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The only Egyptian Internet service provider (ISP) to have survived last week’s government-ordered Internet blackout has finally been taken down, according to internet monitoring firm Renesys. The hesitance in pulling the plug on Noor Group w…
Video streaming and disc rental service Netflix has come out swinging with an analysis of various ISPs’ ability to reliably stream Netflix video, Cnet reports. When all the numbers were in, smallish ISP Charter Communication was the winner, barely edgi…
In the wake of the Comcast dispute with Level 3, many have been wondering about the ISP’s future bandwidth management plans. Some idea that’s been floated often is the idea of usage-based pricing. Users would be charged based on the amount of data they…
Comcast subscribers east of the Mississippi River (and in Minnesota) can’t seem to catch a break. Following a major outage that affected East Coast customers a week ago, CNet now reports that some subscribers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Minneso…
Verizon on Monday announced it has gone and tripled the speed of its FiOS service to 150/35 megabits per second (Mbps), making it the fastest mass-market broadband service in the country.
“The new 150/35 Mbps FiOS Internet offer establishes a new bench…
In an attempt to rally up the troops (and no doubt generate some marketing buzz), Virgin Mobile today issued a call to consumers far and wide to “demand an end to misleading broadband advertising.” According to the self-anointed savior of broadband, Vi…
The produces of The Hurt Locker aren’t the only ones going after file shares. According to reports, three adult film producers are getting ready to send subpoenas to ISPs across the United States to obtain the identities of subscribers they claim illeg…
This week, a Federal Judge in South Dakota sided with ISP Midcontinent and quashed one of the many Hurt Locker subpoenas seeking subscriber information. The ISP had, on August 9, received the subpoena via fax instructing them to hand over the details o…