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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 Internet Outage Leaves Users Struggling To Get Online

A down internet provider is causing headaches for customers.

Comcast Customers Sound Off On Data Caps, Telecom Company Responds Back

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.

Here’s What Verizon Stands To Gain From Its Acquisition Of TracFone

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

Verizon And Inseego’s New 5G WiFi Hotspot Has Remote Workers And Students In Mind

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

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

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"

Brave New World For UK Telecom-Media: 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

AT&T, Comcast Ease Data Caps And Prices On Internet In Response To COVID-19 Spread

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

FCC May Start Fining Carriers For Not Safeguarding User Location Data

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

Verizon Layoffs: 150 Employees To Be Laid Off From Media Group

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’s Party Plans To Nationalize Telecoms, Provide Free Broadband Derided And Mocked

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, First To Offer 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; $60 Million To Be Refunded To Consumers

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.

Netflix will be facing tougher competition from rivals including Disney+ which is set to launch November 12

How To Get Disney+ Free For A Year

Eligible Verizon customers will have access to Disney+ free for one year.

SpaceX, Elon Musk Wants To Launch 30,000 More Starlink Satellites

Elon-Musk led SpaceX has sought permission to launch 30,000 more low-earth orbits (LEO) satellites for its Starlink broadband network.

T-Mobile, Sprint Merger A Big 'Win' For Rural America, DOJ Official Says

The T-Mobile Sprint merger is good for rural America said the latest news on the T-Mobile Sprint merger that quoted a top official of the Department of Justice.

High Speed Internet Across The US? What Elizabeth Warren Plans To Do To Expand Accessiblity

Much of rural America struggles to get high speed internet, a problem a potential Elizabeth Warren administration would hope to solve.

AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, And T-Mobile Lawsuit: What Does It Mean For Customers?

AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, And T-Mobile sued over the sharing of geolocation data to a broker that provided the information to law enforcement without the consent of their customers.

Is Verizon Texting Down? Customers Unable To Send Messages After Unexpected Outage

Verizon customers are complaining after facing technical issues Tuesday morning. Many have complained about not being able to send or receive text messages on their cell phones.

Verizon Media Layoffs: 7 Percent Of Media Division Staff To Be Cut

Verizon Media will be laying off 7 percent of its media divisions staff, including workers at HuffPost, Gannet, and Buzzfeed.

Verizon To Reorganize Business Segments

Verizon Communications Inc said on Monday it will reorganize its business segments into Consumer, Business and Verizon Media Group/Oath to focus on the types of customers it serves.