Phone company Frontier Communications Co. will probably charge its subscribers a dollar or two per gigabyte of Internet traffic if they go over the monthly allotments the company plans to introduce next year, Frontier's chief executive said Friday. ...more

November 2, 2008

Three months ago, Guy Distaffen switched Internet providers, lured from his cable company to his phone company by a year of free service on a two-year contract. But soon the company quietly updated its policies to say it would limit his Internet activity each month. ...more

August 23, 2008

Three of the nation's major Internet service providers have agreed to block customer access to newsgroups and Web sites that offer child pornography, according to an agreement announced Tuesday by the New York attorney general's office. ...more

June 11, 2008

You're used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance? ...more

June 3, 2008

Federal regulators on Monday said they are ready to discipline Internet service providers who secretly favor certain types of data traffic, like Web surfing, over others, like file sharing. ...more

February 25, 2008

In 1995, the first warning was raised: The throngs of people swarming to the Internet would overwhelm the system in 1996. For more than a decade, that fear has proved untrue. ...more

February 18, 2008

As Internet advertising is increasingly targeted precisely to meet consumers' presumed desires, the trick for advertisers is to sniff out people's interests and needs without riling their privacy defenses. ...more

December 10, 2007

Consumers chafe at having only two choices - phone line and cable - for high-speed Internet service. For businesses, there are often fewer options - the offerings of a phone company - because of the limitations of cable. ...more

November 18, 2007

The post office forwards letters when a person moves, and telephone companies likewise forward calls. Should Internet companies be required to forward e-mail to customers who switch providers? ...more

October 25, 2007