This story has been getting a lot of traction in recent days. Supposedly Softbank, a Japanese company that owns Sprint, is in talks with Germany’s Deutsche Telecom, owners of T-Mobile. If the proposed $32 billion merger deal comes to pass, the third and fourth largest wireless carriers in the U.S. will be one. The combined number […]

So the theory goes that net neutrality simply means that your ISP cannot throttle traffic to your computer or mobile gadget and exact a “ransom” from the content provider to stop slowing things down. That’s the theory, but it’s all very complicated, and the FCC’s latest effort to sort things out may end up being […]

To show you how desperate the media has become when it comes to news about a forthcoming Apple product — any forthcoming product – there is a certain report that indicates Comcast knows something about the next Apple TV. Or maybe not. In an FCC filing designed to explain why it’s a great idea for Comcast and […]

Consider this problem. You have a very fast Internet connection, but on some sites, download speeds are glacial, in the same range as dial-up. So you call your ISP and they claim each of their tests show there’s nothing wrong with their network. But the performance problem persists. Is there a solution? That’s something I’m still […]