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Net neutrality rules face legal challenges

Feb 5, 2015
Proposal would reclassify Internet service providers as "telecommunications services."

People still use AOL. It's true.

Aug 13, 2014
AOL still has users. And they're getting a lot for their membership.

Comcast expands low-income internet program

Aug 5, 2014
Looking at the motivations behind Comcast's eased eligibility requirements.
A Comcast contractor repair pickup. The cable company has been expanding eleigibility for its low-income internet program, which critics allege is mainly to curry the favor of regulators for its merger with Time Warner Cable. 
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The contents of the internet, via satellite

Jul 30, 2014
A new project aims to democratize the spread of information.

Inside Google Ideas, Google's New York 'think/do tank'

Oct 24, 2013
Google's East Coast think tank unveiled some new tools all designed to make internet access easier where it's now hard to get.

Fifteen percent of American adults are offline

Aug 30, 2013
Data released this week by the Pew Center shows that 98 percent of Americans now live in an area with access to broadband internet. Despite that, 15 percent still don't use the internet at all.
Fifteen percent of Americans don't use the internet at all.
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How to bring high-speed Internet to America

Mar 7, 2013
ERF Wireless uses radio waves hopscotched over short to medium distances to bring high-speed wireless Internet to places that wires or fiber optic cables can’t reach.

Instagram's privacy backlash, and the dirty secret of data caps

Dec 19, 2012
A negative response to Instagram’s privacy setting changes, and a paper that calls the reasoning behind service provider data caps into question.