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Mobile broadband subscribers increase by 850 percent Yahoo News Sandvine Tackles Mobile Data LightReading.com Sprint Ordered to Cease Nextel Operations in IPCS Territory Cellular-News.com ZigBee gets an IP-based rival TechWorld.com Broadcast media will be killed by the Internet The Inquirer [...]

Verizon and Fairpoint Communications have officially closed the deal on Verizon’s transfer of their phone & DSL networks in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont to Fairpoint Communications (1.6 million landline customers and 230,000 DSL users are impacted). $88 billion Verizon is the real winner in the deal, shedding roughly $1.5 billion in debt and getting [...]

Users in our Verizon FiOS TV forum note that Verizon’s FiOS TV high definition video on demand offerings are going live in some markets. Unconfirmed reports indicate that FiOS TV markets in Texas, California, Maryland, Northern NJ, Philadelphia/Delaware should go live either today or tomorrow. We’ve got calls in to big red, and will post [...]

Last year, we mentioned how a 75-year-old Swedish woman was given a 40Gbps fiber connection by her network engineer son, who was testing long-range fiber connectivity. Slashdot directs our attention to a follow up that notes the woman primarily uses the connection….to dry laundry. “Swedish Internet legend” Peter L thberg’s test gear (not specified) was [...]

Robb Topolski is the Broadband Reports user who discovered Comcast’s packet-forgery traffic shaping nearly half a year before the Associated Press made the practice national news. He reminds us that while the company is getting plenty of hugs and kisses from the press for last week’s announcement that they’ll be changing their ways, nothing has [...]

Buried beneath the noise surrounding Bell Canada’s effort to annoy independent ISPs and their customers, Canadian cable operator Rogers last week informed its customers they’d be facing new overage charges. In a several page letter sent to Rogers customers last week, the cable operator first goes out of their way to make their existing caps [...]

Last week Bell Canada caused an international ruckus with their decision to throttle the traffic of their wholesale partners without telling them. Over the weekend, Bell Canada offered their official response (pdf) to complaining ISPs, telling them the decision to throttle wholesale traffic without giving independent ISPs any say in the matter is an issue [...]

UK broadband provider Virgin Media says they’ll be the first UK ISP to voluntarily track their users’ pirated material transfers, and will terminate the accounts of repeat offenders. The “three strikes” policy, which could go live in a few months, would suspend user accounts on a second offense and terminate their connections on the third [...]

Gartner denies its claim that Apple ordered 10 million 3G iPhones PCPro.co.uk Atlanta top airport for wireless FloridaToday.com Bandwidth pricing market 2008 Channel News Sony sued for pirating software The Inquirer New York Times editorial: cities should push for muni Wi-Fi [...]