BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Broadband
- a class of transmission system that allows large amounts of data to be transferred at high speed
Wiktionary Definition for: Broadband
- An internet connection with a much larger capacity than dial-up or ISDN.
Additional Resources
- FCC discusses barriers to national broadband plan
- The Federal Communications Commission met Wednesday to discuss obstacles to enacting a national broadband policy that will provide high-speed Internet access to every American.President Obama has made universal broadband access a key goal. Grants and loans for helping make universal broadband access a reality have already started being doled out...
- News items 2009-11-18
- What Is Broadband? FCC Doesn't Know
- In the middle of its massive review of broadband in America, Federal Communications Commission seeks an answer to a fundamental question: just what is broadband?As required by the ARRA American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a.k.a. the stimulus package, the FCC Federal Communications Commission has until February to develop a national...
- News items 2009-08-21
- Broadband economics: Competition lowers prices
- It's a simple principle of economics: competition and more customer choice results in lower prices.And so it is true of broadband services. With about 65 percent of the U.S. population now subscribing to broadband, cable operators and telephone companies are duking it out for new customers. The companies are offering...
- News items 2009-11-19
- Yeah, I'd Like Metered Broadband, Too — If It Were Actually Metered
- With broadband, as with other utilities such as electricity and water, people should pay for what they use, according to an editorial in The Financial Times today. Demand and use of the Internet has risen faster than capacity can keep up, which means that the all-you-can-eat model of unlimited broadband...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Stokes gives broadband a boost with 4G
- Mitchell Bingemann | September 03, 2009KERRY Stokes has cemented his position as Australia's multimedia mogul, after his Seven Network yesterday announced a shake-up to Australia's $30 billion a year telecoms sector by launching the nation's first 4G wireless broadband network.The Seven Network has funnelled $50 million into a new subsidiary...
- News items 2009-09-02
- Spain mandates affordable broadband for all
- Spanish officials said earlier this week that the government will require service providers to offer broadband with speeds of at least 1 Mbps at regulated rates to residents living anywhere in the country. A frenzy over a new Sony Ericsson smartphone at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last...
- News items 2009-11-20
- New U.S. Broadband Subscribers Down 29%
- Here's even more evidence that the U.S. is falling behind in broadband: Leichtman Research Group LRG said Monday that the country's 19 largest cable and telephone providers added just 634,000 new high-speed Internet subscribers in the second quarter. The figure is 29% lower that the number of new broadband subscribers...
- News items 2009-08-18
- Rural Broadband Growth Outpaces Big Cities
- With broadband penetration reaching the saturation point in large markets, rural America experiences the most significant gains in high-speed access over the last two years.While broadband penetration is much higher in metropolitan areas, over the last two years broadband has experienced the most significant gains in rural areas, according to...
- News items 2009-08-20
- Google, Cisco, Other Tech Titans Call for National Broadband Strategy
- It’s time for the U.S. to step up to the broadband plate. A coalition of companies that includes Google, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon, among others, has sent an open letter PDF, asking President-elect Obama and Congress to make broadband deployment a high priority for 2009, according to a CNET report....
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- FCC: Yep, Our Broadband Is Mediocre - And Despite What Mega-ISPs Say, Open Access Rules Help Drive Competition
- Gosh, it seems like only yesterday the FCC was telling us that broadband competition in the United States was incredibly robust based on completely inaccurate data . But not only has the FCC seen a change in leadership, they've made a promise to actually base...
- News items 2009-10-16
- FCC Study: Open Access Lowers Prices, Improves Competition - Agency discovers real science, U.S. broadband mediocrity
- Gosh, it seems like only yesterday the FCC was telling us that broadband competition in the United States was incredibly robust based on completely inaccurate data . But not only has the FCC seen a change in leadership, they've made a promise to actually base...
- News items 2009-10-16
- NTIA, RUS delay broadband grant awards
- If you're a service provider or a local government agency waiting to see if you'll get a funding grant for your broadband project, your wait is going to get longer. Citing ongoing confusion over the application process and the definition of remote areas, the National Telecommunications Industry Association NTIA...
- News items 2009-10-31
- Surplus of applicants for federal broadband stimulus money triggers a delay
- By Tim Conneally, Betanews Everybody is scrambling for his or her broadband stimulus money. 5:00 p.m. EDT today was scheduled to be the deadline for funding applications under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, but because of overwhelming traffic on the government's servers, the deadline has been extended to next...
- News items 2009-08-14
- FCC wants public's help to define ‘broadband'
- WASHINGTON - U.S. telecommunications regulators on Thursday sought public comment on how to define "broadband," a step that could impact how the industry delivers Internet services to consumers. The Federal Communications Commission issued a fact-finding notice on its Web site seeking the public's input as it drafts a national broadband...
- News items 2009-08-20
- U.S. receives 2,200 applications for broadband funding
- IDG News Service - WASHINGTON - Two U.S. agencies have received nearly 2,200 applications asking for about $28 billion in funding for a first round of grants and loans for broadband deployment. The requests far outpace the $7.2 billion set aside for broadband deployment in a huge economic stimulus bill...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Spectrum Issues Loom Over Wireless Broadband
- It's not often the Federal Communications Commission, wireless carriers and public interest groups all agree on something, but when it comes to spectrum availability its unanimous: the coming mobile broadband explosion can't happen without more commercial spectrum.Both the FCC Federal Communications Commission and the wireless industry agree on at least...
- News items 2009-10-10
- Mobile Broadband Carriers Rail Against Net Neutrality
- Not only is the Federal Communications Commission considering rules that would extend and codify the agency's network neutrality principles for wireline broadband providers, the FCC is also considering extending those rules to wireless networks. Not surprisingly, the wireless carriers found little to like in the proposal.Wireless broadband carriers responded quickly...
- News items 2009-10-22
- FCC Drops Free Broadband Vote
- Under pressure from Congress and telecom carriers, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin decides to drop a vote on a proposal to impose a free wireless broadband mandate on the FCC's next spectrum auction.Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin finally gave in to pressure Dec. 12 from both Congress and the Bush...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Deadline for US broadband grants, loans extended
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The deadline for online applications for the first round of the U.S. government's $7.2 billion program to provide broadband access to all Americans was extended to August 20 from August 14 because of technical problems caused by the high number of applicants. Applicants who started the process...
- News items 2009-08-13
- Leap applies for broadband stimulus grant
- Leap Wireless said it partnered with global nonprofit One Economy to apply for broadband stimulus money that would provide wireless broadband to low-income people in five cities. The announcement is notable in that some of the country's largest telcos, including AT&T, Verizon Communications and Comcast, decided not to apply for...
- News items 2009-08-18
