Broadband Internet is achieved over coaxial cable by using cable modems to convert the network data into a type of digital signal that can be transferred over coaxial cable.

Broadband DSL represents about 56 % of the total Internet subscribers.

* Broadband Internet access in Ireland

Broadband Wireless Internet Service Provider Licenses:

Dial-Up is still the main system, although Wireless and Broadband Internet are recently being introduced.

Yun, Kyounglim, Heejin Lee and So-Hye Lim, The Growth of Broadband Internet Connections in South Korea: Contributing Factors, Asia / Pacific Research Center, Stanford University ( September 2002 ).

As examples, Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV ( HbbTV ) set-top boxes allow traditional TV broadcasts, whether from terrestrial ( DTT ), satellite, or cable providers, to be brought together with video delivered over the Internet and personal multimedia content.

Telefónica is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV ( HbbTV ) initiative ( a consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies including SES, OpenTV and Institut für Rundfunktechnik ) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface, and has run pilot HbbTV services in Spain.

Two examples are the Internet browsing consoles provided in some UK McDonald's outlets, and the BT Broadband Internet public phone boxes.

* Broadband Internet access

* Broadband Internet subscribers: 372, 818 or 3. 6 % ( 2009 ), 43, 845 or 0. 4 % ( 2006 )

** Telstra Bigpond Broadband ( Live Internet Coverage )

* Broadband Internet access in Norway

Broadband Internet access ( cable and DSL ) has been replacing dial-up access in many parts of the world.

Broadband Internet became prevalent in the majority of homes in Israel.

The services which those companies provide have long ago passed only the bounds of vocal conversations and currently provide also SMS Text messaging, Videoconferencing and Broadband Internet access.

* In 2003 New Zealand ISP Xtra used The Jetsons as part of an advertising campaign with George Jetson promoting the benefits of Broadband Internet.

* Broadband Internet access

Telewest, formerly Telewest Broadband and Telewest Communications, was a cable Internet, broadband internet, telephone supplier and cable television provider in the United Kingdom.

Broadband became a marketing buzzword for telephone and cable companies to sell their more expensive higher data rate products, especially for Internet access.

In the US National Broadband Plan of 2009 it was defined as " Internet access that is always on and faster than the traditional dial-up access ".

There are several kinds of access interfaces to ISDN defined as Basic Rate Interface ( BRI ), Primary Rate Interface ( PRI ) and Broadband ISDN ( B-ISDN ).

Broadband internet access with unlimited international traffic is rarely offered by ISPs to the market at significantly higher price.

Broadband internet access is becoming more readily available in Russia, and as a result the internet is growing as an avenue for Russian commerce, with 42 % of internet users in Russia shopping online, and 38 % using online banking services.

Broadband access Venezuela is provided through ADSL, Cable, Satellite, EDGE, EV-DO, WiFi Hotspots and more recently WiMax.

Since 2010, Branson has served as a Commissioner on the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, a UN initiative which promotes universal access to broadband services.

* Broadband wireless access

Broadband access covering wireless and fixed line is readily available.

Broadband access is serviced primarily by City Broadband ( Ethernet Broadband-Over-Fibreoptic ), TMnet, MyKris, NTT MSC ( formerly ARCnet ) and recently Air Broadband which has announced its test pilot plans in Cyberjaya for Wimax.

As of May 13, 2012, Shutesbury still has no means to provide access to high-speed internet to any of its inhabitants ( aside from universal-placement satellite uplinks ); The Boston Globe ran a story in 2005 describing Shutesbury and its neighboring town, Leverett, as one of " America's Broadband Black Holes ".

Broadband open access is an issue of policy debate in telecommunications, regarding whether or not companies which own broadband telecommunication infrastructure ( such as cable operators ) should be required to provide access to their facilities for competing businesses which do not own physical infrastructure.

Broadband open access has also brought on many questions of how services to competition is offered, such as unbundled access services sold to the new company.

This service is made available, at no additional cost, to Optimum Broadband subscribers, and is available at over 14, 000 locations across Long Island, NY, parts of NJ and CT. Cablevision has reported a double digit reduction in subscriber churn since launching Optimum Wi-Fi, even as Verizon has rolled out FiOS, a competitive residential broadband service in the Cablevision footprint.

Broadband is now available in Ireland via DSL, Cable, Wireless and Satellite.

* Sure ( Mobiles only, Broadband and Home Phone is operated by Manx Telecom landlines )

Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network ( BISDN ) is another ISDN implementation and it is able to manage different types of services at the same time.

* ACD. net, is a fiber optic Broadband provider located north of Old Town

Broadband applications benefit from low-latency communications, so LEO satellite constellations provide an advantage over a geostationary satellite, where minimum theoretical latency is about 125 milliseconds, compared to 1 – 4 milliseconds for a LEO satellite.

* IBM Power Architecture weekly magazine ( Effective March 31, 2011, the Cell Broadband Engine Resource Center on developerWorks is no longer available )

The advert ended with George saying that " Broadband is the way the future, but some people will never get used to progress " showing an image of Fred Flintstone using a stone shaped computer with a real mouse.

Broadband by satellite service is available from Wild Blue and HughesNet.

KLM Telephone Company, a rural telephone company, and its owner, American Broadband, is based in Rich Hill.