digital subscriber line
noun
: a high-speed communications connection used for accessing the Internet and carrying short-range transmissions over ordinary telephone lines
—abbreviation DSL
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Broadband includes several high-speed transmission technologies, such as fiber, wireless, satellite, digital subscriber line and cable.
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Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2023
While at Telcordia, Shumate conducted research in such areas as fiber access, digital subscriber line, and powering systems.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2019
The company advertises and sells digital subscriber line (DSL) internet service in several plans, based on download speed.
—Kate Gibson, CBS News, 5 May 2022
That’s still generally better than DSL (digital subscriber line), but downright glacial by 2021 standards.
—Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2020
Hillsdale resident Tod Wohlfarth pays $110 a month for a low-speed digital subscriber line from Consolidated Communications.
—Drew Fitzgerald, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
Residential consumers started to sign up for high-speed internet provided by phone companies (DSL, or digital subscriber line, service) and cable companies.
—Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2019
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Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2023
While at Telcordia, Shumate conducted research in such areas as fiber access, digital subscriber line, and powering systems.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2019
The company advertises and sells digital subscriber line (DSL) internet service in several plans, based on download speed.
—Kate Gibson, CBS News, 5 May 2022
That’s still generally better than DSL (digital subscriber line), but downright glacial by 2021 standards.
—Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2020
Hillsdale resident Tod Wohlfarth pays $110 a month for a low-speed digital subscriber line from Consolidated Communications.
—Drew Fitzgerald, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
Residential consumers started to sign up for high-speed internet provided by phone companies (DSL, or digital subscriber line, service) and cable companies.
—Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 29 Oct. 2019
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