In five years, more than half of U.S. broadband households – 58 million homes — will not use a service from a multi video programming distributor (MVPD), according to a video cord cutter forecast from The Diffusion Group (TDG). In…
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Report: Add Rising Infected IoT Devices to Network Security Challenges
Infected IoT devices have more than doubled as a percentage of all devices infected from cyberattacks – from 16% to 33% since 2019 — according to the Nokia Threat Intelligence Report. The reasons for the acceleration are poor security protection…
Report: Network Brownouts Skyrocket During COVID-19
End user complaints about business network brownouts have grown 60% since the start of COVID-19, according to a new report from Accedian. The report authors define network brownouts as unexpected performance degradations, excessive slowdowns and network congestion that impact application…
Report Documents Wide Divergence in Rural Broadband Speeds
There is quite a divergence with rural broadband speeds across America, according to PC Magazine, citing a report from SatellieteInternet.com. The report looked at communities with populations of less than 10,000 people that are at least an hour away from…
Research: Consumers OK with Sharing Smartphone Data for Contact Tracing
With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rising, consumers are willing to share smartphone data for contact tracing purposes if privacy protections are offered, according to a new smartphone contract tracing report from Parks Associates. However, the willingness to provide the smartphone…
5G Economic Forecast: $8 Trillion Impact on Global GDP by 2030
As 5G becomes more commonplace, it will increase global gross domestic product (GDP) by $8 trillion by 2030, according to a 5G economic forecast from Nokia. A $4.5 trillion investment in 5G and related technologies will support this growth, researchers…
Average Price for 5G Phone Drops, 5G Phone Ownership on the Rise
Nearly one out of every seven smartphones sold in the U.S. in August was 5G capable, according to new 5G phone ownership research from Counterpoint. The research firm said 14% of the smartphones sold during the month were 5G devices,…
Report: Robocalls Increase 4% in One Month, Average 127M Per Day
Despite recent moves by regulators seeking to stem the tide of annoying robocalls, there was a 4% robocalls increase in September compared to August. September robocalls reached 3.8 billion, according to a new report from YouMail. Earlier this year, the…
AT&T Traffic Up Almost 20% Amid COVID-19: Text and Voice Traffic Up, Mobile Data Actually Down
Daily traffic on the AT&T Global Network is more than 391.8 petabytes, an increase of almost 20% compared to the average on a typical day before COVID-19, the carrier said in an update on AT&T COVID-19 traffic and the company’s…
Rural Cable Broadband Buildouts May be on the Rise, Thanks to RDOF and Other Gov’t Funding
Expanding their footprints using an edge-out strategy could be a growth opportunity for cable companies, according to MoffettNathanson Research – and funding through the upcoming Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction and other government programs could play a key role…
Poll Finds 90% Support Federal Funding to Close Digital Divide
Ninety percent of U.S. voters want Congress to fund efforts to close the digital divide, according to the results of a new digital divide funding poll released today by the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA). More than six-in-10 (62%) said they…
Report: Cord-Cutting Accelerates, Now 37% of Broadband Households
Net gains in broadband-only homes experienced a record jump during the second quarter causing the year-to-date total in 2020 for cord cutting households to more than double, according to Kagan, a group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. Broadband-only homes are…
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