HAVANA (Reuters) – Direct telephone connections between the United States and Cuba have been established under the first commercial accord realized since the December rapprochement between the two longtime adversaries, Cuba’s national telecom provider said on Wednesday.
People are silhouetted as they pose with laptops in front of a screen projected with a Google logo, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica in this file photo taken on October 29, 2014.
A pro-net neutrality Internet activist attends a rally in the neighborhood where U.S. President Barack Obama attended a fundraiser in Los Angeles, California July 23, 2014.
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – AT&T Inc (T.N ) spent close to half the total in the record-setting U.S. sale of airwaves for mobile data, with Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N ) and bidding partners of Dish Network Corp (DISH.O ) also spending heavily, results showed on Friday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission raised a record $44.9 billion in the auction of so-called AWS-3 airwaves that closed on Thursday, marking the highest point yet in the wireless industry’s appetite for more spectrum.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. regulators on Thursday raised the standard for high-speed Internet, voting that only connections with download speeds of 25 megabits per second or faster will qualify as broadband, meaning fewer parts of the United States have broadband access.