Designing fiber optic networks involves finding the most efficient way to connect phones and computers that are in different places -- a costly and time-consuming process. Now researchers have ...

Google deserves credit for trying something very difficult, and putting some big money where their mouth was. That said Google Fiber looks like dead business model walking. Consider what happened this ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series about the fiber-optic internet revolution taking place in Bonneville County, where the cities of Ammon and Idaho Falls have used public network ownership to ...

Ammon, a town of roughly 16,000, shares its entire western border with Idaho Falls, a town of roughly 62,000. The two towns share a sibling rivalry that at worst leads to bouts of squabbling, but at ...

In a growing number of cities, high-speed Internet is seen as another essential utility, like water, sewers, roads or electricity. If cable and phone companies don't provide faster web service, more ...

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Designing fiber optic networks involves finding the most efficient way to connect phones and computers that are in different places – a costly and time-consuming process. Now researchers from North ...

In 2000, internet access was a bit of a luxury. It was useful, but you could easily get by without it. Today, that’s no longer true. Work, commerce, schooling and participation in the public sphere — ...