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Different criteria for "broad" have been applied in different contexts and at different times. Its origin is in physics, acoustics, and radio systems engineering, where it had been used with a meaning similar to "wideband", [4] [5] or in the context of audio noise reduction systems, where it indicated a single-band rather than a multiple-audio-band system design of the compander.
While Verizon claimed it was a long-term business decision (instead of a carriage dispute), The Weather Channel launched a campaign to urge viewers to contact Fios about restoring the cable channel and its services. [23] It was announced on June 19, 2019, that The Weather Channel would return to Fios carriage beginning June 24, 2019. [24]
Originally the word "broadband" had a technical meaning, but became a marketing term for any kind of relatively high-speed computer network or Internet access technology. According to the 802.16-2004 standard, broadband means "having instantaneous bandwidths greater than 1 MHz and supporting data rates greater than about 1.5 Mbit/s."
In the 1990s, the National Information Infrastructure initiative in the U.S. made broadband Internet access a public policy issue. [23] In 2000, most Internet access to homes was provided using dial-up, while many businesses and schools were using broadband connections.
The roots of Prodigy date to 1980 when broadcaster CBS and telecommunications firm AT&T Corporation formed a joint venture named Venture One in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. [5] The company conducted a market test of 100 homes in Ridgewood, New Jersey [6] to gauge consumer interest in a Videotex-based TV set-top device that would allow consumers to shop at home and receive news, sports and weather.
Wireline broadband availability showing locations where the maximum advertised download speed is 3 Mbit/s or more (December 2012). [7] In 2019, Microsoft criticized the FCC for relying on ISPs to self-report availability, and said internal usage data indicated the FCC maps overstate actual availability.
AT&T Broadband LLC was an American digital cable television and telecommunications provider that served as the cable operations division of AT&T.It was founded in March 1999 when AT&T acquired the assets of TCI and renamed it to AT&T Broadband.
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]