While gross margins on its DSL modems are 33% and rising, competitors will someday take those margins away.
We look forward to delivering fast LTE USB modems based on the Gobi technology.
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Domestic prepaid data plans will be rolled out, available for both phones and modems.
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Modems aren't a high priority for those bigger companies, but they're huge for Efficient.
And if the phone companies keep pushing DSL, Efficient should sell millions of modems.
Millions of Americans hold such portable jobs in the age of cable modems and Google .
The speed would be up to 20 times faster than high-speed modems using regular phone lines.
The product can also be used in IP telephony devices and cable modems, the company said.
The company, which makes wireless PC card modems, reported disappointing earnings for the fourth quarter of 2005.
Existing 56-kbps internal or external modems are bundled with EntryPoint's eWallet software and an online shopping tutorial.
Urban customers would all need EtherLoop modems talking to an EtherLoop access device at some central location.
The modems seemed a bit poky, and these machines don't have sufficient memory for much online gaming.
Many smaller hardware suppliers showcase hardware -- including quite a few wireless modems for PCs or notebooks.
Yota Devices is an experienced developer and provider of fast, reliable and elegantly designed modems, routers and dongles.
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In the long run it also seems apparent that sales of modems and disk drives will regain steam.
Modems still lose connections in midstream, and nobody can get a cellular phone signal to the outside world.
It also cemented the association of Internet Explorer with 56K modems that sounded like scratching blackboards with cats.
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Right now the company relies on dial-up ISDN and 56K bps modems for most of its Internet access.
Cable and DSL offer persistent Net connections, or always-on connections, removing squealing, temperamental modems from the picture completely.
This is because the the chipset technology had not matured enough to provide integrated cellular modems with LTE capabilities.
Personal computer users will reap the benefits of the high-speed connection only if they have DSL or cable modems.
The bell curve of human foibles will keep its shape even after 10-mbps cable modems take over our homes.
There was the acquisition of Paradyne, an early leader in modems, that did not evolve with fast changing technology.
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But 2.5G systems still transfer data at more than twice the rate of dial-up Internet modems found in homes.
Marvell's networking ambitions ignited the ire of Broadcom, the leader in chips for network switches, modems and set-top boxes.
So you started getting to the 9600 and 14, 400 baud modems that made the speeds a little more comfortable.
Originally just three guys and a gal in borrowed office space, 1stUp now has 3 million free-surfing its modems.
But it has just 4-5% share of the market for modems, where Qualcomm is also the leader in LTE.
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In addition to phones, all the companies are planning to build these faster networks into data modems for laptops.
There are three streams configured for 28.8k modems, 56k modems and ISDN connections.
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