New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria will be the first states to get high-speed fibre broadband to the premises by 2019, as the Federal Government seeks to boost its digital economy. Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) is expected to deliver the first phase of fibre-to-the-premises broadband in 2019-20.The NBN is also expected to have a roll-out in South […]

The GOP is taking a more populist approach to rural America, touting it as a place where “we are living off the grid,” and promising to restore rural America to its pre-crisis level of prosperity.The Republican Governors Association released a new ad Monday, featuring two rural governors, that aims to connect the dots between the GOP’s recent success in winning […]

Back in February, a Redditor named Kostarot wrote a post titled “Buckeye ISPs and the Backroads of Broadband”, which focused on how broadband providers were “back-stepping” in the broadband market.This post quickly gained traction with the rest of the Internet community, and it’s still a popular topic to this day.It’s worth noting that the term “backroads” isn’t a typo: in […]

When I was trying to figure out how much money I should spend on my internet service, I found a service called XL Broadband that offered “net neutrality” for a small fee.The service would allow users to watch the video stream, but it wouldn’t block or throttle any content.It was essentially an ad-free version of Netflix, which is pretty much […]

By: Adam P. F. Wilson The next few years of the next generation of high-definition video will bring new opportunities to viewers, but they’ll also bring new challenges for a lot of the biggest video distributors in the industry.The question that remains is, “How do you build a business around that?”And so far, the answer is, Morris Media is leading […]