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DOCSIS 3.1+ gets ready to roll

Light Reading

modems and gateways featuring new Broadcom and MaxLinear chips are quietly making their way to market. The devices will let cable ops ramp up downstream speeds to about 8 Gbit/s without major HFC network upgrades. Next-gen DOCSIS 3.1

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Does promotional broadband pricing make sense to broadband providers today?

Blandin on Broadband

Aside from the revenue, marketing costs are tricky to calculate. RCN prefers that users purchase a cable modem. Under today’s conditions, if your promo price is 50 percent off, your average price over the course of a customer’s two-year lease is only 75 percent full price. On the one hand, good promos bring in more customers.

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Key opponent of ACP extension claims subsidy will inflate prices

EldoTelecom

advanced telecommunications policy and its fraught evolution is fostering a commodity market of “broadband” bandwidth. Its roots date back to the early 1990s and sluggish dialup connections over screeching modems. Going on three decades later, the terms are used to describe a commodity market of bandwidth sold in price tiers.

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Understanding The True Meaning Of Broadband Internet

Airtel

Broadband via cable To understand broadband examples of the traditional type, you must understand the broadband offered by a cable operator. Cable broadband makes use of the coaxial cable lines that are already present in most organisations. This type of broadband uses a fibre-optic cable to transmit data.

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How to Choose the Right Router for Your Small Business?

ACT Corp

But with so many options available in the market, how do you choose the right router for your small business? Connect the router to your modem using an Ethernet cable. A reliable internet connection and a WiFi business plan from the best business WiFi providers is crucial for the success of any small business.

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Tariffs and Broadband: Every Day is a New Day

Broadband Breakfast

Networking equipment such as routers, hubs, switches, modems, chips, as well as essential plastics and electronic components used for broadband and 5G deployments, server racks, and data center infrastructure are likely impacted depending upon country of origin for manufacturing of parts and sub-assemblies for this equipment.

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