The arrival of gigabit fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) service has shaken up the North American Internet market in a big way. Cable companies are feeling the heat and racing to join the gigabit bandwagon, ...

The DOCSIS 3.0 specifications enable cable modems to achieve unprecedented uplink and downlink data rates, and it comes not a moment too soon. The growing market strength of telecommunications service ...

Research firm Point Topic released their global broadband statistics report for Q1 2012, revealing that there are over 600 million fixed broadband subscribers in the world. “As at the end of March ...

Comcast's demonstration of a prototype DOCSIS 3 cable modem this week illustrates the speeds that could be available to at least some consumers in the next couple of years even if FTTN or FTTH ...

The number of North American households hooked up to fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks has hit the nine million mark, with small incumbent telephone companies continuing to lead the growth in fibre to ...

When U.S. cities or towns have multiple gigabit internet providers, prices for various service tiers drop accordingly, a new study reveals. Americans have long put up with expensive broadband service ...