But wireless technology is not improving as fast as the kit behind fixed-line internet services did in the 1990s.
But the FCC has attempted to strike a balance by prohibiting fixed-line internet service providers from blocking customers from access to any legal content, applications or service.
There's a reason why the Xbox also works as a DVD player and has a hard drive and an Ethernet connection port on the back suitable for cable modem or a digital subscriber line Internet connection.
And competition between Google, Facebook, Yahoo, fixed and mobile operators to seize control of the data opportunities of a global and very large customer base in mobile (at least 4 times the size of the fixed line internet population) is impacting on other sectors.
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The issue has been muddied as the Internet has blurred the line between journalist and private citizen.
But the line his internet biographers have chosen to highlight is not this.
Watchmaker Timex is out to correct that oversight with its line of Internet Messenger Watches set to hit stores in April.
The new measures now formally require anyone signing agreements to access the internet, fixed-line telephone and mobile devices to provide network service operators with "genuine identification information", known as real-name registration, Xinhua reports.
With the advent of the Internet, however, the line between publisher and distributor became blurred.
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In the autumn of 1993, O'Reilly launched Global Network Navigator (GNN), an on-line magazine and Internet reference guide.
Already a school in Manchester, England has a dozen personal computers connected to the Internet by its electric power line.
The Consumer segment offers wire line services such as internet, telephony and television, and retail and wholesale wireless services.
And why pay for both a phone line and a broadband Internet connection when you only need the latter?
Compaq jumped on the Internet in late 1998 with a line of small-business computers selected to appease resellers, whose focus is big corporations.
They either used a car-broking service or did their window shopping and price comparisons on the Internet and used a broker to line up a local deal.
O2 has sought to counter cost complaints by touting the phone as a feature-packed device with a top of the line MP3 player and Internet browser, not just a mere cell phone.
And while Microsoft currently offers digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet access in conjunction with its MSN online service, it needs a cable modem offering to drive more traffic to all of its Web properties.
Utilities hope that other uses for power line networking could help subsidize Internet service.
Her phone line remains cut, her internet connection shut, visitors turned away by guards posted at her compound.
However, the rapid development of the Internet and the massive unauthorised on-line use of protected content, where the "commercial" element is often missing, have given rise to a lively debate.
The line between television and the internet has come under attack over the past few years, and you can partially thank or blame Sigma Designs CEO and Co-founder Thinh Q.
The National Amateur Body Builders Association (NABBA) said it had not heard of anyone buying banned substances over the internet, but would take a hard line with any members who did.
This merger is about buying the lines that connect to the homes of BellSouth customers and selling them everything you can squeeze down a fiber-optic line, including television, Internet, movies and music.
It would draw a clearer battle line between traditional cellular networks and Internet companies.
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With bulked-up networks, they have poached millions of phone companies' subscribers with cheap voice-over-Internet Protocol plans and sell faster Internet lines than the telcos' digital subscriber line services.
He uses his landline to get internet access, which ties up the phone line, but he faces added difficulties as the mobile phone reception is not great where he lives.
Right now Murdoch's Internet operations don't even rate a separate line item on News Corp.
Big Internet investments risked hurting each division's bottom line, against which bosses are mainly measured.
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Like ordination by the Church of the Internet, this registration can usually be done on line.
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In the search market, on-line content management, browser technology and internet ad placement the game has fully gone to competitor Google.
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