high-speed internet

If you're fed up with escalating cable bills, fuzzy satellite TV reception, and unresponsive customer service, Google is starting to think inside the box: The world's leading search engine may be ready to launch a broadband television service as early as next year.

America may have invented the Internet, but more than 100 million American lack access to broadband and its accompanying economic benefits, according to a new report from the Federal Communications Commission. Some 26 million Americans in largely rural areas across the nation lack high-speed...

Netflix is enjoying a period of rapid expansion, riding on the popularity of DVD-by-mail and online video streaming. The question for investors is: What's next? Netflix has signaled that it plans to expand abroad, and the U.K. is a likely target. But is Britain ready for Netflix?

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday proposed that the government auction off its portion of the wireless spectrum to private companies to boost access to high-speed Internet and cut the federal budget deficit.

Global broadband service revenue has grown 10% this year, says ABI Research, which expects sales to more than triple by the end of 2011. The cause? More users are watching television and videos on the Web, boosting the need for faster speeds.

Google has received over 600 "community responses" after announcing plans last month to build an ultra-fast fiber-optic broadband network for as many as 500,000 U.S. customers. The plan is designed to nudge the government and Internet providers to ramp up U.S. broadband speeds.

To raise money to expand its growing wireless and fiber-optic divisions, Verizon sold 4.8 million landlines to Frontier in exchange for $5.25 billion in Frontier stock. The lines being sold include all Verizon landline customers in Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, North...

Ever think what your life would be like without high-speed Web access? Frankly, I can't imagine it, and maybe you can't either. Whether as a productivity tool for work or life or both, broadband Internet access would seem to be a slam dunk for most people who can afford it. But that's just it....

Recently, Bournemouth became the first English city to get a new form of super-fast internet. While that's great news for the 88,000 homes and businesses that will get new 100 Mbps connections, the real news is how they're going to get it. H2O Networks Ltd, the company that's funding the project,...