This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. The cutting edge apps and products shown off at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show will increasingly need a cutting edge wireless network. Our current 4G LTE speeds may …

Politicians and regulators, take notice: More Americans are relying solely on wireless access at home and away for Internet and video content. That’s according to data released Monday (PDF) by the Pew Research Center, based on a survey from earlier this year. Between home broadband and mobile, 80 percent of adults now have high-speed Internet access, a modest increase from …

The Internet at work behind the scenes. James Martin/CNET After more than a year, the proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable continues to slog its way through state and federal regulatory proceedings, even as broadband industries — including voice, video, and Internet access — continue to evolve at breakneck speed. But no matter. Regulators proceed on their own …

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. CNET A political battle in Washington, D.C. is heating up as the Federal Communications Commission strongly hints its new Net neutrality rules, which will be voted on next month, will include President Barack Obama’s directive to reclassify broadband as a utility. On Wednesday, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler said during a discussion at the Consumer Electronics Show …

Building high-volume, complex information systems is hard. But when time is limited and the client is the federal government, as we learned most recently and most painfully with the failed launch of Healthcare.gov, it’s nearly impossible. Yet with only six months remaining on the contract with its longtime supplier, the Federal Communications Commission seems on the verge of repeating past …

Passions run high when it comes to proposals about the open (or less than open) Internet, as in this protest outside FCC headquarters in May 2014. Alex Wong, Getty Images On Friday, Rep. Henry Waxman, ranking member of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee, sent a 15-page letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler detailing a legally complicated new approach …

CNET Reports of a partial cease-fire in the patent war between Apple and Samsung over various design features of the iPhone is certainly welcome news. Ever since late Apple founder Steve Jobs promised operating system, the mobile ecosystem has been engulfed in over a hundred largely pointless lawsuits, with Apple claiming ownership of such basic features as the rectangular shape …

LAS VEGAS — The message came across loud and clear: our wireless way of life could hit a wall, and hit it hard, if it doesn’t get more spectrum very soon. Federal communications policy took center stage Wednesday at CES 2014 here, including the CEA Innovation Policy Summit, where attendees heard from a wide range of US government and industry …

Late last month, the FCC issued its 16th Mobile Competition Report, a 400-page document that analyzes in detail the competitive landscape for mobile carriers and the ecosystem that surrounds them. Congress charged the FCC with answering one simple question in the annual report: Is there “effective competition” in the mobile ecosystem? But since the 2009 confirmation of Genachowski as the …

WASHINGTON–The federal government is slinking away from a promise by President Obama to free up badly-needed radio spectrum for mobile users and the already over-taxed networks that serve them. Just months after the publication of the National Broadband Plan in early 2010, the president issued a memorandum ordering the FCC and the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration to …