(By JOELLE TESSLER, AP) WASHINGTON -- As many as one in 10 Americans can't get Internet connections that are fast enough for common tasks such as view...
Larry Magid | Posted 05.25.2011
If the FCC gets its way, we will have a National Broadband Plan with 100 megabit Internet connection to 100 million U.S. homes by 2020. And that could make remote medicine a reality.
David Colarusso | Posted 05.25.2011
Cable television is the antithesis of net neutrality. I quit cable because I don't want to pay more for bits of information just because they're called television.
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 05.25.2011
Today Washington witnessed a rare moment of comity with the release of the National Broadband Plan. Let's step back and appreciate the process that got us to this potentially historic day.
Huffington Post/AP | Joelle Tessler | Posted 05.25.2011
The FCC has taken the wraps off of an ambitious broadband plan that seeks to raise internet connection speeds and increase the number of households wi...
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 05.25.2011
Speaking this week at the New America Foundation, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski offered a widely anticipated prelude to next month's formal unveilin...
Stephen Balkam | Posted 05.25.2011
One third of Americans are not connected to broadband. What makes these non-adopters such a difficult population is that there is usually more than one reason for them to not have it.
Michael K. Powell | Posted 05.25.2011
In this challenging economic climate, making high-speed Internet access and adoption universal should be a top priority because broadband access is the great equalizer.
Navarrow Wright | Posted 05.25.2011
I love myself some Google and I'm not mad at the fact that they want a free ride. But the question is, who is going to pay for that free ride?
Joe Waz | Posted 05.25.2011
With broadband Internet service now available to well over 90 percent of all Americans, but with an estimated 37 percent of Americans not yet using it, we have what some have called a "broadband adoption gap."
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 05.25.2011
Few people in Washington are busier these days than FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, who will deliver a National Broadband Plan to Congress and unveil a proposal to safeguard an "open Internet."
Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011
FCC commissioners discussed the policy agenda for the FCC in this coming year, addressing concerns over the delayed national broadband plan as well as the fate of the agency's jurisdiction when it comes to network neutrality.
David Weinberger | Posted 05.25.2011
We download faster than we upload because of economics, not physics. The business models of telephone and cable companies got written into a physical infrastructure that favors downloads over uploads.
Sean Donahue | Posted 05.25.2011
Recognizing the power of cloud computing would create jobs, promote innovation and help organizations of all sizes become more competitive.
Jonathan Spalter | Posted 05.25.2011
The pieces are coming together for the president to get Congress and the public behind a truly forward-looking national Internet policy.
Francine Hardaway | Posted 05.25.2011
The FCC is holding a comment period for input as to what the nation's broadband policy should be. Before you let yourself skip this post, give me a m...
Leslie Harris | Posted 05.25.2011
The First Amendment doesn't allow the FCC to function as an Internet board of review. The real question is why would such a proposal even be put out for comment.
AP | Posted 05.26.2011