EC285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Project Loon, Digital Subscriber Line, National Broadband Plan
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The technology used was the same as that used for regular phone calls, and a session would end when one side disconnected. For some in canada, dial up is still the only practical method of obtaining an internet connection, but these people are very much the minority now. Broadband: a term used for bandwidths that might loosely be described as better than dial up . It is used to described always-on connections with average bandwidths in excess of that afforded by a dial-up connection. Average because some broadband technologies -satellite and wireless internet access for example -can have horrible problems with jitter. In the us, the federal communications commission (fcc) determines minimum broadband bandwidths. E. g. minimum broadband bandwidth (for downloads) of 25 mbps from jan 2015. Canada is the only g7 country without a national broadband plan. Canada"s currently sets a minimum broadband bandwidth (for downloads) of a mere 1. 5 mbps.
