There was lots of press coverage about the FCC's broadband plan on Monday, as the commission released an exec summary of its nearly 400-page plan for broadband in the US. If you want to wade through the details, it's all there online for you. But, if you want a basic summary, it appears that, like pretty much everything this FCC is doing, it's a lot of talk and little of consequence...

Mobile broadband semiconductor vendor Icera has started shipping its HSPA+ Release 7-enabled HSPA+ soft modem to customers. The companys platform delivers 21Mbps download speeds as a software upgrade to its current HSPA 14Mbps platform, using the same silicon. It is expected that first Icera customers, which currently ship 10.2Mbsp and 14.4Mbps modems, start upgrading their devices ...

FCC delivers its National Broadband Plan to Congress today including action to connect the 100 million Americans currently lacking broadband in their homes.

The Federal Communications Commission's chairman, Julius Genachowski, says some U.S. broadcasting companies are on board with the FCC's National Broadband Plan. Read the full story here.

WiMAX stands for "Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access,`and is a tellecommunications technology that provides wireless transmission of data using a variety of transmission modes. These modes can include point-to-multipoint links, to portable and fully mobile internet access. The technology provides up to 10Mbps broadband speed, with no need for cables. As an aside, the name &q...

Today, I issued the following statement after the FCC and the Broadband Team released “Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan” to reporters this afternoon: “CTIA and our member companies are extremely pleased that spectrum is recognized as being pivotal to the National Broadband Plan. We appreciate the FCC’s and the Broadband team’s focus on making &...

The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to deliver the National Broadband Plan to Congress Tuesday (March 16). The chairman released a summary of the plan Monday (March 15). The following is a statement by Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president for public affairs, policy and communications:  Verizon strongly supports the

More corners of the country would have high-speed Internet access and existing connections would become much faster under a sweeping proposal to overhaul U.S. broadband policy that is being unveiled Tuesday.The plan from the Federal Communications Commission is meant to guide the government's...

The plan will call for 4 Mb/s per second to the home and 1 Gb/s available to communities via fiber backbone networks as goals

With electricity as his analogy, FCC chair wants to push faster broadband to more places Click here for more.