infrastructure for the entire US. The National Broadband Plan states that there shoul... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201105262.php 26 May 2011 10:15:00 GMT The American Customer satisfaction Index has been released this week and the results show that Sprint are now at the top of the rankings for wireless service, just in front of Verizon. However ATandT will not be impressed with their ranking. Both ATandT and T-Mobile have seen a decline in customer satisfaction since the takeover of T-M... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201105192.php 19 May 2011 10:15:00 GMT A new browser app developed by Georgia Tech could allow users to make better use of their broadband connection. It could also ensure that providers are keeping to their speed promises. The Kermit app which was unveiled this week could help users to check whether their broadband is being throttled or when caps on usage are being dep... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201105122.php 12 May 2011 10:15:00 GMT A study carried out at multichannel News has found that 56% of all of the US is under a broadband capping system of some description. With ATandT announcing their capping system this week and the fact that they have a huge proportion of customers in the US, the numbers have just increased dramatically. ISPs have claimed that most of ... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201105052.php 05 May 2011 10:15:00 GMT Letters have been sent to Congress this week by wireless carriers defending the way they collect and store location data. The providers argue that they use the information to keep their network working correctly and to provide location based services. They point out that they do no sell or rent this information and that they are ca... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201104292.php 29 Apr 2011 10:15:00 GMT ATandT have this week submitted a 100 page justification of their deal to acquire T-Mobile to the FCC. The document insists that the deal is extraordinary and that it will not reduce competition. It also hints that T-Mobile is not very important in the industry saying that T-Mobile made a late transition to 3G at a time when other pr... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201104252.php 25 Apr 2011 10:15:00 GMT Despite major spending cuts in other areas, the Obama administration has insisted it will continue the roll-out of broadband aggressively. In an address at George Washington University the President said that the government will not sacrifice core investments which are needed to create jobs. New broadband access will be part of thi... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201104142.php 14 Apr 2011 10:15:00 GMT Despite the good news that Kansas City will be the test location for the new Google fiber to the home experiment, Google has made it very clear that there will be only a few new jobs created as a result. The network is expected to cover between 50,000 and 500,000 users giving them speeds of 1GB by 2012. Matt Dunne from Google has m... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201104072.php 07 Apr 2011 10:15:00 GMT Google has chosen Kansas city as the first to take advantage of their 1GB fiber to the home test. They have pointed out that this is simply the start of their project and that more cities will be chosen at a later date. More than 10000 cities had applied to be the testing ground for their fiber project. Kansas City can expect to se... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201103312.php 31 Mar 2011 10:15:00 GMT Comcast has been urging its employees to do their bit to avoid the company being voted as "the worst company in America" in this years Consumerist poll. Comcast won the coveted award last year and does not want a repeat. They are therefore asking employees to stuff online ballot boxes by voting with a number of different devices. T... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201103242.php 24 Mar 2011 10:15:00 GMT The FCC are thought to be close to approving a merger between Qwest Communications International Inc and CenturyLink Inc. The merger has been given a list of conditions which have to be met to ensure approval, however these are limited and are mostly voluntary. These include offering a timetable for upgrading subscriber broadband s... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201103172.php 17 Mar 2011 10:15:00 GMT Despite the fact that wi-fi is 30% slower than fixed broadband, it seems that most people are happy to trade the speed for the convenience. A study by Epitro has tested 14,000 connections across Europe and in the US and found the speed difference. The company said they were surprised that such a difference existed but that people a... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201103102.php 10 Mar 2011 10:15:00 GMT Research from the Leichtman Research group has shown that cable companies in the US are offering their customers a better broadband speed than their telecoms competitors and that they also control more of the market. The top cable companies gained 68% of those who entered the broadband market last year with 2.3 million new subscrib... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201103032.php 03 Mar 2011 10:15:00 GMT Despite being unable to get Internet providers to upgrade their service to fiber, some rural communities are being forced to give up efforts to build their own networks. Some of these community networks offer better speeds than companies such as ATandT, Time Warner Cable and Centurylink were able to provide. These providers have neve... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201102242.php 24 Feb 2011 10:15:00 GMT The latest data from Instat has shown that the average broadband connection in the US is now 9.54 Mbps. This compares to 3.8Mbps is 2007 and 7.12Mbps in 2009. Despite this increase in performance, the cost of subscribing to these connections increased by just 4% between 2009 and 2010; however this does not take into account the fee... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201102172.php 17 Feb 2011 10:15:00 GMT President Obama has set a goal of rolling out high speed broadband to 98% of the US within the next five years. The plan which will detail exactly how this will be achieved will be released later this week. He believes that it will allow rural communities to compete globally and will also reduce the deficit by $10 billion. It is th... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201102102.php 10 Feb 2011 10:15:00 GMT A recent poll conducted by Wakefield Research has discovered that 32% of Americans admit to tapping into a wi-fi network which is not theirs. This is an increase from the 18% from a 2008 poll. 40% also said that they wold be more likely to trust someone with their house key than with their wi-fi connection password. One quarter eve... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201102032.php 03 Feb 2011 10:15:00 GMT President Obama has delivered his State of the Union speech this week and outlined how technology will be used to make the US more competitive. The National Wireless Initiative was announced. This is aimed at encouraging network providers to deploy high speed networks to 98% of the US population by 2016. There would also be an incr... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201101272.php 27 Jan 2011 10:15:00 GMT Verizon is offering people who recently purchased a phone a $200 rebate if they switch to the Verizon iPhone when it is released. They say that many customers may have wanted to buy an iPhone but couldn't because they did not know when it would be released. Now that the date has been set Verizon are happy to offer money back. The a... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201101202.php 20 Jan 2011 10:15:00 GMT Recent statistics from In-Stat have shown that the worldwide subscriber rate of broadband is likely to slow down over the next four years. The report shows that the number of consumers and businesses with broadband increased to 763 million in 2010, following 25% growth in both 2007 and 2009. However it has been estimated that this ... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201101132.php 13 Jan 2011 10:15:00 GMT Qualcomm is set to buy WiFi specialist Atheros in a $3.1 billion deal. The transaction has been agreed by the boards of each company and should be complete by half way through this year. Qualcomm is hopeful that they will be able to expand the use of their products by making the purchase. They should be able to allow their customer... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201101062.php 06 Jan 2011 10:15:00 GMT The planned merger between Qwest and CenturyLink has reached agreement after Washington state officials placed conditions on the deal. The companies have agreed to invest $80 million in broadband infrastructure over the next five years and will freeze rates on some business services for three years. In addition the companies will a... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201012302.php 30 Dec 2010 10:15:00 GMT The FCC has passed new guidelines for broadband in a move which has been branded as being a two tier system. It is thought that Internet providers will be able to develop fast lines for services like video and slower ones for general services. Mobile phone carriers have been exempted from these rules however, and will be able to ch... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201012232.php 23 Dec 2010 10:15:00 GMT Google has announced this week that they need more time to decide which cities will get their super fast broadband service. The way that they select the city has not changed and the company has simply stated that they need more time to decide. The level of interest has been beyond their expectations and they have 1,100 communities ... http://www.fiberopticinternet.com/news/201012162.php 16 Dec 2010 10:15:00 GMT