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In June 2009, the company named Mark White, former Governor of Texas, as the special counsel for development of broadband networks in rural areas. [17] In 2015, the company was acquired by JAB Broadband and folded into Rise Broadband. [18]
Fios Internet was the first service offered under Verizon's Fios brand, and is one of three of the product line's current offerings. The broadband Internet service initially launched in Keller, Texas, in 2004, [10] a year before Fios TV was available. [11]
The bill provides funding for broadband grant and loan programs: [119] $4.7 billion to create the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program within the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the Department of Commerce to bring broadband to unserved and under-served areas and to facilitate broadband use and adoption.
On October 19, 1985, the first Blockbuster video-rental store opened, in Dallas, Texas. The store was unique at the time because it offered customers 8,000 tapes on shelves and had a computerized ...
This integration was made possible with advances in broadband technologies and high-speed information processing of the 1990s. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] While multiple network structures were capable of supporting broadband services, an ever-increasing percentage of broadband and MSO providers opted for fibre-optic network structures to support both present ...
Brightspeed of Texas was founded in 1956 as Central Telephone of Texas, [1] a subsidiary of Centel. In 1992, Centel was acquired by Sprint, and Central of Texas began doing business under the Sprint name, but retained its legal name. In 2006, the company was spun off into Embarq when Sprint Nextel spun off its local telephone operations. [2]
Later that year it spun off AT&T Broadband and Liberty Media, which comprised its cable TV assets. AT&T Broadband was subsequently acquired by Comcast in 2002, and AT&T Wireless merged with Cingular Wireless LLC in 2004. The merged wireless phone company operated as Cingular until 2007 when it became AT&T Mobility.
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