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Rhode Island has the highest unemployment rate in New England and, right or wrong, believes that wireless broadband may be the tonic they need to kickstart area economies. The state is number one when it comes to Wi-Fi investment, recently announcing plans to be the first state to build a statewide WiMax broadband network for [...]

That ever-elusive second HD stream and a whole home DVR system will be coming to U-Verse users within twelve months, AT&T’s VP of Advanced Network Technologies Ernie Carey reminds Light Reading. Most of this information was already revealed during a recent investor relations webcast, during which AT&T announced that both those services were actually delayed. [...]

In case you were considering signing grandma up for broadband anyway, TV Squad points out that Tivo is offering a free Tivo and wireless g adapter if you sign up for broadband service at Best Buy. While sadly this is a Series2 and not a Series3 Tivo, users who take the coupon into Best Buy [...]

Public Knowledge has been digging through the FTC’s recent report on broadband competition and network neutrality, and frankly, they aren’t too impressed:”The staff did no original research on the state of competition in the broadband market. Then they proceeded to accept the arguments from the telephone industry that competition is on the way in the [...]

Obviously, our primary annoyance about the iPhone when announced was that instead of being a HSDPA device, it’s running over AT&T’s EDGE network, which traditionally squeezes out 200kbps on a good day if the planets are aligned properly. More commonly, users have seen speeds that aren’t a huge leap from the days of dial-up. In [...]