broadband
- noun
- /ˈbrɔːdbænd/
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- We both think the Bush administration has done too little to promote broadband in the United States.
- broadband access
- broadband connection
- broadband Internet
We need to be investing in full fibre broadband for everyone.
- We need to be investing in full fibre broadband for everyone.
- And there's no question that at least right now, the cable broadband is, is the superior service.
- It had government funded high bandwidth, low latency broadband, which meant that the product would work.
- I'm sitting in my house with Netflix with, with a high speed broadband.
- Or your satellite TV or, or your, you know, your Starlink antenna getting broadband from Elon Musk's constellation.
- So they thought maybe they're coming to an eastern US city and they would come to and South Korea's got amazing broadband.
- So your broadband, your water, your energy, your council tax.
- The home became an enterprise massive amount of upgrades on broadband and IoT.
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After all, Americans are adopting broadband faster than they have adopted almost any other technology in history.
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OK, let me get all the broadband here first.
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And you know, we talk in the United States about broadband, fast Internet.
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The UK still has relatively poor super fast broadband and far too many mobile not spots.
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We invest in broadband and science education and science grants.
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We need to be investing in full fibre broadband for everyone.
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Everyone has broadband now we can do VoIP in our pockets with mobile phones.
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Last year, the number of U.S. consumers and businesses adopting broadband jumped by 34 percent to about 38 million lines.
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And SpaceX is deploying satellite broadband across the US next year, which might mean in the next five years or never.
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Many households now rely on broadband for streaming movies and online gaming.
Synonyms
A way to get fast internet using a regular phone line
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Etymology
Broadband combines broad 'wide' and band 'range' or 'strip', like a wristband, to mean a 'wide band' of frequencies. That's why a broadband connection is a fast internet service that uses a wide range of frequencies to send lots of data at the same time.