How to Use broadband in a Sentence

broadband

adjective
  • Players with fast broadband connections stream the games in much the same way Netflix streams movies.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2019
  • In fact 38 percent of Black households in the rural south do not have broadband access.
    Essence, 28 June 2023
  • The emergence of broadband-only homes trend began ten years ago.
    Brad Adgate, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • What to look for The FCC issued a consumer advisory telling broadband users what to look for in the labels.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2024
  • OneWeb representatives said the broadband network was scheduled to be up in Alaska by the end of the year.
    Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The law will expand broadband internet access and repair aging roads and bridges over the next five years.
    Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • The broadband labels were required in a law passed by Congress in November 2021.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Getting sub-broadband speed can cost as much or more than a super-fast connection.
    Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • As audio recordings went digital and broadband spread, clients could ship work to India and the Philippines.
    Clive Thompson, Wired, 18 Feb. 2020
  • The weather was ideal, but broadband performance was dismal: 29 megabits down and 24 up.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Alabama is among the 10 states with the least access to broadband internet service.
    Leada Gore, AL.com, 5 June 2017
  • Though the streaming service has seen traffic increases from 54% to 75% in some parts of the country, Wired reported that most broadband providers are rising up to the surge.
    Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 22 Mar. 2020
  • An earth digger used to dig down cables for broadband connection.
    WSJ, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Think about the broadband internet connection at your home.
    Dallas News, 5 Mar. 2020
  • But by then, broadband providers such as Comcast and AT&T had begun upgrading their networks.
    BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • The Tablo Dual also needs to connect to your home’s broadband internet network.
    Jim Rossman, The Seattle Times, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The same is true of the 2000 dotcom boom when Cisco and others were racing to bring broadband internet to millions of people and businesses.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 21 June 2024
  • One of the biggest lines of business for rockets in the 2020s is expected to be the launch of thousands of satellites to provide broadband Internet from low Earth orbit.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Now, broadband providers can legally pick winners and losers – and even slow down a competitor’s content or charge them more for high-speed delivery.
    Herb Weisbaum, NBC News, 28 Dec. 2017
  • If broadband providers pick favorites online, new companies and technologies might never have the chance to grow.
    Klint Finley, WIRED, 9 May 2018
  • Time and again, this broadband view has been essential for learning the true nature of mysterious objects in the heavens.
    Fabio Pacucci, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Only two of the tracts have what the FCC considers wide broadband internet coverage.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 27 Mar. 2020
  • One of the main causes of the present and future spike in satellites is a trend for low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks to provide broadband internet access.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • South Korean internet is the best in world, with average broadband adoption rate of 26.1 megabits.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2018
  • SpaceX itself plans to create a broadband network using thousands of smallsats in low-Earth orbit.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 5 Aug. 2019
  • White noise is a kind of broadband sound that includes all the audible frequencies at an equal volume, which sounds like a continuous hiss.
    Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The rules prevented broadband providers from blocking or slowing traffic to consumers.
    Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The government plans to sell as much as 49% of the company this year and issue two mobile and broadband licenses to boost competition.
    John Bowker, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2020
  • According to the SpaceX website, Starlink is the first and largest satellite constellation to travel in a low Earth orbit to deliver broadband internet across the globe.
    Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2024
  • About 20 sites on the volcano’s slopes and the two paths identified as most at risk of a lahar now feature broadband seismometers that transmit real-time data and other sensors including trip wires, infrasound sensors, web cameras and GPS receivers.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 23 June 2024

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