Broadband November 2010 Archive

Netflix has made the move from distributing movies through the U.S. Postal Service to streaming videos over the Internet.  Although Netflix continues to offer both the mail order and streaming ... Read More

One of President Obama's 10 year goals is to identify 500 MHz of spectrum for wireless broadband. The U.S. Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that it ... Read More

Australian legislators will vote on legislation to authorize spending $43 billion (US) on a national broadband network.  The proposed amount is almost six times the amount of money which was ... Read More

Highlighting the importance of finding more spectrum for wireless broadband, Gary Locke, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and Larry Summers, Director of the White House National Economic Council, wrote a letter ... Read More

In the race for the fastest Internet speeds, Verizon claimed the first successful test of XG-PON2 (10 Gbps passive optical network) technology, at speeds of 10 Gigabet-per-second - upstream and ... Read More

Before the election 95 congressional candidates pledged support for Net Neutrality.  Every one of those supporters lost the election. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski hoped that Congress would tackle the issue when ... Read More