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  2. Broadband - Wikipedia

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    Broadband. Fixed broadband subscriptions (per 100 people) In telecommunications, broadband or high speed is the wide- bandwidth data transmission that exploits signals at a wide spread of frequencies or several different simultaneous frequencies, and is used in fast Internet access. The transmission medium can be coaxial cable, optical fiber ...

  3. Mobile broadband - Wikipedia

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    Mobile broadband is the marketing term for wireless Internet access via mobile networks. Access to the network can be made through a portable modem, wireless modem, or a tablet / smartphone (possibly tethered) or other mobile device. The first wireless Internet access became available in 1991 as part of the second generation (2G) of mobile ...

  4. Streaming media - Wikipedia

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    Super-apps. v. t. e. Streaming media is multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player. Technically, the stream is delivered and consumed in a continuous manner by a client, with little or no intermediate storage in network elements. Streaming refers to the delivery method of content rather than the content itself.

  5. What is broadband? - AOL Help

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    Broadband refers to a connection that transmits a large amount of data at a high speed. A connection having a download speed of 256 kbps or faster is currently classified as broadband. You cannot make and receive phone calls while you are connected to the internet with a dial-up connection. You can make and receive phone calls while you are ...

  6. IP Multimedia Subsystem - Wikipedia

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    IP Multimedia Subsystem. The IP Multimedia Subsystem or IP Multimedia Core Network Subsystem ( IMS) is a standardised architectural framework for delivering IP multimedia services. Historically, mobile phones have provided voice call services over a circuit-switched -style network, rather than strictly over an IP packet-switched network.

  7. Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network - Wikipedia

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    Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network. In the 1980s, the telecommunications industry expected that digital services would follow much the same pattern as voice services did on the public switched telephone network, and conceived an end-to-end circuit switched service, known as Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network ( B-ISDN ).

  8. Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission - Wikipedia

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    The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (Abbreviation: MCMC; Malay: Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia or SKMM) is a regulatory body whose key role is the regulation of the communications and multimedia industry based on the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission Act 1998, the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, and the Strategic Trade Act 2010.

  9. General Packet Radio Service - Wikipedia

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    General Packet Radio Service ( GPRS ), also called 2.5G, is a packet orientated mobile data standard on the 2G cellular communication network's global system for mobile communications (GSM). [1] GPRS was established by European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode packet-switched cellular ...