Broadband News & Trends
YouTube enables 4K Live Streaming
YouTube has supported 4K for several years, but it just recently announced 4K streaming. This marks a huge step for live streaming content, which has taken hold in popular social media channels like Facebook and Twitter. By being one of the first to support this new...
Mobile Broadband Reaches 84% of the Globe
84% of the world’s population now has access to mobile broadband (otherwise known as 3G and 4G). That’s according to this year’s Measuring the Information Society Report by the United Nation's International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Actual penetration or usage...
What to Do with a 10 Gbps Connection
A customer in Chattanooga, TN was able to sign up for a service providing an Internet connection that delivers an almost unimaginable 10 Gbps. A local provider, EPB, launched the service last year for $300 a month with free installation, no contracts, and no early...
The Coming 5 GHz Bandwidth Squeeze
It’s fairly common knowledge that Wi-Fi networking uses two frequencies: 2.4 and 5 GHz. It also been established that the 2.4 GHz band, which has been around forever, suffers from heavy doses of interference: Bluetooth devices, microwaves, wireless mice, cordless...
Gigabit Delivers Hidden Benefits
A recent study, underwritten by the broadband industry, threw shade at cities who have deployed gigabit connections within their boundaries, suggesting that “nobody is sure what (gigabit) is good for.” While it’s true that there’s no “killer app” out there that...
WiGig to Come to More Devices Next Year
According to reports, the Wi-Fi Alliance is starting to certify devices that feature the super-fast Wi-Fi standard known as WiGig. WiGig doubles Wi-Fi’s current top speeds, with the caveat that it only works over a short range–around 30 feet–so the user must be in the...
