Internet providers want to meter usage

If Internet service providers' current experiments succeed, subscribers may end up paying for high-speed Internet based on how much material they download. Trials with such metered access, rather than the traditional monthly flat fee for unlimited connection time, offer enough bandwidth that they won't affect many consumers — yet.

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TV Spectrum Opening for Wireless Devices

A U.N. telecoms meeting decided Thursday to give mobile service providers access to bandwidth currently reserved for terrestrial television broadcasts, offering the promise of high-speed Internet access on-the-move anywhere in the world by 2015.

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Euro Broadcasters See Cell-Phone Threat

European broadcasters said millions of viewers could find their TVs switched off by nearby cell phones if a U.N. meeting this week goes along with a U.S. plan to give cell carriers access to TV frequencies.

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Net neutrality: Like it or loathe it, you can't deny it's a hot topic at the moment. And while Cisco's just done some research to show bandwidth hogs don't necessarily exist in the way they're portrayed, the GOP is trying to delay the FCC's vote.

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COMCAST, the second-largest US cable television and Internet communications service provider, has a new broadband traffic throttling scheme installed and operating in all of its markets.

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Nearly lost amidst the breathless anticipation of all things wireless...is the potential impact these gadgets may have on scientific instruments that likewise need access to the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Researchers have demonstrated a "time telescope" that could squeeze much more information into the data packets sent around the internet. Rather than focusing information-carrying light pulses in space, like a normal lens, it focuses them in time.

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The Internet was built to withstand nuclear attack. That was why it was built in the '60s in the first place, as a communications system with redundancy built in so that the military could communicate even if one of the nodes went down.

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Greenlanders are hooking up to the Internet in droves since the Greenland Connect sea cable was connected to the island on 24 March. Within the first month of its operation, Internet use jumped 25 percent.

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THERE HAS BEEN a lot of talk lately over usage quotas on cable modems and how some are fair and others are not at all. The problem that most people don't get is that the numbers have nothing to do with the Internet, the entire argument is a diversion.

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The relay of information over networks due to Apple's iPhone and its competitors is forcing communications companies to invest in the type of equipment supplied by Ceragon, because existing network infrastructure is old, and part of it is near the point at which it will not be  …

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Will the Internet run out of bandwidth? That's the concern expressed by an upcoming study, and it could mean the end of the Internet as we know it.

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Pretty much the fastest consumer broadband in the world is the 160-megabit-per-second service offered by J:Com, the largest cable company in Japan. Here's how much the company had to invest to upgrade its network to provide that speed: $20 per home passed.

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Web users, the meter is running. In a strategy that's likely to rankle consumers but be copied by competitors, Time Warner Cable (TWC) is pressing ahead with a plan to charge Internet customers based on how much Web data they consume.

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The internet is filled with threats real and imagined, from malicious hackers to government censors. Beyond the hacks and cracks — and in celebration of Sunshine Week — we've compiled a brief list of some of the biggest public and private threats facing the internet.

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New York Governor David Paterson has proposed a tax on Internet downloads, a spokesman said Monday, in a move that has raised eyebrows because it could apply to everything from software to pornography.

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If you watched a live video feed of the inauguration on Jan 20th off of CNN's website, you may have unwittingly installed a P2P feed sharing program that used your computer, in lieu of CNN servers, to stream the feed to other users.

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Google and a host of net-savvy partners have opened up a free set of web tools to help anyone determine if their net connection is blocking or throttling BitTorrent or otherwise limits their bandwidth.

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Excerpt: After much talk about experimenting with live streaming video, YouTube dipped its toe in the water on the weekend, with a much-hyped event (at least in blogosphere terms) called YouTube Live, featuring some of the "cewebrities" that have emerged on YouTube over the p …

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Comcast's new Unacceptable Use Policy

Robert Blevin has posted Comcast's recent email setting the new policy to deal with excessive user. I'll start by saying it is not the worse policy I've heard but I've known about it for a while and I have 2 problems with it.

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Beginning Oct. 1, Comcast will put a 250 gigabyte-a-month cap on residential users. The limit will not affect most users, at least not in the short-term, but is certain to create tension as some technologies gain traction.

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Comcast has announced that it will in fact be introducing bandwidth caps to all residential customers. The cap, which will go into effect as of October 1, will be 250GB per month.

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While Comcast's new network management scheme—to slow down heavy bandwidth users' entire connection—started back in June, we're just getting some of the grislier details.

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BT is throttling all of its broadband customers' bandwidth at peak times, not just heavy users, according to independent monitoring data.

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The Federal Communications Commission has sanctioned Comcast for "secretly degrading peer-to-peer applications," as the agency put it today.

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RELIEF may be at hand for Australian consumers starved of the limitless internet download quotas offered in other countries. Aussies may get limitless downloads

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How did we get into this position? It's a result of cable ISPs essentially doing the equivalent of an airline overbooking a flight.

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Bandwidth caps are coming to Japan, but not in the way to which North Americans are accustomed. OCN, operated by NTT Communications, has decided to impose a daily upload limit beginning on August 1. The limit? 30GB per day. Upstream.

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