Broadband services, also known as high-speed internet services, come in two forms, DSL and FiOS, and broadband providers are witnessing greater growth in FiOS because download speeds are up to 5x faster for FiOS than traditional DSL broadband making streaming content, movies and other media easier to view online.
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Wireless broadband provides DSL or faster data speeds that are sufficient to produce tablets that are powerful connected devices that will appeal to business executives as well consumers.
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Sprint 4G Desktop Modem is the perfect cost-effective alternative to wired broadband or DSL connection, can be moved flexibly from location to location, allowing the user to connect to the Sprint 4G network easily and seamlessly without complicated installation and set-up procedures.
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If customers sign up for broadband services or migrate from traditional DSL to FiOS broadband faster than our current estimates, we could see additional upside to our current 12.3% broadband market share forecast by 2016 and an increase to our price estimate.
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It had an OK but hardly exciting telecomm equipment business (equipment for use with DSL broadband and telephone net work monitoring).
Unlike its cable and DSL broadband rivals, satellite isn't "always on, " which is perhaps the one less-desirable feature in my book.
As of June, 2011, 95% of all Americans had access to broadband Internet from cable, DSL, fiber or other wired services.
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Meanwhile, demand for broadband Internet was booming, but DSL was lagging behind.
The speed of Exede Internet service makes it very competitive with wireless home broadband service as well as legacy DSL and many cable services.
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Still China, with 135 million DSL users, is the biggest broadband market.
Market research firm Cahners In-Stat projects that by the close of the year 11.5 million broadband Internet connections (4.6 million DSL lines and 6.9 million cable modems) will be in service.
Networking giant Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people), also takes a platform agnostic but bullish view of the broadband market, supplying equipment for cable, DSL and wireless service providers.
My reasons are many and include the fact that Clearwire is using a wireless technology that is not mainstream (WiMAX) on a portion of spectrum that requires building out many more cell sites than its competitors, and that it has chosen to enter major metro markets already served by wired DSL, cable, and a number of wireless broadband companies.
One problem is "spectrum incompatibility" among myriad broadband designs--T1, ISDN and nine or so flavors of DSL. Their signals move along copper wire in overlapping frequency and modulation schemes.
Still, some analysts say that the misguided debate over DSL versus cable is part of a larger epidemic of hype surrounding broadband.
However, the broadband business has done well due to rising demand for faster Internet and decline of DSL Internet connections.
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Is Verizon's DSL division going to tell us they don't want us sharing our broadband among many computers, too?
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FiOS Internet connections more than offset a decrease in DSL-based HSI connections, resulting in a net increase of 62, 000 broadband connections from first-quarter 2011.
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