When you hear a politician, a lobbying group, or a corporate executive yammering on about leaving the free market alone, don’t fall for it. Many businesses today are built around finding that industry ...

Think your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is messing with your connection performance? Now you can find out, with Google’s new online tools that will diagnose your network connection. Here’s a quick ...

The Federal Communications Commission surprised us all earlier this year when it put forth new net neutrality guidelines that were hugely pro-consumer. Yes, there may be a loophole or two. And yes, ...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has added tools to the Broadband.gov Web site to help users measure their broadband speeds or to report that they do not have broadband available. The FCC ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. The Federal ...

Feel like your broadband’s not living up to how it’s advertised? Here’s your chance to prove it: the FCC’s introduced a Consumer Broadband Test that’ll let you know exactly how good a connection ...

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new open source project to develop the new broadband speed test that will deliver more accurate results for a vastly improved broadband user experience has been ...

The FCC is asking the nation's broadband and smartphone users to use their broadband testing tools to help the feds and consumers know what speeds are actually available, not just promised by the ...

Communications regulator Ofcom is to field-test the mobile broadband performance of five major operators. The regulator has asked broadband test company Epitiro to measure data throughput speeds for 3 ...

Don’t let a spotty connection ruin your raid. Using exclusive results from hundreds of thousands of PCMag Speed Tests, we’ve ...

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