When Google Fiber Abandons Your City as a Failed Experiment
There’s a glob of stringy, black rubber spilling out of the street at the corner of Speed and Fernwood in Louisville’s…
Comcast Blames Nationwide Outage on ‘Fiber Cut’
If you’re a Comcast customer, you might have already realized your internet is borked today. That wave of sadness and…
Oregon's Botched Google Tax Break Shows Why You Don't Bend the Knee to Tech Giants
As city officials around the US continue to carve out incentives that might convince Amazon to build its new…
Report Shows AT&T Ignores Poor Neighborhoods in Cleveland
There is a digital divide in America. Households in the bottom 20 percent of incomes are five times more likely not to…
Comcast's New Gigabit Service Isn't the Internet of the Future You've Been Waiting For
Everybody wants faster internet. Instead of investing in better technology like fiber, however, providers like Comcast…
How to Build a Better Internet
I pay Time Warner Cable $70 a month for broadband that works 70-percent of the time. Just for fun, I recently upgraded…
Google Wants to Make Landlines Relevant Again with Its New Fiber Phone
If you’re living with high-speed internet in one of Google’s Fiber cities, your landline telephone might yet live to…
Engineers Break Record for Fiber Optic Data Transmission Using New Breed of Laser
Think your fiber is fast? Think again: A team of engineers has smashed the world record for sending data down an…
Former Aereo CEO Wants To Blanket Your Home In Gigabit Internet
Aereo was the bad boy of the cord-cutting revolution, until it was declared unlawful by the Supreme Court and scrapped…
AT&T Is Rolling Out Gigabit Fiber to 38 New Cities
AT&T has been offering gigabit-speed fiber internet since 2013, but unless you got very lucky with the internet genie,…
New York City Is Very Pissed About Verizon's Failed FiOS Rollout
If you live in New York City, you most likely don’t have access to Verizon’s very 21st-century fiber optic internet…
Comcast Treats City to Fiber After Suing It For Installing Fiber
Insulting news, residents of Chattanooga! Comcast will soon offer its 2 Gigabit-per-second fiber internet service to…
Could Humble Milkweed Replace Down Feathers In Your Outdoor Gear?
Down is the most effective commonly-available insulator for outdoors apparel. But, it’s also expensive, loses its…
After Billions in Subsidies, The Final Verizon FiOS Map Is Bleak as Hell
As Verizon inches towards the end of its long-promised FiOS expansion, we can finally get a look at all the places…
Obama's Plan to Loosen Comcast's Stranglehold on Your Internet
President Obama glad-handed some network engineers in Cedar Falls, Iowa today. No, it was not a campaign stop. (He's…
Scientists Are Sending Data-Carrying Spiral Lasers Across Entire Cities
Twisted laser beams may just be the key to unlimited bandwidth in the future—and now a team of scientists has used them…
It's not all about Google Fiber: Cincinnati Bell is now offering gigabit internet to customers in its home town, too.
Why You Should Set Up Your Own Community Fiber Network
Between the net neutrality debate and the Comcast/TWC merger, high-speed Internet access is getting more attention than…
Verizon says that it's doing its customers a big favor and boosting FiOS upload speeds to match the download speeds.…
AT&T's New Fiber Could Stymie U.S. Disaster Response Communications
AT&T's plan to roll out next-gen fiber optic cables nationwide as a replacement for its traditional copper-based…