BROWSING: Internet

Ericsson will help connect more children to their teachers while they wait out the threat of COVID-19 Last Thursday, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott announced the closure of all schools in the state for in-person instruction for the rest of the 2019-2020 school due to the...

  Saud Arabia’s Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC) expects to award two mobile virtual network operator licenses for foreign operators interested in investing in the Saudi telecom market, a spokesperson at CITC told RCR Wireless News. The spokesperson said that the two licenses will be...

Currently, 3.8 billion people worldwide – about half of the world’s population – lack access to the Internet, yet Internet growth has slowed every year since 2015. The majority of people who don’t have Internet access are from developing economies, where lack of Internet...

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Qualcomm launches its...

  It’s a reality. Regulations on internet service providers, known as net neutrality rules, began to roll back April 23, although the controversial action by the Federal Communications Commission faces court challenges and a recently passed Senate bill that would reimpose net neutrality will soon...

  For Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai, restoring an open internet has been a long time coming.  Since his days as a dissenting FCC Commissioner during the Obama administration, Pai has remained steadfast in his commitment to replace the recent government regulatory stronghold over broadband...

  Our desire for privacy is part of what makes us human. None of us likes to have our privacy invaded, whether from someone reading over our shoulder or a data breach. Every day we read stories about foreign government hacks and ads that follow...

These days, everyone is excited about 5G internet, and it’s obvious why; 5G is going to greatly increase the downloading and uploading potential of mobile devices, and bring the world closer together than ever before. Tests of the new system, due to roll out...

Baby boomers may not be as young as they once were, but their bandwidth demands match those of younger generations and service providers should be aware. Age-of-use is becoming an outdated concept and ease-of-use will be the future trend, according to...

The simple answer is “the addition of people.” IoT now has a very broad swath covering many vertical markets as well as consumer embedded. There’s an old adage in marketing that rapidly expanding markets always segment. A hundred years ago you had the car or...

Google Fiber, a slowly sinking ship Google Fiber will be halting its operations in 10 "potential Fiber cities" while it refines its approaches, according to a blog post by Craig Barratt, SVP of Alphabet and CEO of Access. In yesterday's post, Barratt stated Google Fiber must...

Google Fiber, a slowly sinking ship Google Fiber will be halting its operations in 10 "potential Fiber cities" while it refines its approaches, according to a blog post by Craig Barratt, SVP of Alphabet and CEO of Access. In yesterday's post, Barratt stated Google Fiber must...

Comcast has announced the launch of a Chicago-area trial for a new internet service that delivers speeds up to 1 gigabit per second to customers.  The service will use DOCSIS 3.1 technology to deliver these speeds over the company’s existing network infrastructure. In January, CableLabs gave...

The need for a managed Wi-Fi solution According to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index, more than half of all monthly traffic from mobile-connected devices will be offloaded to the fixed network by means of Wi-Fi and other solutions by 2018. But implementing a building-wide Wi-Fi system...

According to a Speedtest Market Report, mobile internet has seen performance gains, improving by more than 30% since last year with an average download speed of 19.27 Mbps in the first six months of 2016. The four major U.S. mobile carriers—Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile U.S....

The growing demand for internet access is forcing service providers to look beyond traditional fiber installations and into fixed wireless solutions By 2017, there will be approximately 3.6 billion internet users around the globe, or about 48% of the world’s population. The growing demand for...

Initially geared toward the consumer market, Google Fiber is now targeting small business customers with internet service plans topping out at 1 gigabit per second. In a post to the company blog, John Shriver-Blake, a product manager for Google Fiber, said the new service plans, ...

With the help of Vint Cerf, Google's chief internet evangelist, NASA is experimenting with a technology called delay/disruption tolerant networking to allow for remote monitoring and operation of experiments housed on the International Space Station. NASA has been working on DTN for a number of...

Building on Google Fiber television and Internet service, meet the Fiber Phone Building on its growing service provider business lines, Google today announced its Fiber Phone service, which builds on the Google Fiber Internet and TV service to create a triple-play service offering. The Fiber Phone...

Consumer watchdog group calls out Comcast for engaging in monopolistic business After trying out capping customer data use at 300 gigabytes per month, Comcast is expanding the practice to new markets in 12 states. The data caps, which Comcast refers to as "trials," are already in effect in...

After Comcast failed to block a municipal fiber broadband network, the city of Chattanooga, Tenn., via EFB Fiber Optics, will offer what it bills as the fastest home Internet connection speed in the world. In Chattanooga, the local Electric Power Board has built-out a large,...

Moves further competition between AT&T and Google Fiber for gigabit Internet to the home AT&T this week expanded its GigaPower fiber-to-the-home service in several major metro markets in Florida, Texas, Georgia, Nashville, Indiana and Illinois. In several of the markets, AT&T's fiber service is in direct...

Internet access is a key for economic development Of the more than 7 billion people on Earth, more than half of them don't have access to the Internet. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with U2 frontman Bono, want to change all that by 2020. The duo...

UN commission is focused on bridging the digital divide In a report released Sept. 21, the United Nations Broadband Commission for Digital Development found that 4.2 billion people, 57% of the world's population, don't have regular access to the Internet. And that's a problem, according to...