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With many U.S. schools in distance-learning mode due to COVID-19, Comcast has announced a newly expanded program aiming to get low-income students online. The Internet Essentials Partnership Program, which began as a response to the pandemic in the spring, is aimed at helping kindergarten through 12th grade students…

President Obama continues to wade into the digital waters with the White House announcing today that he will use his annual State of the Union Address next week to promote broadband competition. The commander in chief will deliver a speech in Iowa on Wednesday in which he’ll outline his plan to bring high-speed…

“We have a government affairs department that’s interested in that conversation,” Netflix CFO David Wells told investors today at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference. Easy to see why: Usage-based broadband pricing could hurt Netflix by leading subscribers to fear that they’ll run up their costs if they spend…

It just might if it frightens them enough to accelerate their efforts to make people pay for broadband based on how much they use — the same way they pay for electricity or water. “This isn’t just a side show,” independent analyst Craig Moffett says. “This is THE central issue defining the value of the cable industry…

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said that he’ll raise at the commission next month a proposal to “free up a substantial amount of spectrum for wifi to relieve wifi congestion and (increase) speeds.” He made the announcement at a friendly venue: the International CES confab in Las Vegas, where tech manufacturers are…

It’s hard to figure out Verizon’s place in the infotainment world — and CEO Lowell McAdam kept things murky in his appearance today at the UBS Annual Global Media and Communications Conference. He wouldn’t address this week’s surprising report that the phone giant might launch its own national movie and TV streaming…

It happened last night, and for about six hours prevented some customers — no word on how many — from being able to use the Web. Cablevision says that it was a Distributed Denial of Service attack, which means that someone flooded its network with communications, causing it to slow down or grind to a halt. But the…

Most major cable companies have committed to supply broadband Internet access to low-income households for $9.99 a month, the Federal Communications System is expected to announce Wednesday. FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has made expanded broadband access a top priority, and he told the New York Times that with…