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Broadband penetration at a crawl in many communities.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 26-MAY-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Broadband penetration at a crawl in many communities.(Focus)

Article Excerpt
Many Mississippi citizens probably don't know the difference between dial-up and broadband. It's a safe bet, however, that most Mississippi businesses do.

And the businesses lucky enough to have access to it are cruising along at the same speed as much of the rest of the world. Without it, however, you might as well be somewhere treading backwater.

Dial-up Internet service is the slowest available; signals are received and transmitted along mostly copper telephone lines. The good news about dial-up is that it's available just about anywhere there is a conventional telephone line.

Broadband, on the other hand, is high-speed Internet service, many times faster than dial-up. High-speed Internet...

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