While we complain that some broadband speeds in the UK are “slow” it could soon get much worse for US broadband users amid news that US broadband providers are looking to influence the government’s definition of “broadband”. The UK authorities have promised to introduce broadband speeds of no less than 2 Mb per second to [...]

In a move which at some stage could well be replicated in the UK it has been revealed that US telecom companies are fighting a battle to retain the upper hand in the small local US broadband markets. A report in the US press claims that Monticello, a small town in Minnesota has come [...]

It was revealed yesterday that the US broadband market is mirroring that of the UK, with sharp drops in the rate of growth in the industry. The broadband market analysis firm, Leichtman Research Group Ltd., reported that the growth in broadband connections in the US in the second quarter of this year marked the lowest [...]

After last year’s announcement that US broadband speeds lag behind most other developed countries in the world, it was expected that companies would make a concentrated effort to improve service to bring the speed of US broadband up to the level of that of countries such as the UK and Japan. However, in a report [...]

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently announced plans for a free broadband service to cover the country. The service will be based upon what are now known as “advanced wireless services” which can include a range of technologies from 3G to the latest broadband delivery system. As has become very common in [...]