Broadband Internet - Why Purchase Service Online?

You've made the decision to purchase broadband internet access for your home or office. What's your next step? Do you contact your local provider directly and sign up? This is certainly and option, but one that may not be in your best interest.

Contacting one local provider may not be your best option because it limits your choices. It limits the specials available to you. You see, the competition for your business is fierce. There can be a number of vendor choices each offering the same or different access methods and specials. There's cable access, DSL access, satellite access. Each comes with it's own pro's and con's.

You might live in an area where all three-access methods (not counting dial-up) are available. You may live in an area where only 2 or even 1 vendor is available. How do you know? Which do you choose?

The simple way is to contact the one vendor you know of, but there is another way. Use an online-brokered service.

These services should be FREE to you and provide information as well as quotes from multiple vendors within your area. There are many services available on the internet for you to access this information. Of course we'd like you to use our service, free of charge, but any service you find should provide you with the following.

Information - It's critical that you be provided with the information you need to make informed decisions.

Quotes for service - You should be allowed free access to quoting software that will search out and report back all the available vendors within your area. This quote should be free to you as well as identify who the vendor is, what type of service it is, detailed technical information about the service, price, contract length and what specials are available to you.

Lastly, there should be something in it for you as well. When searching for these types of services, don't forget to see what's in it for you! For one, our service offers rebates in addition to the vendor specials. Ok, we're biased here because we believe our service is the best, but other sites probably offer the same incentives. Also look for another level of support. You can go directly to the vendor of your choice with questions about modems, routers, email accounts, etc. and then wait until someone from their support group gets back to you. If you've purchased your broadband service using a brokered service on the internet, you should be able to contact them as well. An additional level of service is another incentive to purchasing your service online.

If you contact a single vendor chances are you're not going to receive unbiased information. A broker does provide unbiased information because they are not tied to a single provider. Having access to multiple providers with multiple access types allows the flexibility to search out and find the 'appropriate' service and the best price and provides value for using the service.

In closing, find a service that is FREE for you to use and provides the information, quotes for service and provides value to you in the way of cash rebates, information and another level of support.

Enjoy your broadband internet experience.

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Unraveling the Mysteries of Broadband Internet Service Providers

Broadband internet service providers are widely varied and offer several different connection forms. Broadband can be separated into several different categories, such as cable, DSL, and satellite.

The major benefit of broadband service over dial up service is the website uploading speed. The speed increases exponentially when changing from dial up to broadband service, which saves you time and energy. Broadband is also always on, so you do not need to connect to it each time you want to use the internet.

One broadband internet service provider is your local cable company. They have unsurpassed speed and ease of use. Each time you turn on your computer your internet connection is ready and waiting on you and you do not need to take the time to connect to it as it is already connected. The cost is sometimes a stumbling block for internet users, but these broadband internet service providers sometimes offer package deals with your cable TV service or a slower access speed for a reduced price. You need to ask if there are any deals when choosing this service. All they can tell you is no.

DSL has better speed than dial up service also. Several broadband internet service providers offer DSL service. One of the drawbacks of this service is that it is distance sensitive and only works well within three miles of the central office. It is very dependent on the phone lines and any static or disruption will cause disruptions of your service also. Ask neighbors if they have DSL and if they do, what their experience has been with DSL. Word of mouth is the best way to find out the pros and cons of any broadband internet service provider.

Satellite broadband service internet providers offers a service that many rural or out of the way areas are not offered from their cable company or other providers. This is a plus to many customers who would not have internet service without the satellite providers.

Broadband internet service providers offer a service that millions of customers use everyday. The key is to research the type of service that you want to use-whether cable, DSL, or satellite and find the right choice for you and your family. Compare the web speed, features and cost in your decision and enjoy surfing the web with the speed and convenience that you will love! What more could you want?

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In India, Broadband means a 3G connection

When it comes to broadband, it seems Indians will increasingly be using 3G wireless connections to access the Internet. Research from Telegeography shows that at the end of the first quarter of 2011 there were only 11.5 million wired broadband subscribers in India — a pittance given that broadband was first rolled out in 2003. In comparison, 3G growth has been explosive.

At the end of March 2011, there were 12.2 million 3G connections, even though 3G was first introduced in India in late 2009. 3G has become widely available in recent months as companies like Bharti Airtel and Vodafone have introduced their 3G services. Telegeography estimates that 3G subscriptions jumped 73 percent in the first quarter of 2011 (which ended on March 31, 2011).

In a conference call with analysts earlier this week, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs noted that Indian operators “are making plans to increase 3G coverage from over 100 cities today to over 1,000 towns by the end of the year.” What that means is that 3G will become an increasingly important way to access the Internet. Jacobs pointed out that his company was selling chips to makers of affordable handsets and devices that are using HSPA+ technologies. Some of them, like Spice G-6550, cost as little as $90. The emergence of cheap 3G phones should provide a nice boost for Google’s Android OS ecosystem, a point we noted last year.

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ISPs join the copyright fight, put broadband on the line

A new voluntary effort by the major U.S. Internet service providers to help enforce copyright restrictions and protect content owners from pirates, parodists and cheap teens who are sharing files could result in some folks losing access to their broadband. The effort — which is dubbed the “Copyright Alert System” — includes Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner Cable and Verizon.

The agreement codifies much of what ISPs do now when faced with complaints from content owners. But instead of a mere notification system for broadband subscribers, it also gives ISPs a chance to slow, block or cut off a misbehaving subscriber’s broadband access. This document describes the alert system and details of the plan.

If a content owner complains, the ISP will provide notifications to the subscriber that they may be hosting infringing content. The ISPs won’t share the subscriber’s name with the content owner, which is good. However, the ISPs have agreed to punish repeat offenders at their discretion using a six-strike system. The escalation looks like this:

The kicker for all of this is that a customer who finds themselves at the latter stages of this process would have to go before an independent reviewer to halt or contest the mitigation, and that review comes at a cost of $35. The bottom line is that if a copyright owner takes it into his or her head to go after a subscriber, they can — and now your ISP has promised to help (although there is some foot-dragging here on the part of ISPs who don’t want to become enforcers). And if you want to contest the issue it’s go to court or pay a $35 fee so your case can be reviewed.

As it stands, this could be less anti-consumer than other three-strikes laws, but it does bring up a somewhat existential question about broadband access — namely, does your provider have the right to cut it off? Costa Rica and other countries have named broadband as a fundamental human right. One might argue in the U.S. it’s an important element of having true freedom of speech. And since this is a voluntary consortium of private companies that would be taking action here, placing broadband access under some kind of legal protection throws the legitimacy of any effort to cut it off into doubt.

Many content companies are known to be overly vigorous in protecting their rights to music, movies and whatnot, while consumers can be confused by fair-use, personal use and other exceptions to the copyright rules. It’s not hard to imagine something like this person’s video of her baby dancing to a Prince song resulting in a draconian response. In that case she fought, but when faced with a series of emails, acknowledgments and eventual mitigation measures — that also come with a $35 fee just to contest the issue — how many people are going to fight to keep their video online?

Meanwhile, the FCC had its usual non-committal response to the effort. Hopefully the courts won’t prove so tepid if cases are brought before them. The FCC response:

“Today’s announcement of a voluntary, cooperative effort to combat online copyright infringement is a positive development. As the Commission has recognized, copyright infringement has serious adverse consequences for the economy, and efforts to address this issue can and must co-exist with robust protections for Internet freedom and openness. We look forward to the recommendations of the organization that will be created as part of this effort.”

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