broadband
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FCC Launches Investigation Into Whether Carriers Lied About Their Coverage
The Federal Communications Commission has announced an investigation into whether carriers falsely reported information about their coverage areas to the agency, therefore screwing people over. The FCC said Friday that it would halt its $6 billion program aimed at providing high-speed mobile broadband coverage in rural areas while the investigation is underway.
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The FCC Just Gave SpaceX The Go-Ahead To Build A Space Internet
It looks like America may have a winner its great internet space race. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just authorised SpaceX to launch its broadband satellite service, Starlink. That means Americans could be accessing the internet from space as early as 2019. They’ll literally just be pointing their phones at the sky and going online.
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Three Charts On Australia’s Growing Appetite For Fast Broadband
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ latest figures on internet activity in Australia show a huge jump in the number of people with advertised speeds of greater than 24 Mbps (that’s megabits per second, a measure of data transfer speed).
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The Best NBN 50 Plans (From ISPs You’ve Never Heard Of)
People we speak with tend to think about NBN plans in one of two ways. Either they’d like to know about the fastest plans, and focus on 100Mbps, or they want to know the cheapest. Sometimes it’s a combination of both.