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Broadband in telecommunications refers to a signaling method that includes or handles a relatively wide range (or band) of frequencies, which may be divided into channels or frequency bins.

Broadband in data can refer to broadband networks or broadband Internet and may have the same meaning as above, so that data transmission over a fiber optic cable would be referred to as broadband as compared to a telephone modem operating at 56,000 bits per second.

Internet speeds appeared to jump shortly before midnight in restive Kashmir

India To Lift Lengthy Internet Clampdown In Kashmir: Official

India to lift lengthy internet clampdown in Kashmir: official

East Coast Struggles To Get Online Amid Outages

A down internet provider is causing headaches for customers.

Comcast Customers Sound Off On Data Caps

Comcast to impose data limits on its Xfinity customers in 17 states in the Northeast, a meter already in place in other parts of the US market.

Verizon Makes Over $6 Billion Deal To Buy TracFone

The deal will bring the well-known prepaid brand under the umbrella of the biggest wireless provider in the U.S.

Verizon Launch 5G WiFi Hotspot For A Remote World

The 5G MiFi M2100 mixes 5G and 4G connections and is aimed at aiding the many employees and students stuck at home.

AT&T Will Find It Hard To Find Buyer For Fading DirecTV

DirecTV has been hemorrhaging subscribers at an alarming rate

Virginia Man Arrested For Yelling Racial Slurs, Spitting At Verizon Employees

Robert Colonna arrived at the store and began screaming at the employees allegedly because a product he purchased was not working.

Workers at the Kenyan port of Mombasa haul ashore a fibre optic cable in June 2009 as part of a scheme to boost internet connectivity in East Africa

Massive Cable Project Set To Give Africa Internet Boost

Massive cable project set to give Africa internet boost

Telefonica said its redundancy plan is part of its effort to adapt its workforce "to the needs of future challenges"

Virgin Media In Talks To Merge With O2

O2, a subsidiary of Telefónica, and Virgin Media, which is owned by Liberty Global, may combine their U.K. assets

Comcast, AT&T Ease Data Caps And Pricing Due To Coronavirus

AT&T is lifting data caps to give greater internet access to customers while Comcast is offering 60 days of its Internet Essentials for free to new customers in low-income houses.

Telemedicine may be useful in coping with the coronavirus epidemic, but many who need it lack access to adequate internet connections

Pandemic Exposes 'Digital Divide' As Schools, Workplaces Close

Pandemic exposes 'digital divide' as schools, workplaces close

Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai said fines against wireless carriers stem from the sale of customer location data without consent

Regulators Move To Fine Telecoms For Selling Location Data

Regulators move to fine telecoms for selling location data

Telcos May Be Fined For Failing To Protect User Location Data

The telecom watchdog believes that carriers may have violated promises made to the U.S. Congress.

Verizon Media To Lay Off 150 Employees

Verizon Media Group is expected to lay off 150 U.S. workers this week.

Johnson and Corbyn went head-to-head in a TV election debate

Labour Party Plans To Provide Free Broadband

A plan by Labour to offer free broadband to all Britons has been widely criticized.

Ice sheets in Greenland and the Antarctic have shed more than 430 billion tonnes per year in the last 10 years

Startup Beats SpaceX Starlink Satellite Speeds, Offers 100Mbps In The Arctic

Kepler Communications becomes the first satellite broadband to offer more than 100 Mbps in the Arctic.

T-Mobile CEO John Legere, seen at a congressional hearing on the merger of the wireless carrier with rival Sprint, would head the new company after the tie-up is completed

T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Finally Approved By FCC: What's Next?

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has given its stamp of approval to the $26 billion acquisition of Sprint by T-Mobile with conditions that it would monitor the commitments made.

AT&T, FTC Settle Data Throttling Complaint

The FTC said AT&T Mobile's unlimited data plans essentially were a bait-and-switch scam that throttled data after consumers used as little as 2 gigabytes.