We're far from #1: "Downloading a high-definition movie takes about seven seconds in Seoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Zurich, Bucharest and Paris, and peop...

"There will be a tougher line," said Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. Republican rhetoric would bec...

*The Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation conducts a study every year comparing broadband speeds and prices nation- and world-wi...

"The Cost of Connectivity" report, newly published by the Open Technology Institute of the New America Foundation, compares Internet access in US c...

Hollie Russon Gilman, who served as Open Government and Innovation Advisor in the Obama administration, says that her experience with online govern...

Still, experts say part of the problem is how much the Republican Party has changed over the last few decades. Julian Zelizer, a political science ...

Sascha Meinrath, director of the Open Technology Institute at the Washington-based New America Foundation think-tank argues that what's needed inst...

The Open Technology Institute's recent "The Cost of Connectivity" report compared the cost and speed of broadband Internet in 24 U.S. cities with v...

A report released earlier this week published by M-Lab, a research consortium focused on measuring global Internet performance, studied this problem.

The source material is a detailed traffic measurement report (.pdf) released this week by Google-backed M-Lab — the first of its kind — showing sev...

If you’re looking to pay less than $40 a month for home broadband, you’ll likely need to go to Asia or Europe to get the fastest speeds, according ...

The United States lags behind other nations when it comes to Internet speeds and prices, according to a Thursday report.

The report entitled "ISP Interconnection and its Impact on Consumer Internet Performance", details findings based on the speed test results collect...

Looking to better understand the recent traffic slowdowns experienced during interconnection feuds, M-Lab has released a new study (pdf) that analy...

Offering equal measures of thoughtful and contradictory commentary, a Wednesday night panel called “Will Amazon Lead Us to the Golden Age of Books?...

The proof is in: Detailed report shows how U.S. Internet access monopolies punish rivals and catch innocent bystanders in the crossfire—legally.

The problem is novel and complicated. But the M-Lab data is unassailable: this problem is harming consumers.

“I think voters are fine with it,” said Julian Zelizer, a political historian and professor at Princeton University. “I think in many ways they lik...

A new report indicates that some of the mud-slinging this year is true: interconnection, or peering, between ISPs is why end-users are getting terr...

In Los Angeles, New York and Washington, downloading the same movie takes 1.4 minutes for people with the fastest Internet available, and they pay ...

Last week, three teenage girls from Denver were alleged to have tried to join ISIS. The key lead in this case wasn't high-tech surveillance by the ...

M-Lab Observatory — explorable data on the data experience (RTT, upload speed, etc) across different ISPs in different geographies over time.