Internet access

challenge for internet users since the services become more costly and small companies are prevented from healthy competition with larger corporations that have the required budgetary means to make deals with ISPs. Network neutrality also prevents bias behavior against users by insuring that users from diverse socio-economic status have the same access to information. The absence of neutrality could give rise to a situation where priority is given to entertainment’s high-speed internet over…

common questions that are asked is, what is a modem? Well modem is an acronym for (modulator-demodulator) which essentially means that its primary job is to encode and decode binary signals to allow computers or essentially any end systems to access the Internet. Originally, phone lines were used to carry analog information and a converter was needed to decode these signals, therefore the modem was born. Initially, modems were used as a way for Teletype machines (printers) to communicate over…

INTRODUCTION Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) is a rural counterpart of Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB). The difference between them lies in the area of their deployment, i.e. Rural Broadband Initiative is a government initiative to provide high speed internet access to rural areas whereas Ultra-Fast Broadband provides high broadband speeds to the urban areas. Rural Broadband Initiative came into picture in the year 2009 and upon its completion in the year 2016; it will provide broadband to more than…

Did you know that only one-third of the world is connected to the internet? That is 2.7 billion people. Internet.org is a project Mark Zuckerberg, along with six other software and electronics companies, is working on to bring the other four billion on-board (Rusli). The intention is to bring aid to less developed countries by giving them free basic Internet services, such as weather, news, health information, and of course, Facebook. According to Mark Zuckerberg, the objective is to make…

The internet is a tool that people can use to access information. The internet came into use during the 1990s and is known as the world wide web. Cyberbullying started when the internet became a common tool for anonymous users to say upsetting words without thinking of the consequences. Because the internet has only been around for less than twenty years, cyberbullying is a new term that has only been used during the last twelve years. Moreover, most recently the term has been associated with…

In today’s society, an internet connection is a precious commodity that enables the population to communicate with one another, access information, and work. Without an internet connection, people and business cannot compete in today’s world. Likewise, it is important for Texas to develop a better telecommunication infrastructure. Historically, Texas has done a decent job supporting the development of the telecommunications infrastructure. For example, “In 1995, the Legislature created the…

Net neutrality is the principle that all internet traffic should be treated equally [1]. This is an especially appealing idea if you are in the middle of watching the latest episode of your favorite show on Netflix. The neutral state of the internet is what has allowed data heavy streaming services like Netflix to flourish. However, treating all data usage exactly the same cuts into ISP’s profits, since they would have to charge everybody the same, and bandwidth is finite. This would lead to…

Connecting to the Internet at home is becoming a must have for many. Because homes vary in distances from their Internet Service Providers (ISPs), different technologies allow us to establish the connection. While most internet participants have hear of dial-up, Modem, ISDN and fiber connections an even faster connection is near. The new technology, known as next-generation passive optical network, or NG-PON2 is being tested. So what is the difference between a fiber connections to the home,…

Census Bureau, 75.6 percent of homes in America are equipped with a computer (see fig. 1). Schools are also using the internet and computers as an aid in classrooms. This means that not only are children using the computer at home, they are also using them more and more in schools too. But, how much exposure is too much? Years ago, children were thriving without the aid of the internet; does the computer actually make children of this new modern, technology driven world smarter? The…

and textbooks for as long as anyone could remember, but the structure was to transform entirely over the course of one summer. Chromebooks completely altered the high school’s teaching methods, structure, and policies. The school had to upgrade its internet, establish new rules, and pay for the devices. In addition, teachers were forced to completely alter their classes in just three short months to suit the new technology. Instead of reading from books,…