According to CNN. On July 2nd President Barak Obama declared new government investments in 66 projects that are to spread broadband connections to rural and poor areas across the country.

By way of the 2009 economic stimulus act, the $795 million in grants and loans funded will create 5,000 construction and installation jobs. Along with achieving [...]

France will be seeing brighter futures into the high speed Internet world. According to Max Colchester of The Wall Street Journal, the French government will be contributing a 2 billion euro loan to reform the country’s high-speed Internet networks.

“Monday the government would make a series of low-interest loans to telecommunications groups, to encourage them to [...]

ElectroniCast Consultants has released a report on the fiber optic industry in regards to connectors and mechanical splicers.

“Technological advances in fiber optics are assuring the migration of fiber closer and closer to the end user which then translates into demand for shorter and shorter links including board-to-board interconnects where connectors represent a substantial share of [...]

The destructive 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti this last Tuesday has left many people in distress. The numerous calls that are trying to be sent out and received have left telephone networks acutely congested. USA Today has reported on this issue.

“Telecommunications providers in Haiti will continue through the weekend to try to accommodate the enormous demand for phone and broadband [...]

Research scientists were able to create an artificially induced black hole in a laboratory by firing a stream of intense, brief laser pulses inside an optical fiber.
“The most surprising aspect for me is how simple it actually is to create artificial event horizons,” Leonhardt told LiveScience.
He and his colleagues detailed their findings in the [...]