Texas Instruments has developed new DSL technology that will make it easier for phone companies to boost their bandwidth offerings, so they can offer new services like voice and video over broadband ...

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. Texas ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Texas Instruments (TI) has developed new technology designed to allow telephone companies to ...

An emerging high-speed Internet standard in Europe holds potential for faster download speeds and broader availability for many U.S. businesses--if they're willing to wait a while. Although DSL speeds ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Texas Instruments (TI) has developed new technology designed to allow telephone companies to ...

CopperCom, an Internet-based voice equipment maker, today acquired DTI Networks for an undisclosed sum in a move to differentiate itself in an increasingly crowded market. The acquisition, coupled ...

Last mile copper loops are largely considered a dead-end technology; fiber-to-the-home and coaxial cable systems offer much more headroom, so much so that even the recent National Broadband Plan ...

PHILADELPHIA - High-speed Internet access over ordinary telephone lines is a technology that was to pave the promised information superhighway -- but for most consumers it's become a road to nowhere.

Learn how ADSL provides high-speed internet over phone lines, its benefits over cable, and its widespread availability, ideal for both home and rural areas.

Three-quarters of rural households have DSL available, according to data self-reported by internet service providers. But only about half of rural households have access to higher-speed cable internet ...

Mark Lewis and his wife bought a house in Winterville, Georgia, in August 2012. They figured getting Internet service would be as simple as calling up AT&T, because the prior owners had AT&T DSL ...

Journalism doesn’t get more anecdotal than this, but it seems like everyone I know with a DSL connection to the Internet has bitched about it. At length. To me. Can’t get connected. Can’t stay ...