This may offer a bit of comfort to some with slower broadband connections. For US internet users, your tax dollars have now proven that the speed of broadband is 50% slower than what it’s claimed to be. For those that would say, "Did we need to spend a bunch of tax money to figure something out everybody already knew?" In fact, yes. The problem...

As everyone (and I mean everyone) has been hearing for about, oh, a year’s time is that analog television will cease transmissions on February 19, 2009 and switch to digital – so if you receive TV via rabbit ears (pictured) you’ll have to throw those out and buy a new set that can receive digital. But now the soon-to-be CINC is suggesting that...

Almost everyone has a wireless phone. And sure enough you’ve probably seen that “Universal Service Fund” (or something similar to that) on your bill. You’ve probably thought to yourself What IS that charge for? The USF was created in 1997 by the FCC in order to meet the goals of Universal Service as outlined in the Telecommunications Act...

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