Rural Vermont phone company offering Google Fiber-like Internet speeds for $35/mo.

Google sure isn't wasting any time when it comes to an expansion of its ultra fast Internet Service Google Fiber, but then again neither are other ISPs -- even those in rural Vermont.

Free broadband for all: FreedomPop’s Hub Burst home router now available

The free wireless internet startup FreedomPop is targeting the likes of Comcast and Cablevision with its Hub Burst home router, which is now available for purchase.

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

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.

How a CloudFlare network engineer fixed a Google outage last night

Yesterday Google went down for about 30 minutes ... until it was fixed by a network engineer who doesn't even work for Google.

US Congress, Cisco: Chinese telecom companies ‘cannot be trusted’

The U.S. Congress Intelligence Committee and telecommunications vendor Cisco are agreed on one thing: Chinese networking equipment companies can't be trusted.

Dish Network plotting its own satellite-based Internet service

Satellite television service provider Dish Network is planning to expand its business with a new nation-wide high-speed Internet service.

Comcast may take on Verizon FiOS Quantum with its own super fast broadband

Comcast is planning to offer a new ultra-fast broadband Internet speed tier in markets shared by rival service Verizon FiOS, according to Broadband Reports.

Comcast’s new broadband tier would offer customers the option of getting downstream speeds of up to …

UK regulators say ISPs must be piracy watchdogs

Add watchdog to the list of duties now on required of U.K. Internet service providers. The nation’s communications regulator, Ofcom, today rolled out a draft code demanding ISPs watch out for piracy, record how many warnings are given suspected offenders, …

Comcast, defender of Internet freedom and friend of the little guy (don’t laugh)

Comcast is helping the little guy avoid getting screwed. For once.

The massive media conglomerate is refusing to comply with court-ordered requests to deliver the names and contact information of its customers to porn studios. The studios claim that Comcast’s …

Why ISPs are hijacking your search traffic & how they profit from it

A handful of Internet service providers (ISPs) in the U.S. are redirecting search traffic around specific keywords to brands’ websites, presumably for affiliate marketing revenue.

A study released today by a UC Berkeley research group revealed that for some Internet …