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Comcast's Broadband Adoption Program is Making a Difference for Six Million Americans

Broadband adoption among low-income Americans has reached a new milestone, as many people will now have one less barrier to gaining access to an internet connection. Comcast announced this week that its Internet Essentials program—the largest broadband adoption program for low-income families in the U.S.—has now reached more than six million Americans. While Internet Essentials originally began as a program
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Consumers Saved $3.5 Billion in Energy Consumption Thanks to Set-Top Box Energy Efficiency Agreement

The industry's green efforts to reduce energy consumption through voluntary agreements are paying off. Last month, D+R International's audit on home Internet equipment found that devices such as modems and routers were nearly 20 percent more energy efficient than they were prior to the voluntary agreement for small network equipment, and the good news continues. D+R released its latest report,
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Number of Scripted TV Shows on Course to Break Yearly Record

At the TV Critics Association Summer Press Tour last week, FX CEO John Landgraf informed audiences that since the beginning of 2018 and up until now, 319 scripted series have premiered on linear and streaming television. According to FX's research, this mid-year number is already up 5 percent from the same time last year. By the end of 2017, viewers
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Connecting Rural America Through Fixed Wireless Technology

In places where there are more livestock than people and where miles of land separate one household from the next, finding an internet connection can sometimes be challenging. The length of time it would take and the amount it would cost to build a fiber network in certain remote regions can make it nearly impossible to bring high-speed fiber connections
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CableLabs Shows How Broadband Networks Will Power the Future of Education

Kids today already learn much differently than their parents did in school. They've grown up with Smartboards and iPads in classrooms—technology tools that have revolutionized how people learn, their desire to learn, and the way information can be retrieved with a simple finger swipe. But what about their children? What will schools look like a couple of decades from now?
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U.S. Internet Speeds Just Keep Getting Better

According to Ookla, the leaders in internet speed testing, from June 2017 to June 2018 the average download speed in the U.S. went from 69.47 Mbps to an astonishing 93.98 Mbps. This upswing is also related to Ookla data reporting how U.S. speeds are far ahead of the global average download speed of 46 Mbps. Over the past two decades,
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How High-Speed Internet is Improving Education in Rural Schools

Many schools today look a lot different than they used to. High-speed connectivity is encouraging the adoption of 1-to-1 laptop and Bring-Your-Own-Device programs in schools, as well as reputable online learning programs like the Khan Academy, a well-known video lecture site for classroom instruction. But where technology and a broadband connection are having a huge impact in education are in
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Home Internet Equipment Becomes More Energy Efficient

America's ISPs provide reliable and fast internet connectivity to millions of internet users every day so that their digital lives can go on uninterrupted, but what's even more remarkable is the industry's ability to conserve energy usage while maintaining productivity and protecting innovation. Under the industry's Voluntary Agreement for Ongoing Improvement to the Energy Efficiency of Small Network Equipment, home
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Average U.S. Internet Speeds More Than Double Global Average

The United States is one of the leaders in next generation broadband, thanks in part to over $275 billion in infrastructure investment by cable ISPs, and that investment is paying off. According to Ookla, the forerunner in internet speed tests, the average U.S. internet download speed now clocks in at a whopping 93.98 Mbps, as of June 2018. That means
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More Spectrum, Better Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi has transformed connectivity in America in just about every way possible. People rely on the technology to access the internet to conduct their business transactions, connect with their peers, for educational or healthcare purposes or for pure entertainment value. But the traffic lanes that allow Wi-Fi to travel have become much more congested in the last few years. In
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