The embedded video player is available to BBC News users who have a broadband connection.
While these products can solve your home wireless service problem for a couple of hundred dollars they do require that you have a broadband Internet connection because the microcell relays your voice and data service requests to Verizon via the Internet.
Today, some 119 countries now have a national broadband plan or policy in place.
The new Verizon wireless connection available via USB modem will connect to the Iris Smart Hub, eliminating the need for homeowners to have a wired broadband connection.
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If you're traveling with a laptop and will have ready access to a broadband connection, you can bypass these technical issues and simply make calls over the Internet.
However, only just over half of households in Shetland have a good level of broadband access.
Outside Cushendall, many people have a slow or intermittent broadband connection but some people can't get it all.
It comes as regulator Ofcom reveals that less than 1% of UK homes have a super-fast broadband connection.
Before Washingtonians could fully digest the election results in early November, there was a mild tremor in the tele-cosmos that could have a significant impact on broadband deployment and hence the U.S. economy.
Well, unlike most media streamers, you'll have to buy MediaPoint through a broadband service provider which will distribute the boxes under their own branding, and you'll presumably have to pay a subscription fee -- hopefully so you can enjoy some WWE Raw.
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The UK government has said it wants to deliver the best superfast broadband network in Europe by 2015, with 90% cent of the UK receiving superfast broadband and everyone else to have access to standard broadband with a speed of at least 2Mbps.
Just a handful of councils have chosen a provider to roll out fast broadband.
Potentially more exciting is the fact that NFLX may need to redefine its target market from broadband households to broadband users as each household may have more than one broadband user at a time.
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More recently, regulators under President Barack Obama have made expanding broadband access a priority.
Now, professors Arvind Krishnamurthy of the University of Washington and Richard Yang of Yale say they have a better way to solve broadband providers' woes.
More than 50 percent of U-verse broadband subscribers have a plan delivering speeds up to 12 Mbps or higher, up from 39 percent in the year-ago quarter.
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According to Parks Associates, 40 percent of U.S. broadband households and 38 percent of Western European broadband households have a DVR (Parks Associates: The Consumer Perspective 2009).
But there will be other requirements that the first iPod didn't have -- broadband and a home network, the latter of which exists in about a third or fewer American households.
In every other developed country in the world policy makers would be thrilled to have a second independent competitive national broadband communications infrastructure, like cable offers, that creates facilities-based competitive benefits of innovation, investment and diversity of choice.
For a more dramatic example, consider the following: An investment in Riverbed Technology (RVBD), a developer of software to accelerate application performance and data transmission speeds on WANs, would have generated a 6x return, versus an investment in Clearwire (CLWR), a provider of portable high-speed wireless broadband services, which would have generated a 0.3x return.
Education applications: Students with broadband at home have a 7% higher graduation rate, according to the Federal Communications Commission.
Have a look at the growth of broadband Internet access, cellular phones.
Power companies and networking startups have spent years touting a technology called broadband-over-power lines, or BPL. In those systems, the utility sends a data signal across existing wires at a much higher frequency than electricity, so the two signals don't interfere.
Demand for wireless broadband services have nearly exhausted available spectrum, creating a crisis that can only be served by allocating additional spectrum for broadband.
More than seven out of 10 people in South Korea have broadband Internet access -- a number greater than any other country.
Multi-million pound plans to roll out superfast broadband across Northamptonshire have moved a step closer after the county council appointed BT as its preferred supplier.
Improvements to the network would also mean that many homes with poor or no broadband will have access to a system operating at speeds at or above 2Mbps.
However, the conventional wisdom was that Comcast had won itself a battle but would ultimately lose the war in spectacular fashion, since the obvious move for the FCC would have been to reclassify broadband access as a Title II "telecommunications service, " which is the same way the agency regulates wireline phones, and ISPs would have suddenly found themselves in a regulatory nightmare.
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Although 59% of households in Wales have a personal computer, only 49% have internet access, and of that number, 54% use a broadband connection.
The events of last year have therefore vindicated Boeing's diversification strategy, even if they have hurt some new businesses, such as a broadband-communications service that was to deliver live television and Internet access at 35, 000 feet, but has only one customer, Lufthansa.
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