It is well known that a number of African nations have chosen to forego building out copper wire systems and have jumped directly to wireless for telecoms.  The vast majority of Africans use cell phones that are text-based – smartphones are out of reach of many – but standard cell phones are ubiquitous.Read more

America’s mayors are meeting in Philadelphia in an “innovation summit” with a focus on broadband access to the Internet.Read more

Consumers in the United States have always been promoters and creators of the latest and fastest gadgets. Broadband Internet is no exception. More people than ever are adopting high-speed Internet connections and the U.S. are leading the world in the most advanced wireless technology.Read more

On the same day the New York Times published an article using Professor Susan Crawford’s claim that telecom companies are creating an “expensive mess for everyone,” the FCC showed in its new  “Read more

Though the Internet is advancing at an almost unimaginable pace, Google’s CEO Larry Page believes outdated regulations are holding the U.S. back from greater Internet innovation.Read more

In his opinion column in the Roanoke Times, Gregory Moulthrop discusses the benefits broadband Internet provides to rural communities around the country.Read more