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It isn't easy being a cable and Internet service provider these days. Consumers are turning to cheaper options, and they're tired of paying for channels they never watch. Networks are demanding more money. Add in performance issues, it's no surprise cable companies and wireless carriers among the country's most hated companies.

Netflix, the largest video-streaming company in the world, has been tracking the download speeds of North American broadband ISPs. On Thursday, it posted a chart of its findings: On average, ISPs in Canada handily beat their U.S. counterparts.

EarthLink will acquire Southeastern telecom company ITC DeltaCom in a deal valued at $516 million, the Internet service provider announced Friday. Earthlink views the acquisition as an opportunity to grow its corporate business while reducing the cost of offering consumers Internet service.

One in four web users say they doubt that their Internet connection is always as fast as the service provider advertises, according to a recent Federal Communications Commissions survey. Now, to see whether the broadband connections widely described as "blazing fast" in advertisements are indeed...

Google already provides many of us with email addresses and phone numbers, but are you ready for Google to become your ISP? If the new Google ultra high speed Internet connection trial goes well, you might be able to enjoy 1 GB per second Internet connections to your home and all at what they are...

So you've discovered that you can watch a huge variety of television programs over the internet, and this has caused to you to consider canceling your cable television service. It should come as no surprise that internet service providers that are also cable television suppliers are working on a...

This series explores aspects of America that may soon be just a memory -- some to be missed, some gladly left behind. From the least impactful to the most, here are 25 bits of vanishing America. When I was growing up, any attempt to hop on the Internet was met with the tell-tale squeaks and...