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Broadband Penetration Up 300% Since 2002

Broadband penetration has increased more than 300 percent since 2002, according to a new analysis from Scarborough Research.In 2002, 12 percent of U.S. adults had a broadband connection in their household. Now, close to half (49%) have broadband. DSL connections have grown more than cable modems, but both have seen significant growth. Since 2002, cable modem penetration increased 188 percent and DSL connections increased 575 percent.

First Comcast, Now Cox Busted 'Managing' Traffic

Comcast's BitTorrent snafu set off another investigation of a cable provider and yielded similar results. This time it's Cox's interference with file-sharing service eDonkey setting Net Neutrality alarms.

AT&T: $10 DSL Slightly Less Impossible To Get

AT&T caught so much flak over burying their $10 DSL offer, that they made it easier to find. You just go past the giant displays for more expensive DSL, down and right to the corner of the screen and then click through to another page.

AT&T: Nobody Wants Our $10 DSL

AT&T's new head is a smooth one, definitely Dapper Dan and not Fop. It takes a quarter-century of industry experience to tap dance around honest questions the way he does.

AT&T: Be Vewwy Vewwy Quiet About Cheap DSL

AT&T's been sounding its trumpets about new wireless video offerings, especially in advance of the much-anticipated iPhone launch. They've kept those trumpets far away, however, from their FCC-required $10 per month DSL.

BellSouth Rescinds DSL Fee

BellSouth had planned to continue collecting a $2.97 per month fee from its 3.2 million DSL customers, even though that fee had been originally collected for the federal government's Universal Service Fund.

BellSouth Also Grifting DSL Fees

Just as Verizon has replaced the Universal Service Fund fee customers paid each month with a new fee that goes straight into their bank account, BellSouth will likewise keep the charge in place and pocket the cash.

Verizon, Yahoo! Team Up For DSL

Verizon Communications Inc. and Yahoo! will announce today their launch of a joint DSL service that is, according to the AP, half as fast but just as expensive as Yahoo!'s SBC Communications link-up. At least the DSL service will still be cheaper than AOL's $23.90 a month dial-up. One day AOL should change its name to AWOL (America Waiting Online).

FCC Tosses Out DSL Sharing Rule

Facility sharing requirements imposed on telephone companies that required leasing lines to competitors has been abolished.

FCC May Toss DSL Common Carrier Rule

The aftermath of a June Supreme Court decision may see DSL deregulated to enable phone companies to compete with cable.