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 ...

Cable modems will rule the broadband age--at least for the next five years, according to a research report The Yankee Group released Tuesday. Companies offering cable and DSL (digital subscriber line) ...

Telecom companies, startups, and others have been promising high-speed broadband Internet connections to our PCs for several years, yet only a fraction of homes and small businesses actually have that ...

Cable companies have given telcos a run for their money in broadband services, and the competition has driven down prices. While they didn’t rack up a body count on the scale of a Gambino-Colombo (or ...

A device that connects multiple computers to a cable or DSL line for Internet access. Also called a "residential gateway," "modem/router," "modem gateway," "home gateway" and "Internet gateway." The ...

NEW YORK — Phone companies are losing the high-speed Internet game. In the second quarter, the landline phone industry lost broadband subscribers for the first time, as cable companies continued to ...

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.

In last week’s writeup, which discussed my transition from DSL to cable Internet service, resulting in substantial bandwidth increases with virtually no per-month price tag increase, I wrote: I ...

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 ...

Well, my neighbors DSL provider pulled the plug her DSL. She was getting on 384 up and down with 32 static IPs. We need to replace it with another provider. <P>Download speed is not critical, but ...

For a decade cable companies have been losing millions of video subscribers from cord-cutting. During that time broadband subscriptions continued to grow, becoming a significant profit center. That ...