ROSEVILLE, Calif.--For 88 years, the Roseville Telephone Company watched the telecommunications world transform the 83 square miles it served surrounding this former railroad town outside Sacramento.

The broadband war between phone and cable companies may be entering a new phase, according to subscriber growth numbers disclosed in a pair earnings reports this week. AOL Time Warner's Time Warner ...

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In the not so distant past, accessing the Internet from work was an activity reserved only for those employees who had a pressing business need to do so. In many cases, these lucky few even accessed ...

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 ...

To make sure we were testing in the conditions that most people will use these broadband services, we tested the two mobile technologies (LTE and Sprint 4G) on recent smartphones, and tested the two ...

As more American homes install high-speed Internet connections, telephone companies are finally starting to take market share from the once-dominant cable companies. The top U.S. cable ...

Pent-up demand for blazingly fast Internet access to the home is rocking the very foundations of the high-speed communications industry-or at least shaking up conventional modems that use the plain ...

As a greater number of Americans buy into high-speed Internet connections at home, causing an explosion in the broadband marketplace, DSL is finally catching up with cable. According to the latest ...

DSL appears to be winning out over cable as the most popular broadband connection method of choice. The number of DSL subscriptions worldwide has grown 39 percent over the past year to pass the 150 ...

You’ve got your DSL connection. You’re using an ISP-provided DSL bridge (aka DSL modem). Your LAN is routed through one computer that accesses the Internet with network address translation (NAT) or ...

Suppose you want a broadband Internet connection but you operate in a county with more cows than people, and DSL and cable simply aren't available? Wireless is the solution being embraced by many ...