Brightspeed offers fiber and DSL internet service across 20 states in the eastern and midwestern United States. With plans starting at $29 a month and top speeds reaching 2 Gbps, Brightspeed is a ...

A DSL standard that combines fiber and copper to reach gigabit speeds was approved today by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The next step for the new G.fast standard is certifying ...

AT&T has deployed fiber-to-the-home internet to less than 30 percent of the households in its 21-state territory, according to a new report that says AT&T has targeted wealthy, non-rural areas in its ...

CenturyLink offers DSL and fiber internet plans with no contracts or data caps. Its Fiber Gigabit plan costs $75 per month, while the Simply Unlimited DSL plan is $55 per month. CenturyLink operates ...

Internet service providers are getting a new option called G.fast that can extend the lifespan of existing copper phone lines yet again. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Government subsidies and pandemic-era telecommuting have quietly fueled the growth of broadband fiber networks, propelling the fast connection technology from an exotic, expensive technology niche to ...

WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. cable and fiber Internet providers generally deliver the download speeds they advertise, though not consistently, while DSL connections increasingly fail to meet ...

The Federal Communications Commission’s sixth annual “Measuring Broadband America” report wastes little time in reminding phone-based digital-subscriber-line (DSL) technology subscribers that they’re ...

A 22-year-old Verizon promise to bring fiber Internet or “comparable technology” to its entire service area in Pennsylvania has instead left more than two million homes with nothing but slower DSL or ...