New America in the News: 2012

It would likely take a much larger government subsidy to change their minds, said Benjamin Lennett, a policy director at the New America Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute. "It underscores how flawed it is to rely on private companies ...

Still, many Americans pay higher prices for slower Internet service than residents of other countries, according to a study released last week by the New America Foundation. For example, the study found that Hong Kong residents receive Internet speeds that ...

For starters, a weak economy was the largest cause. The CBO attributes $3.2 trillion of the $11.7 trillion shift (about 27 percent) to "economic and technical changes." "We overestimated how good the economy would be, even before the Great Recession," says Marc Goldwein of the CRFB.

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We now have evaluations from the CBO and two nonpartisan groups: the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) and the Pew Fiscal Analysis Initiative. They all point in the same direction.

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BT's 100Mbps fibre optic broadband service has been rated as the fastest available in London by the New America Foundation (NAF). In a new report, the organisation compared broadband connections offering the highest download and upload speeds in 22 ...

Speaking to Ars Technica, a member of the New America Foundation, Benjamin Lennett, says that one of the problems is a “really flawed assumption that telephone companies and cable companies are going to compete with each other.” He says that these ...

A study carried out by the New America Foundation has shown the huge disparity in broadband speed across the world, with some countries enjoying downloads of 1000Mb for just slightly more than UK broadband customers pay for 100Mb fibre optic lines.

"I think he's done just an immense amount to keep this issue front and center — with his colleagues, with the business sector, with every speech he makes," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

The New America Foundation released a study that compared high-speed Internet services across several major cities across the globe. Not only did the U.S. entries miss the top of the list, they didn't even come close. The American cities in this report ranked ...