Aircell's program with NetJets represents the largest order for high-speed Internet service in the history of business aviation.
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Even mighty SBCCommunications, Efficient's largest customer, seems to be losing some of its enthusiasm for the high-speed Internet service.
British Sky Broadcasting, the U.K.'s No. 1 satellite provider, has just trumpeted an aggressive drive into the country's broadband market by offering the high-speed Internet service free to its existing television customers--but it's paying more for the deal than analysts expected.
British Sky Broadcasting (nyse: BSY - news - people ), the U.K.'s No. 1 satellite provider, has just trumpeted an aggressive drive into the country's broadband market by offering the high-speed Internet service free to its existing television customers--but it's paying more for the deal than analysts expected.
Baker, 39, moved to a larger house with all the amenities, but his experience underscored a simple fact that most city-dwellers ignore: Even in a prosperous country like Britain, hundreds of thousands of people still lack high-speed Internet service, particularly in rural areas, where homes are just too far from telephone exchanges to get a megabit connection.
And yesterday, in an attempt to claw back ground from Verizon Communication's joint wireless venture with Vodafone and Sprint Nextel, Cingular yesterday launched BroadbandConnect--its own high-speed wireless Internet service--in 16 markets.
"Our new fourth generation high-speed satellite Internet service is an industry game changer, allowing customers to do more of what they love online, from shopping and social networking to movies and music, " said Mike Cook, senior vice president, North American Division at Hughes.
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Just as many analysts predicted following the two companies' failure to secure any spectrum during last year's FCC auction, both DirecTV and DISH-parent EchoStar have signed agreements with Craig McCaw's Clearwire to provide qualifying customers with high-speed wireless internet service (and by qualifying customers, we mean anyone who lives within a Clearwire coverage zone).
The deal is widely expected to be approved Tuesday by the City Council, making Provo the third city selected by Google for high-speed Internet and television service.
The cable industry has been successful so far poaching voice customers from phone companies with one-bill bundles of TV service, high-speed Internet access and cheap, all-you-can-eat VoIP.
The cable companies' superior technology allows them to offer interactive content and video-on-demand as well as a regular phone service and high-speed internet access.
"Any consumer, anywhere can now enjoy an affordable, high-speed internet bundle that includes DIRECTV service, " said Shannon Campain, senior vice president of Sales and Marketing Operations for DIRECTV.
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The company already has about 5, 000 business customers who buy everything from local phone service to high-speed Internet access, and it is spending heavily on marketing to recruit more.
An all-digital network would create space for lucrative services like phone service, video-on-demand and high-speed Internet.
Any agreement that gives AOL the ability to sell its high-speed service via cable lines not owned by Time Warner would be a huge victory for the struggling Internet service provider.
All users within a couple of hundred feet of the base station who have an inexpensive Wi-Fi device in their PCs or PDAs can then share low-cost, high-speed access to the Internet--without having to pay individually for more expensive dedicated DSL or cable modem service.
In the second quarter, HomeFusion Broadband, a service that provides high-speed in-home Internet access, became available nationwide.
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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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To improve technology access, Microsoft also announced the deployment of a pilot project with the Kenyan Ministry of Information and Communications and Kenyan Internet service provider Indigo Telecom Ltd. to deliver low-cost, high-speed, wireless broadband and create new opportunities for commerce, education, healthcare and delivery of government services across Kenya.
The deal gives Nextlink a toehold in Europe, high-speed data lines, web-hosting and e-commerce services and the right to haul traffic for Internet service providers.
Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) devices today operate in 555 megahertz of spectrum in the 5 GHz band, and are used for short range, high speed wireless connections including Wi-Fi enabled local area networks and fixed outdoor broadband transceivers used by wireless Internet service providers to connect smart phones, tablets and laptops to the broadband network.
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On Monday, Internet service provider EarthLink (nasdaq: ELNK - news - people ) announced the launch of EarthLink Free Online Calling, a similar service which will be made available to the company's 1.2 million high-speed Internet customers.
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