Calix, a company that provides equipment to help carriers, cable companies or rural broadband providers deploy and manage fiber networks, has raised $100 million in a combination of debt and equity fi...

Qwest today said it has purchased gear from Alcatel-Lucent that will one day allow its long-haul network to achieve speeds of 100Gbps.  Since the company decided last June to keep its long-haul ...

Updated: Senate Republicans last night backed off a plan aimed at popping the net neutrality balloon floated by the FCC on Monday, according to the Washington Post. This is smart thinking, as there...

After reading a report out today from the National Broadband Coalition, I found myself thinking about conversations in recent weeks with guys from Cisco and my colleagues about how far the U.S. needs ...

The FCC said today that it will open up a public comment period seeking information on the issue of high prices and a lack of availability for middle mile and backhaul access for wired and wireless br...

An avalanche of comments has so far poured into the Federal Communications Commission regarding plans to codify the principles of net neutrality, with folks arguing that it will destroy the Interne...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation last week sent analysis data to the FCC that put the cost of installing fiber networks in 80 percent of the anchor institutions (hospitals, medical facilities, ...

Verizon Communications today made available a quad-play bundle — wired voice, data, video and wireless services — in certain parts of the country, though customers can turn it into a tripl...

The U.S. Government  Accountability Office yesterday released a report outlining the effect that a swine flu epidemic might have on our broadband infrastructure. It appears to be an effort to goad ...

With broadband, as with other utilities such as electricity and water, people should pay for what they use, according to an editorial in The Financial Times today.  Demand and use of the Internet h...