Sentences with phrase «[fibre broadband»

After Verizon beat the FCC in court in 2014, then - FCC chair Tom Wheeler turned to Title II of the 1934 Communications Act to achieve his goal of mandating net neutrality (the court had said that, without broadband providers being classified as common carriers, the FCC did not have the authority to force them to maintain an open internet).

«Now you have close to 1.5 billion people around the world with smartphones connected to broadband and connected to payment systems,» Coneybeer said.

«Almost all the world's problems can be solved by broadband connectivity,» Schmidt said.

While they generally applauded Congress for getting involved in the debate about the way broadband and wireless services providers are to be regulated going forward, they also took issue with parts of a draft bill that would weaken the FCC's ability to regulate such providers, experts say.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler signaled that he would heed President Obama's call to preserve net neutrality — that is, treat broadband internet service providers as utilities (subject to more rigorous regulation than previously) to maintain equal access for all to the internet.

This doesn't come as a shock to someone who just spent the better part of an hour trying to convince Comcast (CMSA)-RRB- that $ 180 is way too much to pay for too many bad TV channels; often - unreliable broadband; and downright terrible phone service.

Similarly, if you're using the default email address your broadband or phone carrier assigned you, it can seem like you've missed the tech boat entirely -; or that you don't represent a real company.

Be sure to see if there's enough broadband data for both voice and data.

Today, 67 percent of seniors use the internet and, for the first time, half of older Americans now have broadband at home.

He took his post promising to gut the rule — which forbids broadband providers from favoring certain web services over others — and he seems likely to get his wish.

The FCC is slated to vote Oct. 27 on new broadband privacy rules that according to Ars Technica, «will put broadband providers under a stricter privacy regime than the one imposed on websites like Google and Facebook, which are regulated separately by the Federal Trade Commission.

The panel then began to address how each of their respective companies was tackling the issue of bringing low - cost broadband connectivity to the developing world.

Facing opposition from internet pioneers, online companies, members of Congress and the vast majority of Americans — all of whom are worried about broadband providers offering cut - down packages of services rather than the full internet — he released a jokey video scoffing at their dire predictions.

Rocco Commisso founded Mediacom, a cable TV and broadband operator.

The group believes that Charter / Time Warner should be forced to offer a stand - alone broadband service for those who just want to watch Netflix and other streaming services.

Perth - based internet providers EFTel Ltd and iiNet Ltd today announced plans to launch innovative broadband services, designed to help them take market share from the incumbents, led by Telstra.

For once, the competing leaders agreed on one thing: the historical shift of bringing broadband connectivity to the developing world.

Coalition to oppose telco reforms The coalition will oppose the federal government's telecommunications reforms, introduced as part of its plan to build the $ 43 billion national broadband network.

But if you're looking for fast broadband domestically, here are the ten best places to find it.

Its key broadband internet business has suffered a double blow, first from the Federal Communications Commission's ruling for more utility - like regulation of the Internet's infrastructure, and then, shortly afterwards, by the collapse of its bid for Time Warner Cable (TWC).

In recent months, President Obama has taken a public stance favoring a reclassification of broadband providers under Title II.

While the wireless broadband technology is being tested, cable companies are rolling out even faster and higher - capacity fiber optic wired connections to homes and businesses, cutting into the promised speed and cost advantages of 5G.

Both Dickerson and Amazon's Misener also criticized the draft bill for its focus on so - called last - mile operations, which deal with how consumers connect to broadband services at home.

Aptela is one example: All you need is a broadband connection — T - 1, cable modem or DSL will do.

I was very proud of the fact that our waterfront corporation has installed what is by most objective measures a world - leading broadband capacity.

Yet, when I had a bunch of VCs in here last week from the United States and I was talking to them about various things, I was asking how our wireless and broadband are here because we're told in Canadian terms that we have superior networks.

The order also forbids preferential treatment of traffic, which could occur if a broadband provider also offers content or services that compete with services offered by smaller companies.

