Google's Super Fast Broadband Service Is Growing, But Not Everyone is Happy
Everybody wants high-speed internet, but should Google have the final say in how we get it?
Articles tagged "broadband"
There Will Be Broadband: Forgotten by the Future, Some Take the Internet Into Their Own Hands
Without fast service, rural communities are starting to grow their own.
Iowa Is Selling One of the Oldest Government-Owned Fiber Optic Networks
Who wants to buy 8,000 miles of public fiber-optic internet?
Greetings From the Far Side of the Wireless Divide
The FCC delivered a fun new map last month showing the various areas in the US that still lack 3G or 4G wireless coverage, based on the most recent census results. No surprise: it’s a lot! Or I guess it shouldn’t be surprising, but I think it’s reaso…
A Grand Tour of the Weirdest Wi-Fi
Jumping off a bus in the middle of the night, I walk down the side of a Vietnamese highway with my friend, Pascal. It's extremely dark and full of crickets outside -- beside the occasional blare of another bus whizzing past. The blinking blue dot on
Stanford Gets Blessed With High-Speed Fiber, How About The Rest of Us?
Like some sort of archangel descended from internet heaven, Google has bathed Stanford University in glorious high-speed goodness as part of the beta test of their new gigabit fiber network. Since the program was announced, the service, which is now
The Internet Black Holes of the United States
h4. Denali, Alaska (Flickr / "just - jen":http://www.flickr.com/photos/whetzel/88580884/sizes/z/in/photostream/) The U.S. Commerce Dept. released a $200 million map of broadband access in the U.S., which shows that a tenth of the country lacks bro…
