How to Use broadband in a Sentence

broadband

adjective
  • The emergence of broadband-only homes trend began ten years ago.
    — Brad Adgate, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Getting sub-broadband speed can cost as much or more than a super-fast connection.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • An earth digger used to dig down cables for broadband connection.
    — WSJ, 24 Sep. 2023
  • That provides broadband internet service to users on the ground.
    — Julian Dossett, Space.com, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Many news outlets have also worked to find out what news aficionados want from the broadband medium.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 14 July 2025
  • Players with fast broadband connections stream the games in much the same way Netflix streams movies.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2019
  • The law will expand broadband internet access and repair aging roads and bridges over the next five years.
    — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • And among many other states, Wyoming lost a grant to help expand broadband internet access.
    — Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
  • In fact 38 percent of Black households in the rural south do not have broadband access.
    — Essence, 28 June 2023
  • The rules prevented broadband providers from blocking or slowing traffic to consumers.
    — Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • If broadband providers pick favorites online, new companies and technologies might never have the chance to grow.
    — Klint Finley, WIRED, 9 May 2018
  • Such grant funding is a major driver of broadband expansion in the Bay State.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The Biden-era FCC didn't get very far in analyzing broadband prices.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2025
  • Now, broadband providers can legally pick winners and losers – and even slow down a competitor’s content or charge them more for high-speed delivery.
    — Herb Weisbaum, NBC News, 28 Dec. 2017
  • Alabama is among the 10 states with the least access to broadband internet service.
    — Leada Gore, AL.com, 5 June 2017
  • Time and again, this broadband view has been essential for learning the true nature of mysterious objects in the heavens.
    — Fabio Pacucci, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2023
  • White noise is a kind of broadband sound that includes all the audible frequencies at an equal volume, which sounds like a continuous hiss.
    — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 31 Oct. 2023
  • As audio recordings went digital and broadband spread, clients could ship work to India and the Philippines.
    — Clive Thompson, Wired, 18 Feb. 2020
  • OneWeb representatives said the broadband network was scheduled to be up in Alaska by the end of the year.
    — Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The Tablo Dual also needs to connect to your home’s broadband internet network.
    — Jim Rossman, The Seattle Times, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Tens of millions of Americans and billions of people around the world lack broadband internet access.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025
  • Some in the mayor’s office thought that a lack of affordable broadband Internet access wasn’t helping.
    — Rick Paulas, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2017
  • SpaceX itself plans to create a broadband network using thousands of smallsats in low-Earth orbit.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 5 Aug. 2019
  • In 2011, the fund was expanded to include broadband—high-speed internet—services.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • But by then, broadband providers such as Comcast and AT&T had begun upgrading their networks.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • What to look for The FCC issued a consumer advisory telling broadband users what to look for in the labels.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The broadband labels were required in a law passed by Congress in November 2021.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Only two of the tracts have what the FCC considers wide broadband internet coverage.
    — Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The government plans to sell as much as 49% of the company this year and issue two mobile and broadband licenses to boost competition.
    — John Bowker, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2020
  • In New York City, as in other urban areas across the state, the key barrier to bridging this divide is increasing broadband adoption.
    — Kevin Riley, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2024

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