FCC plans to redefine the policy and protect the broadband consumers, the future of the broadband will be guarded by the new policies. There are more chances of a battle to explode between the telecom companies and federal regulators.
Scott the policy director of Free press said that, “This policy could determine whether the FCC really has the power to act on its broadband plan.”

Popular telecom companies such as AT&T Inc, Verizon communications and other big players will fight out legally in the court battle to find out who’s the cyber boss. Representative of AT&T, Verizon, Time Warner Cable Inc. and leading industry groups  Genachowski said that, “any move by FCC would be a profound mistake with harmful and lasting consequences for consumers and our economy.”

Scott quoted that, “It seems clear that the FCC will decide that its experiment with classifying broadband as an information service has failed and that they’ll revisit the earlier decision, moreover he added that, “Because of the court ruling, telecom companies now hold all the cards,” he said. “If the FCC does anything they don’t like, they can just go back to the courts and say that the agency doesn’t have the authority to do it.”

Let us wait and see who is going to win the battle, whether FCC or giant telecommunication players.

Berkeley is one of the places that offer best education in the world, but now in addition it is the fastest place of internet.  In the United States where people regularly throng the internet, Berkeley ranks the first in the fastest internet followed Chapel Hill, N.C., Stanford, Calif. and Durham. According to a report by Akamai a webhosting company last week, Berkley ranked the fastest in the broadband connection for the fourth quarter of 2009. Akamai’s clients include Apple and Hulu.

According to S Waggener, Vice chancellor of Information and Technology, “UC Berkeley connects to the Cairen network, which is used for statewide research and education, high capacity is provided via multiple high bandwidth connections”

Senior public relations manager for Akamai Jennifer D said that, around the globe there are sixty one thousand servers. More than 20% of the internet traffic is tracked by these servers everyday recording the download time taken and the requests given to them.

S Waggener, VC said that two independent sets of connections are used to provide reliability, 13 gigabits per second by one set and 10 gigabits per second by another set. UC Berkeley senior Jose Roberto said, “I routinely use the campus network due to its poor connection at home”
Director of market intelligence at Akamai David said,” College towns likely enjoy these higher measured speeds due to the high bandwidth connections available at the universities.”

The centre has targeted to spindle Rs.45,000 crore through the 3 G spectrum auctions. According to Citigroup analysts the 3G spectrum could beat the “rational levels”. Telcos will offer high speed data services with 3 G licenses. After nine days of bidding, the amount of auction climbed up to 81.5% (i.e.) to Rs.6, 354 from the base price.

Some of the states in the country received negative response during 3G auction, while this accounted for 50% throughout this nation. More than 15 states showed negative response over the 3G, they include Jammu and Kashmir, Orissa, Himachal Pradesh and all seven north eastern states. Even after nine days of bidding, these places have not even witnessed 1% increase in auction, also states like West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh showed negative results during bidding.

3G auctions in Delhi closed with Rs.733.71 crore which is 129.3% higher than the base price, Tamil Nadu at 101.1%, Mumbai with 108.7%, Kerala at 87.6% and Gujarat at 75.2%

TRAI (Telecommunication Authority of India) has given some recommendations for the 3G airwaves same as that of 2G airwaves suggested by Subodh Kumar Committee report. Representatives from telecom department, TRAI and other industries were present in the committee headed by Subodh Kumar. A Raja minister for telecommunication referred this report to TRAI as a part of creating new policy.

Geographically Delaware is one of smallest state in US, but is bigger and higher in terms of broadband speed in US. According to a CDN vendor Akamai’s newest State of the Internet report, in the United States Of America Delaware is the state with high speed internet at an average of 7.6Mbps per connection. This is extremely higher when compared with other states that have a speed of 5.8Mbps. Moreover Delaware leads the nation in broadband connectivity with a whopping 72% clocked with 5Mbps or much higher speed.

Some of the states with 5Mbps or higher connection speed are Massachusetts (5.7Mbps), Connecticut (5.4Mbps), Rhode Island (5.4Mbps), New Hampshire (5.6Mbps), Vermont (5.8Mbps) and New York (5.4Mbps). Some of the states with 5 Mbps or higher broadband connection are Indiana (5.4Mbps), Wisconsin (5.1Mbps) and Nevada (5.5Mbps).
Overall broadband speed of United States Of America is 3.8Mbps and it ranks 22nd when compared with several European and Asian countries in internet speed. With 11.7Mbps South Korea has the highest internet speed, second place goes to Hong Kong with a speed of 8.6Mbps and the third place in broadband speed goes to Japan with 7.6Mbps speed.

Akamai issues quarterly web reports since June 2008 and they collect data’s of connectivity speed through their servers deployed at various global points.