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The official definition of “broadband” in the US has changed, regulators have announced. The minimum speed required to call a connection broadband will rise from 25Mbps to 100Mbps. That was ...
The advantages of a broadband connection over a dial-up connection include: Connection speeds vary from 10 to 100 times faster than a dial-up connection, allowing you to download pictures, files, software and videos much faster. You no longer have to dial an access number to connect to the internet, freeing your phone line for calls while you ...
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."
Fixed broadband subscriptions (per 100 people) 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.
Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan is a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plan to improve Internet access in the United States. The FCC was directed to create the plan by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 , and unveiled its plan on March 16, 2010.
Now, to see whether the broadband connections widely. One in four web users say they doubt that their Internet connection is always as fast as the service provider advertises, according to a ...
Tens of millions of Americans still don’t have access to high-speed home internet, the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday in a new report highlighting the digital divide.
On February 26, 2015, the FCC's Open Internet rules went into effect when the FCC designated the Internet as a telecommunications tool and applied to it new "rules of the road". "[Open Internet Rules are] designed to protect free expression and innovation on the Internet and promote investment in the nation's broadband networks.