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This is a sortable list of broadband internet connection speed by country, ranked by Speedtest.net data for March 2024, [1] and with M-Lab data for June 2023 [2] Country/Territory Median
Cable Internet access at minimum speeds of 100 Mbit/s and up to 1 Gbit/s in most markets [89] Verizon: 8,510,000 [85] DSL access at speeds of 0.5 to 15 Mbit/s, fiber access (FiOS) at speeds of 50 Mbit/s to 2 Gbit/s, and fixed wireless broadband with speeds up to 940 Mbps [90] [91] Cox: 5,560,000 [85] Cable Internet access at speeds of 5 Mbit/s ...
Internet telephony is a common communications service realized with the Internet. The name of the principal internetworking protocol, the Internet Protocol, lends its name to voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). The idea began in the early 1990s with walkie-talkie-like voice applications for personal computers. VoIP systems now dominate many ...
The following people are Internet pioneers who have been recognized for their contribution to its early and ongoing development. These contributions include theoretical foundations, building early networks, specifying protocols, and expansion beyond a research tool to wide deployment. This list includes people who were:
In telecommunications, broadband or high speed is the wide-bandwidth data transmission that exploits signals at a wide spread of frequencies or several different simultaneous frequencies, and is used in fast Internet access. The transmission medium can be coaxial cable, optical fiber, wireless Internet , twisted pair cable, or satellite.
The World Wide Web enabled the spread of information over the Internet through an easy-to-use and flexible format. It thus played an important role in popularising use of the Internet. [49] Although the two terms are sometimes conflated in popular use, World Wide Web is not synonymous with Internet. [50]
A huge jump in broadband internet usage globally – for example, from 6% of U.S. internet users in June 2000 [179] to what one mid-decade study predicted would be 62% by 2010. [180] By February 2007, over 80% of U.S. Internet users were connected via broadband and broadband internet has been almost a required standard for quality internet ...
Some three months after Telstra Internet became operational a new link to the USA was purchased bringing the capacity to 45 Mbit/s and followed three months later by an additional 45 Mbit/s link such was the growth of the internet in 1995/96. A further early provider was the not-for-profit Australian Public Access Network Association (APANA).