national broadband plan

UK mobile and broadband carriers face fines of $117K/day, or 10% of sales, if they fail to follow new cybersecurity rules

More than three years in the making, the U.K. government today announced a new, sweeping set of rules it will be imposing on broadband and mobile carriers to tighten up their network security against

Isotropic Systems raises $40 million for a satellite antenna that could make the most of new constellations

U.K.-based Isotropic Systems has raised a $40 million funding in an “oversubscribed” round that the startup says will help it get its next-generation broadband terminal to the production p

COVID-19 shows we need Universal Basic Internet now

Just as the electrification of America brought the nation out of the Great Depression, the Wi-Fi-cation of the nation can ease us out of the COVID-19 collapse.

Cuckoo Internet closes seed funding to disrupt UK broadband market

Cuckoo Internet is a new U.K. startup that aims to disrupt the U.K. broadband market. It has now raised £470,000 in seed funding, which includes funding from work.fund, a new Silicon Valley fund oper

UK to put up £1BN for full fiber broadband and 5G, £400M extra for VC

The UK government has confirmed it will be borrowing to try to encourage investment in high speed fiber broadband networks and 5G technology -- with a plan to spend over £1BN by 2020-2021 to bolster

Help Us Google, You're Our Only Broadband Hope. (The Government Has No Spine.)

<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-166742" title="help_me_obi_wan" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/help_me_obi_wan.jpeg" alt="" width="320" height="200" />For the future of

The FCC's National Broadband Plan is now live!

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/usabb.jpg" />Might as well get this over with now. The <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/03/14/why-are-people-against-the-fccs-nati

Why are people against the FCC's National Broadband Plan?

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/broadband.jpg" />Up until a moment ago, this was going to be a standard "newsy" post: the FCC will announce its National Broadband Plan o