Hundreds Weigh in on Net Neutrality
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Comments from groups and individual Internet users were filed with the FCC.
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At a packed Beacon Hill hearing yesterday, top officials from Verizon Communications Inc. faced skeptical questions about a telecommunications bill yesterday from a legislative committee and a crowd that hissed and heckled at times.
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One-third of U.S. Internet users  have connected to the Web using a wireless network to send  e-mails, check the latest news or read other things, according  to a survey released on Sunday by the Pew Internet Project.
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The Internet serves more as a town hall in the United States than an echo chamber as users are more likely to be exposed to a wide range of political views, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
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One of the best things I like about the Internet is the boundary-less nature of this amazing network. I can check out user views of people (from here in India) around the world on the India issues.
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About one-third of Internet users in the U.S. have used a wireless connection to surf the Web or check e-mail, according to a survey released Sunday.
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Over half of online US households are using broadband to access the internet, according to new research.
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There were an estimated 63 million broadband users, or 51% of all home Internet users, last month compared with 61.3 million dial-up users, 49% of the total, according to a survey by NetRatings Inc.
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For the first time, a slim majority of US Net users are connecting via broadband. In July, 51 percent of America&#39;s home online population was using broadband connections, according to a report from Nielsen/NetRatings. Before July, the ...
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Proponents of Net neutrality laws call for a hearing on the issue, arguing reports of peer-to-peer traffic interference support need for rules banning that practice.
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More than 11,000 people sound off, giving the FCC ample food for thought as it ponders possible new rules for internet access.
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More than half of U.S. residents want the government to regulate Internet video in some way, according to a poll released Wednesday.Twenty-nine percent of those surveyed said Internet video should be regulated just like television content, and another 24 percent said the U.S. government should institute an online rating system similar to the one used by the movie industry, according to the poll, commissioned by 463 Communications, a Washington, D.C., public relations firm that specializes in high-tech issues.Only 36 percent of respondents agreed that government regulation of Internet video would raise constitutional issues. &quot;I was really shocked that people look at the Internet the same way they look at TV,&quot; said Tom Galvin, a partner at 463. &quot;People see [online video] as spiraling out of control, and they want government to do something about it.&quot;Galvin called that attitude &quot;a bit scary.&quot;Only 33 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds supported government regulations of video content, while 72 percent of those over 70 years of age did.The question about government regulation was one of several that&#160;463 asked in its poll about Internet attitudes, conducted by Zogby International. The two companies work together on periodic polls asking &quot;quirky&quot; questions about technology and the Internet, Galvin said.Only 11 percent of the survey respondents said they would want to have a device to access the Internet implanted in their brains. Perhaps not surprisingly, more men than women wanted that device.However, nearly one in five of those responding would be fine with inserting a tracking chip into a child 13 or younger to help track them if they were lost, abducted, or &quot;just tend not to be where they are supposed to be,&quot; 463 said. There was no difference in opinion among parents who had younger children and those who did not.The poll also tackled religion, with few of the respondents saying they thought the Internet has had an effect on their relationship with God. Ten percent said it made them closer to God, while 6 percent said it made them more distant. Those numbers were about double for people who called themselves &quot;born again.&quot;Galvin was surprised those numbers were so low, with all of the information about religion online and all the potential temptations there as well. &quot;It&#39;s kind of the vice and virtue part of it,&quot; he said.Other poll results:-- Twenty-four percent of U.S. residents said the Internet can serve as a substitute for a spouse or other significant relationship.-- More than one in four respondents had a social-networking profile on sites such as MySpace or Facebook. And 78 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds had a social-networking profile.-- Apple&#39;s new iPhone is pretty sexy -- 6 percent of respondents listed it as&#160;sexiest among a list of celebrities. But actors Halle Berry, Scarlett Johansson, and Patrick Dempsey all beat the iPhone on the sexy scale. New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter tied the iPhone.-- More than one in five respondents said they&#39;d be willing to change their name and sell their old one to someone else for $100,000.The poll of more than 9,500 U.S. adults was done in early October.
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)Â should resist calls to impose net neutrality regulations on broadband providers because such rules could hurt the Internet, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)Â said Thursday.
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The number of Americans who get on the Internet via high-speed lines has now equaled the number using dial-up connections.    July measurements from Nielsen/NetRatings placed the broadband audience at 51 percent of the U.S...
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Citizens have until Friday to sway government regulators on net neutrality, the principle that ISPs should treat all packets of internet data equally.
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That's some contention ratio Over 200 million people worldwide use DSL technology to access the internet, according to figures released yesterday at Broadband World Forum Asia in Beijing.â¦
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Backers of a Philadelphia Wi-Fi project are worried that a bill going through the state legislature would spike a plan to blanket the city with free or inexpensive wireless access. [Broadband Blog]