ISPs Shamed by UK Broadband Speed Tests
Light Reading
The marketing sham that is the UK’s broadband market was exposed today by a report from regulator Office of Communications (Ofcom) , which elucidates the chasm between the “up to” speeds advertised by service providers and the actual broadband connections that customers experience.
Topics: broadband, ISP
FCC: Broadband Starts at 4 Mbit/s
Light Reading
After upgrading its standard definition of broadband to 4 Mbit/s, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says in its annual broadband deployment report that the prospects for getting high-speed Internet access to 14 to 24 million Americans in poor or rural areas that lack it are “bleak.”
Topics: FCC, broadband
Pyramid: The Struggle for Broadband in AME
Light Reading
The Africa and Middle East (AME) market represents a great opportunity for telecom operators and vendors alike, but huge obstacles will have to be surmounted before the region’s potential is fully realized.
Topics: broadband
Recovery Act Funds Sit Still
Light Reading
While US agencies cheer last week’s awarding of more American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds, they might be biting their nails, too, because they’ve only got until Sept. 30 to hand out more than half of their planned $7.2 billion in grants and loans.
Topics: broadband
Undersea Cable Set to Boost West Africa Broadband
Reuters Africa
An eagerly-awaited submarine cable linking West Africa to Europe has gone live, paving the way for cheaper and more reliable internet access in one of the world’s fastest-growing telecoms markets, its operators said on Friday. The 7,000 km (4,350 mile) fibre optic Main One Cable runs from Portugal to Nigeria and Ghana, and also [...]
UK and European Internet Traffic Impacted by African Undersea Cable Fault
ISPReview UK
A crucial Seacom fibre optic cable, which links UK and European broadband internet users with Africa and India, was struck by a serious fault on Monday that will take a minimum of 6-8 days to fix.
Topics: Africa, telecom, ISP, telecommunications, Seacom, Europe, India, broadband, undersea cable
Fault Disrupts Seacom Undersea Cable to East Africa
BBC News
An undersea cable that brought high-speed net access to East Africa for the first time has been hit by a fault, knocking many in the region offline. The owners of the Seacom cable said the exact cause of the fault was “still being investigated”, but was thought to originate off the Kenyan coast.
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FCC Looks to Reclaim Its Broadband Mojo
Light Reading
Title I, Title II, or ‘Third Way’? The FCC’s ready to hear about the benefits and risks of all three as it seeks to save its National Broadband Plan
Topics: broadband, FCC
Singapore Set for Broadband Ramp
Light Reading
While the Singapore government is busy plowing its taxpayers’ millions into the nationwide delivery of high-speed fiber access broadband, the real story in the island state might be in the mobile sector, according to a new report from Pyramid Research .
Topics: broadband, Singapore
SubCom, Main One Wrap Phase 1 of Undersea Cable Installation
FierceTelecom
Main One Company, an undersea cable service provider offering open access, wholesale broadband capacity in West Africa, completed the first phase of the Main One Cable System with system supplier SubCom.
Topics: broadband, telecom, undersea cable, telecommunications, Africa
Effects on Broadband Communications Networks of Damage To or Failure of Network Equipment or Severe Overload
TMCnet
Consistent with the recommendations of the National Broadband Plan, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) adopted this Notice of Inquiry to seek comment on the present state of survivability in broadband communications networks and to explore potential measures to reduce network vulnerability to failures in network equipment or severe overload conditions, such as would [...]
FCC Declares War on Broadband
Light Reading
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made clear today it is ready to go to war with service providers in order to maintain and, to a degree, extend its authority on broadband services.
Topics: broadband, FCC
North Carolina To Try And Ban Community Fiber Today
BroadbandReports.com
Stop The Cap notes that Time Warner Cable and friends have returned to their efforts to ban North Carolina communities from wiring themselves with fiber. Loyal lawmakers in the State today plan to introduce a bill that would impose a “moratorium” on municipal broadband deployment (even if a town or city votes to build a [...]
Slow Start for TWC’s Fastest Broadband
Light Reading
Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) added 212,000 high-speed Internet subs in the first quarter, but just a sliver of that total — roughly 1,000 — signed up for the MSO’s speedy Docsis 3.0 services.
Topics: broadband, Time-Warner Cable
SEACOM Still Down
MyADSL
Many ISPs suffer with international bandwidth constraints as SEACOM maintenance takes longer than expected. SEACOM last week said that it experienced a brief interruption in its network on 14 April 2010 as a result of a fault on the Mediterranean section of the SEA-ME-WE 4 submarine cable system, which SEACOM currently utilizes to connect to [...]
