U, a consortium of universities working to encourage deployment of ultra high-speed broadband networks in university towns.

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Empowering the FCC to implement a biased process that favors some companies over others may end up hurting consumers even more by blocking some national wireless carriers from investing in and building out high-speed mobile broadband networks to meet the demands of more than 200 million wireless customers across America.

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By 2020, it called for new and affordable high-speed networks to provide broadband access to 100 million U.S. homes, at speeds roughly ten times current offerings from cable-based providers.

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Time Warner is the second largest cable-TV operator in the U.S. Through its networks AOL can begin to offer high-speed "broadband" services such as video-on-demand and music sales over the Web to a mass market.

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The low latency or delay inherent in high-speed fibre networks made possible novel uses of broadband, he said.

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Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) devices today operate in 555 megahertz of spectrum in the 5 GHz band, and are used for short range, high speed wireless connections including Wi-Fi enabled local area networks and fixed outdoor broadband transceivers used by wireless Internet service providers to connect smart phones, tablets and laptops to the broadband network.

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With mobile data usage on the rise, driven by the proliferation of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets and the ongoing transition to high-speed 4G LTE networks, Dish wants to be able to bundle wireless services with its pay-TV and broadband services in order to better serve customers.

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