Despite 95% broadband availability, for example, Pew finds that only 66% of Americans are actually using broadband Internet services.
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The comments follow longstanding concerns, expressed at national and European level, over the slow roll-out and take up of broadband internet services in Britain.
The problem with the Ariane rocket also delays the launch of Skynet 5B's co-passenger - a Brazilian satellite called Star One C1 which will deliver broadband internet services to consumers in South America.
Ironically, it was concern by AOL that it would be shut out of high-speed, broadband internet services that led it to advocate "open-access" to cable systems - before it decided to buy Time Warner to assure its access to such services.
The emergence of global players, cheap broadband services and free Internet access services are feeding such growth, the market research company added.
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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All of this requires tying the Internet, broadband services, TV and audio together.
The idea is to speed up the introduction of broadband services, which include telephone, internet, and television services all delivered through the copper wires.
Such services include broadband Internet access, telephony and on-demand video, and they help differentiate cable from its somewhat less expensive rival, satellite TV.
CenturyTel is clearly looking at it from a different angle and would like to dominate the rural landline business and also run other, more expensive services (broadband Internet, television, bundles) through that infrastructure.
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BT's strategy seems to be to wait until all of its would-be competitors have given up, at which point it will have the market for sexy services such as broadband Internet access to itself.
More than 300 million U.S. wireless devices rely on mobile broadband for their voice, data and internet services.
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These companies own big businesses tied to dying services (land-line phones) and low- or no-growth services (such as broadband internet or cable subscriptions), so profits and share prices generally went down.
Verizon has been delivering high-quality video entertainment to its FiOS and High Speed Internet broadband customers since 2005 with online services like Starz Play, ESPN360, Disney Connection, YES Network and NFL Game Extra.
Until recently, Mr. Slim and the broadcasters had been on friendly terms, but tensions rose as technology blurred the lines separating their businesses, prompting Televisa and Azteca to offer "triple play" services: telephone, broadband Internet and TV.
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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But mobile broadband is the fastest-growing category of new Internet access services.
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Indeed, counting mobile broadband, more Americans already have access to high-speed Internet services than have complete plumbing.
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Cox Communications is a broadband communications and entertainment company, providing advanced digital video, Internet and telephone services over its own nationwide IP network.
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That's a critical point for EarthLink, which is seeing the numbers of subscribers to its dial-up Internet service decline faster than it can add subscriptions to new broadband services.
Interestingly, the number of global mobile broadband subscriptions now outnumbers fixed ones by two to one, and mobile internet services showed the biggest growth rates in 2011: 40% worldwide and 78% in developing markets.
Cox Communications is a broadband communications and entertainment company, providing advanced digital video, Internet, telephone and wireless services over its own nationwide IP network.
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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Videotron is a leader in new technologies with its interactive Digital TV service and its broadband network, which supports high-speed cable Internet access, analog and digital cable television, and other services.
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The router, called ASR-1000, allows Internet service providers (ISPs), large companies and universities to move data and integrate services that enable security, voice over Internet, deep packet inspection and the authentication of broadband flow to specific subscribers, all in a single piece of hardware.
Like other telecommunications giants of DT's ilk, the onslaught of cellular and Internet-based telephony, along with cable operators offering triple-play packages of cable, broadband and phone services, has put a stranglehold on profits.
Ofcom has proposed reductions in the prices BT can charge internet service providers (ISPs) in parts of the country where BT is the sole provider of wholesale broadband services.
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