Grant Gross

The Federal Communications Commission plans to release a national broadband plan next week that will lay out an ambitious set of goals for broadband deployment and adoption.

The Chinese government is likely behind recent cyberattacks on U.S. government Web sites and on U.S. companies in an apparent effort to quash criticism of the government there.

The US government should spend more on broadband adoption by redirecting money from a fund that subsidizes traditional telephone service to high-speed Internet service, Rep Doris Matsui (D-CA) said Tuesday.

If the Federal Communications Commission adopts broad new network neutrality regulations, the agency's authority to do so will be challenged in court, predicts FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell.

The Supreme Court ruling that throws out limits on corporate political-endorsement spending is giving new hope to opponents of network neutrality regulation proposed by the Federal Communication Commission.

Verizon Communication's proposed sell-off of 4.8 million rural phone lines in 14 states to Frontier Communications will saddle the smaller telecom firm with a huge amount of debt and should be rejected by the government.

The US government and private businesses need to overhaul the way they look at cybersecurity, with the government offering businesses new incentives to fix security problems, the Internet Security Alliance...

Mobile broadband providers say the network neutrality rules will be more difficult to apply on wireless networks, where providers need the flexibility to manage their networks and guard against congestion.

Part of the blame for continued cybersecurity problems in the U.S. government and beyond lies with Congress and its "scattershot" approach to dealing with the issue.

US policies toward defending against cyber warfare need to take a different approach than the government has against other forms of attack, three cybersecurity experts said Thursday.