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Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Hello, (43% Of The) World: The Internet Now Reaches 3.2 Billion People The Internet is on hyperspeed. Fueled by the rise of mobile broadband, Internet connectivity around the world has grown sevenfold since 2000, according to a report from the United Nations International Telecommunication Union
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	New York City Plans To Give Residents $70 Million Worth Of Wi-Fi In an effort to further bridge the New York City's digital divide, the de Blasio administration is spending $70 million to expand cheap, high-speed broadband across the five boroughs, the city announced today.
Fast Company David Lumb	Comcast Offering New Fiber Service That's Twice As Fast As Google Fiber Comcast has announced a new residential service, Gigabit Pro, that promises 2 Gbps for both uploading and downloading data, according to Ars Technica.
Information Today March 3, 2015 George H. Pike	FCC Approves Net Neutrality The Federal Communications Commission gave a huge victory to Net Neutrality advocates by voting in favor of sweeping new rules that change the way internet services are regulated.
Fast Company Ainsley O'Connell	Oh, Snap! Verizon Responds To Net Neutrality Decision Via Typewriter, Morse Code The new rules prohibit site blocking, paid prioritization, and other tiered and gate keeping activities, effectively regulating the Internet as if it were a public utility.
CRM September 2014 Marshall Lager	Neutering Net Neutrality Let's put the brakes on a separate, but unequal, future for bandwidth providers.
Fast Company Chris Gayomali	An Inside Look At Google's Project Loon, One Year Later Just over a year ago, Google announced an ambitious plan to bring an Internet connection to remote areas of the world with a fleet of solar-powered "smart" balloons.
Information Today February 4, 2014 Nancy K. Herther	FCC Confronts Issues of Net Neutrality, Future of the Internet at Stake On Jan. 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Federal Communications Commission does not have the authority over broadband providers in its provision of internet access and traffic "control" as it has with ISPs. Immediately red flags went up.
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 R. Les Cottrell	How Bad Is Africa's Internet? A decade long quest aims to pinpoint the Internet bottlenecks holding Africa back
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Weller & Woodcock	Bandwidth Bottleneck The hardware at the heart of the Internet isn't fast enough
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