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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. high-speed Internet subscriptions soared 33 percent last year to 50.2 million lines, according to the latest data released by the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday. More consumers signed up for digital subscriber line (DSL) service from telephone companies like AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. than cable modem service from companies like Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Inc.. DSL subscriptions jumped 5.7 million lines versus cable...
NEW YORKÂ -- Middle- and working-class Americans signed up for high-speed Internet access in record numbers in the past year, apparently lured by a price war among phone companies. Broadband adoption increased 59 percent from March last year to March 2006 among U.S. households with incomes between $30,000 and $50,000, according to a survey to be released Monday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. It increased 40 percent in households making less than $30,000 a year. Among blacks,...
By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Verizon Communications and other U.S. local telephone companies will be freed from numerous regulations on their high-speed Internet services, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission decided on Friday. The agency unanimously agreed to treat the service, known as digital subscriber line (DSL), as an "information service," which insulates it from many traditional telephone rules, such as requirements to lease network access to competitors. The...
By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. communications regulators on Friday lifted regulations on high-speed Internet services offered by local telephone companies like Verizon Communications, in an effort to boost fast Web access. The Federal Communications Commission unanimously agreed to treat the service, known as digital subscriber line (DSL) broadband, as an "information service," which insulates it from many traditional telephone rules like requirements to lease network access...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. communications regulators on Friday will vote on a measure that would ease rules on high-speed Internet service offered by local telephone carriers, a Federal Communications Commission source said. The agency plans to consider treating the service, known as digital subscriber line (DSL), as an "information service" -- which would insulate it from many traditional telephone rules, such as requirements to lease network access to competitors at regulated rates. The...
Never-before-seen areas of ship revealed in 2-hour television event premiering Sunday, July 24 at 9 PMJames Cameron, Oscar-winning writer/director/producer of the blockbuster film Titanic, will make his last trip to the doomed ship this summer as part of an unprecedented television event. LAST MYSTERIES OF THE TITANIC, a poignant farewell to the most spectacular shipwreck in history, will have its world premiere Sunday, July 24th at 9 PM on Discovery Channel. Utilizing newly developed...
Never-before-seen areas of ship revealed in 2-hour television event premiering Sunday, July 24 at 9 PMJames Cameron, Oscar-winning writer/director/producer of the blockbuster film Titanic, will make his last trip to the doomed ship this summer as part of an unprecedented television event. LAST MYSTERIES OF THE TITANIC, a poignant farewell to the most spectacular shipwreck in history, will have its world premiere Sunday, July 24th at 9 PM on Discovery Channel. Utilizing newly developed...
Never-before-seen areas of ship revealed in 2-hour television event premiering Sunday, July 24 at 9 PMJames Cameron, Oscar-winning writer/director/producer of the blockbuster film Titanic, will make his last trip to the doomed ship this summer as part of an unprecedented television event. LAST MYSTERIES OF THE TITANIC, a poignant farewell to the most spectacular shipwreck in history, will have its world premiere Sunday, July 24th at 9 PM on Discovery Channel. Utilizing newly developed...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- SBC Communications Inc. (SBC), the nation's second-largest local phone company, on Wednesday announced it will offer high-speed Internet access service for only $14.95 per month when new residential subscribers order SBC Yahoo DSL Express online. The limited-time-only price, which undercuts many rivals' dial-up Internet access plans, is applicable with a 12-month term. For customers wanting faster Internet service, the SBC Yahoo DSL Pro service is available for $24.99 per...
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c10195) has announced the addition of China Telecom, China Netcom: China's Broadband Backbone to their offering. The Chinese broadband internet access service market is divided into three segments: DSL, cable modem, and FTTx+LAN. FTTx+LAN was the predominant technology until 2003, when DSL overtook it as the mainstream technology. The steep increase of DSL subscribers in 2003 was mainly due to China Telecom's and China...
Latest DSL Reference Libraries
Image Caption: Schematic showing how DSL works. Credit: Jhbdel/Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) The term DSL or ADSL (a higher speed connection) is the technology of delivering an Internet connection over wires using a local telephone network. A filter is used to block high frequency interference, enabling the user to have access to the Internet as well as use of the phone simultaneously. The rate of data transfer usually ranges from 256 kbps to 40 Mbps downstream (to the customer) and the data...
