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2. List of broadband providers in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Largest Internet providers in the United States. AT&T Internet Services. Charter Communications. Comcast High Speed Internet (also known as Xfinity) Consolidated Communications (including FairPoint Communications and SureWest) Cogent Communications. Cox Communications. Frontier Communications.

3. White House says 20 internet companies will provide ... - AOL

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   The Biden administration announced Monday that 20 leading internet service providers have agreed to offer basic low cost plans that will be free for millions of Americans after a refund.. The 20 ...

4. Dial-up Internet access - Wikipedia

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   See media help. Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to establish a connection to an Internet service provider (ISP) by dialing a telephone number on a conventional telephone line. Dial-up connections use modems to decode audio signals into data to send to ...

5. Broadband mapping in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Geometric units such as census tracts as well as zip codes have been used. Although the term broadband once had a technical meaning, it is used in marketing and policy to generally apply to relatively high data rate (and thus more expensive) Internet access, while technology changes over time. One 2007 estimate used five speed ranges, with the ...

6. Internet service provider - Wikipedia

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   An Internet service provider ( ISP) is an organization that provides a myriad of services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privately owned . Internet services typically provided by ISPs can include ...

7. Local exchange carrier - Wikipedia

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   Local exchange carrier ( LEC) is a regulatory term in telecommunications for the local telephone company. In the United States, wireline telephone companies are divided into two large categories: long-distance ( interexchange carrier, or IXCs) and local (local exchange carrier, or LECs). This structure is a result of 1984 divestiture of then ...