Despite a seemingly stout business plan, and all the well-known financial, social and educational benefits it would bring, the FCC's just turned down M2Z's application for a coast-to-coast free wireless broadband system.READ»
Amongst the fuss and pointless politicking about the National Broadband plan, did you know that there already is a nationwide super-fast fiber broadband infrastructure? It's called National LambdaRail (NLR), and it's been privately ...READ»
While cable and telephone networks are busy renewing their national U.S. cable grids with fabby new tech, the government is being left behind...but not for long: The FCC wants a $16 billion national network for emergency service ...READ»
On Friday, the FCC launched a new crowd-sourcing platform to try to generate some consensus on the direction of the agency's National Broadband Plan. Built by IdeaScale in the style of Digg and Reddit, popular voting-based social news ...READ»
The Australian government has announced it'll push ahead with plans for a nationwide broadband network, just as U.S. officials mull and argue the fine points of how to improve net access across the country with money from the ...READ»
