A new report about the state of broadband connectivity around the world reveals some good news and bad news about policy in the United States.

*A new report from the Open Technology Institute states what most of our readers know all-too-well: the United States lags behind numerous develope...

Internet users in Seoul continue to get the speediest connections at the lowest prices anywhere in the world, with speeds of one gigabit per second...

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...

*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...

America's internet speeds and price are a joke.

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...

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.

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 ...

All major US ISPs are providing connection speeds below broadband, according to a damning report from independent internet connection measuring org...

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

People across the country are experiencing slow speeds on the Internet thanks to the complicated system Internet service providers (ISP) use to con...