When you hear a politician, a lobbying group, or a corporate executive yammering on about leaving the free market alone, don’t fall for it. Many businesses today are built around finding that industry ...

Hibernia Atlantic and Huawei announced earlier this week they have successfully completed the first 100 gigabyte-per-second transatlantic trial of high bandwidth and undersea connectivity in a ...

The best way to ensure broadband networks are performing as promised and public investments are paying off is to keep a ...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has added tools to the Broadband.gov Web site to help users measure their broadband speeds or to report that they do not have broadband available. The FCC ...

Bandwidth-measuring site Speedtest.net updated today with a new look, more accurate bandwidth measuring tools, and a new feature, called Speed Wave, that allows you to compare your speeds with your ...

I just got word today about a new VoIP Test for Businesses. Home users can take it too, straight from your web browser at http://www.bandwidth.com/tools/VoIPTest. The ...

The FCC is asking the nation's broadband and smartphone users to use their broadband testing tools to help the feds and consumers know what speeds are actually available, not just promised by the ...

A new study charges that some of the Internet Service Provider speed test results that the Federal Communications Commission cites in its surveys are inaccurate. Specifically, tests conducted by the ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. The Federal ...

Communications regulator Ofcom is to field-test the mobile broadband performance of five major operators. The regulator has asked broadband test company Epitiro to measure data throughput speeds for 3 ...