The e-mail was sent from John Kinnucan, a principal at Broadband Research LLC, who was allegedly asked by the FBI to wear a wire tap.
Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that a major insider-trading investigation includes an examination of small research firms including Broadband Research in Portland, Ore.
As the founder of Broadband Research LLC, Kinnucan was accused of insider trading by corrupting employees at public companies to divulge corporate secrets, which he in turn passed to hedge fund managers.
Overall the research found that broadband users are not getting the speeds they are paying for.
Governments should also encourage investment in knowledge-supporting infrastructure, which ranges from smart electricity grids and broadband internet networks to basic research and university education.
The findings are part of new market data from market intelligence firm ABI Research detailing the mobile broadband transition.
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Then consider this: By 2003, some 20 million homes will have some kind of broadband Internet access, according to market research firm Forrester Research.
New research shows the gap between broadband take up in Wales and the UK has decreased from 10 percentage points to seven in just 12 months.
In the absence of sensible policies that invest in long-term public goods like education or basic research, roads, railways, broadband, a smart electric grid -- an absence of those investments can be equally disastrous.
According to Leichtman Research Group, there are only 33 million broadband subscribers in the U.S., hardly a number that can be considered saturation.
"At this point, there aren't a large number of U.S. homes that don't have broadband available to them at all, " says Jupiter Research analyst Joseph Laszlo.
The research shows clearly that the comfort factor of broadband comes from not having to worry about cost, reliability or being knocked off the net in the middle of something.
At least 80 foreign companies have set up research sites in Korea to tap into this gigantic broadband laboratory.
The Consumer Panel, which advises the regulator Ofcom, said its research shows there is strong public support for universal broadband, which would need to be at a speed that allowed everyone to participate fully in society.
Pacific Crest Securities Senior Research Analyst Steve Clement said that the new mobile broadband company is a pretty good deal for Sprint because it will retain majority control of the entity without having to contribute any cash into the venture.
Those questioned in the research had mixed views on whether the government should subsidise broadband.
According to a report by the Leichtman Research group, cable companies added 853, 000 new broadband subscribers in the first quarter alone of 2011.
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The emergence of global players, cheap broadband services and free Internet access services are feeding such growth, the market research company added.
Broadband download speeds in the UK dramatically fall at peak times, according to new research by online comparison site uSwitch.
Market research firm Forrester Research says that by 2003, 20 million people will have some kind of broadband connection.
In a research note Tuesday, Stifel Nicolaus research analysts Rebecca Arbogast and Dave Kaut said they expect Genachowski to push for greater broadband access across the country, Internet neutrality and greater competition among wireless carriers.
In May research commissioned by the BBC found that about three million homes in the UK have no broadband or speeds of less than two megabits per second (2Mbps).
According to Ipsos Insight, a marketing research consultancy, 56% of Internet users in the U.S. subscribe to broadband service, and that number is expected to climb to 70% by early 2006.
The push towards broadband, which offers a much faster, permanent connection of 512Kbps, has also proved successful, the research suggests.
Market research firm Cahners In-Stat projects that by the close of the year 11.5 million broadband Internet connections (4.6 million DSL lines and 6.9 million cable modems) will be in service.
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