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unusual facts about broadband internet access



Companhia de Telecomunicações do Brasil Central

The broadband service offers the following speeds: ADSL (200 Kbps, 500 Kbps, 1 Mbps, 2 Mbps, 4 Mbps, 10 Mbps, 15 Mbps and 20 Mbps), Wi-Fi (up to 11 Mbps) and Fiber-Optic (1 Gbps, only available for Uberlândia and within a distance of 1 km from the company's headquarters).

Hawaiian Telcom

products = Broadband Internet services, Local wireline services, Television

MagicJack

The firm's first product, introduced in 2007, is a USB device that has both the software necessary to place Internet-based telephone calls via a customer-supplied high-speed Internet connection and the electronics (technically known as a SLIC, or Subscriber Line Interface Circuit) which allow conventional landline telephones to be plugged directly into the device.

MSN Internet Access

MSN was provided by Bell Sympatico, and has been included in older Windows editions (9x, Me) to easily create and connect with dial-up or broadband using a modem.

Spaceway F2

Although SPACEWAY-2 was originally built by Boeing to be used for broadband Internet access via HughesNet, it has been retrofitted to deliver HD local channels (NBC, ABC, CBS, & Fox) to numerous markets nationwide.


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Magdalena Gaj

The team led by her negotiated with the European Parliament a compromise version of the first Radio Spectrum Policy Programme (RSPP) which harmonizes the frequencies in the 800 MHz band on the EU-wide scale for the purposes of electronic communications services and broadband Internet access.

Tiered service

Such systems are frequently seen in the telecommunications field, specifically when it comes to wireless service, digital and cable television options, and broadband internet access.

Universal usability

For example, would a software product be usable to users running Windows XP on a Centrino laptop with broadband Internet access and to those who have Windows 98 on a Pentium II desktop with 56K dial-up?