German judge: Internet is so essential, you can claim compensation for interruptions

January 25, 2013 11:39 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

A judge rules that Internet access was basic enough to plaintiff's existence that the ISP should compensate him for his loss to the tune of €50 ($67) per day for the duration of the outage.

Verizon FiOS doubles down on speed with new 300 Mbps broadband service

May 30, 2012 6:54 PM Ricardo Bilton
Ricardo Bilton

Data hogs, meet your Holy Grail.

Verizon is adding a major new option for its high-speed FiOS fiber customers: a 300 megabits-per-second data service for households with heavy Internet habits. Using the new level, customers can download a 1.5-gigabyte file …