On AlterNet: broadband

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "broadband"

Shareholder Activists (Including a Beastie Boy) Win Net Neutrality Victory Over AT&T

Simon Maloy, Media Matters for America. February 26, 2012.

The Beastie Boys may have finished what the FCC started. One Beastie Boy, anyway. And Phil Kerpen of Americans For Prosperity is not happy about it.

Internet Access for All: 3 Ways the FCC is Trying to Close the Digital Divide

Jamilah King, ColorLines. January 16, 2012.

Here are a few of the FCC’s efforts to deal with the digital divide—the good and the bad of each.

New Information On AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Proves It's About Eliminating Competition, Jobs

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. August 16, 2011.

AT&T claims its purchase of T-Mobile will create jobs--but history shows it's far more likely to eliminate them.

The Secret $8 Billion Wireless Scam: How AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Game the System

David Rosen, Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet. June 16, 2011.

Telecom giants Verizon and AT&T have gamed the system, using regulations designed to foster competition to snatch up ever more of the wireless spectrum.

The Battle Is Raging for Control of the Internet -- and Big Corporations May Come Out on the Losing Side

Christopher Mitchell, David Morris, AlterNet. June 21, 2010.

Fed up with Internet monopoly, cities have begun to take things into their own hands.

Google Gets in Bed with Verizon, Adopts Failed 'Less Government' Rhetoric

Josh Silver, Free Press. April 2, 2010.

Government should have as little role as possible in delivering broadband to America, says Google's CEO. Just like government should stay out of banking regulation?

Suck It, Telecoms! Public Broadband Gets Reprieve in North Carolina

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. May 6, 2009.

Legislators put on ice a bill that would have crippled municipal broadband projects.

Fake Consumer Rights Group Says Getting Ripped-Off for Internet Use Is Good For You

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. April 23, 2009.

A shill group is taking up the fight to legitimize attempt by cable giants AT&T and Time Warner to price-gouge for Internet service.

Cable Giants Continue Hoping No One Will Notice Their Attempts to Destroy the Internet

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. April 22, 2009.

Despite Time Warner's epic fail with metered billing, AT&T has refused to abandon its usage caps program -- and the AT&T version is even worse.

5 Great Progressive Moves by Obama That You Might Have Missed

Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet. February 20, 2009.

Here are five significant under-the-radar things to be grateful for in the post-Bush era.

Rural America Is Being Left off the Information Superhighway

Steve Early, The Nation. May 19, 2007.

Verizon's proposed plan of a $2.7 billion transfer of local access lines to FairPoint Communications -- a small, largely nonunion North Carolina firm -- is part of a nationwide trend toward rural telecom redlining.

A new option makes DSL and cable look like chopped liver

Heather Gehlert, February 4, 2007.

Heather Gehlert: Think DSL and cable have the market sewn up? Think again.