The case, which was first brought in April by USTelecom, a trade group representing broadband providers, has since been joined by AT&T, Centurylink, CTIA, the wireless phone industry association, and Wireless Internet Service Providers Association, who have asked for a partial stay of the decision.

«It goes further than we anticipated, and radical is the right word for it,» Downes says, adding Wheeler has gone too far, chiefly because the FCC does not have the authority to reclassify broadband as a utility or update Title II the way Wheeler's proposal intends to do.

The matter is particularly important for startups that depend on unfettered access to broadband capacity to offer their products and services, but don't necessarily have the deep pockets to pay for expanded services, as more established competitors do.

A Pew Research Center survey released Monday found that 20 percent of Americans have a smartphone but no broadband Internet at home.

A number of eastern - States - based outfits have launched DVD rental companies and, more recently, Telstra announced its plans for fetchmemovies.com, designed to target existing broadband customers.

By the end of February, when Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler delivers his final set of rules on net neutrality, Wheeler would expand the agency's reach over the internet and broadband providers through a series of «bright line rules» that would take the debate over net neutrality to yet another level.

That move essentially cast broadband providers as being more like telephone companies, which are considered common carriers that provide services to the general public, and are therefore subject to more rigorous regulations.

Trump voiced his opposition to the AT&T - Time Warner deal while campaigning for the White House, calling the deal «too much concentration of power» between Time Warner's media assets (which also include HBO and Warner Bros. movie studios) and AT&T's huge wireless and broadband distribution network.

Says Purdy, «We've been doing a number of things to get our hybrid fibre and cable system to a level where, both on broadband and on TV, we have a superior product in market.»

«Ultimately the issue here is whether the FCC had the authority to call [broadband carriers] common carriers, and subject them to the regulations on discrimination and open access,» says Gary Resnick, chairman of the FCC's Intergovernmental Advisory Committee, and an attorney.

Downes and the GCBPP filed an amicus brief this spring in support of USTelecom, saying the FCC had not done a sufficient analysis of the cost burden the rules would place on broadband carriers.

Tesla could leverage SpaceX's broadband network and be a perfect captive customer for the space transportation company.

Telstra investors are bracing for a cut to the company's popular dividend, as the telecommunications giant faces growing pressure from competitors and a looming earnings drop due to the rollout of the national broadband network.

Wheeler's new rules — which would prohibit blocking, throttling, or paid prioritization of internet content — would also reclassify broadband and internet service providers, or ISPs, as public utilities under Title II of the Telecommunications Act.

Rudd's $ 43bn fast web gamble The global recession has forced Kevin Rudd to scrap plans for a high - speed national broadband network funded by the private sector and wager at least $ 21.9 billion of taxpayers» money to fund his election pledge to bring internet speeds into the 21st century.

To put the broadband industry at ease, he has suggested modernizing Title II to remove the threat of new federal taxes, fees, and charges.

Ookla's Net Index ranks Canada 20th in relative cost of broadband — or the price of a subscription divided by a nation's gross domestic product per capita.

The commission would issue new protections for consumer privacy, and ensure Web access to consumers with disabilities, as well as for those living in remote locations without broadband.

Consider Comcast, which developed its own network and had a base of 23 million customers for its cable and broadband services before it even entered the wireless industry.

At issue is how big network owners such as Shaw, Rogers and Bell sell broadband access to independent service providers such as Teksavvy and Distributel.

There were 20 deals worth nearly $ 1 billion in the space industry in the first quarter, according to investment firm Space Angels — though $ 500 million of that was a single deal: A big investment from Fidelity Investments in Elon Musk's SpaceX to develop its constellation of 4,425 broadband satellites.

You mentioned Beanfield, which is wiring condos with super-fast broadband at inexpensive rates.

While the 5G technology is supposed to provide a cheaper way to connect homes than older, wired broadband networks, the industry still remembers Google's claims that its high - speed Fiber service would undercut cable, which did not prove to be the case.