Reply to post: Seems they've forgotten what "broadband" actually means

FCC will vote to cut off 41 million broadband users this Thursday*

Steven Roper

Seems they've forgotten what "broadband" actually means

When I was in tech college, the meaning of "broadband" I was given to understand meant that the data was transmitted over a broad band of frequencies or channels, as opposed to "narrowband" which meant the data was sent using a single carrier frequency or channel.

But, just as the media have misappropriated the term "hacker" to mean "cyber-criminal", it seems the term "broadband" has now been misappropriated to simply mean, "internet access that is faster than yours!"

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