You buy the modem from Apple??™s online store or from your local
brick-and-mortar Apple Store.
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digital subscriber line (DSL), coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, and satellite. Since the advent
of broadband, the Internet has taken off in terms of services afforded the common household.
Consider these scenarios:
?– A grandfather in Spokane, Washington can video chat with his granddaughter in Gulf
Shores, Alabama with incredible ease and speed. Why wait until the next family reunion
to see how she??™s sporting that new gap in her front teeth?
?– A nephew can email a short movie clip of himself scoring a touchdown in tonight??™s game
to his uncle on duty in Iraq.
?– Companies can set up board meetings, and every executive can chime in from the
comfort of their own home, car, or golf cart.
?– A young woman in Ohio is about to earn her bachelor??™s degree from a university in
Virginia, without having ever attended a class outside of her home state. She hasn??™t taken
a class outside of her own home, for that matter, because she attends classes via the
Internet with her broadband connection.
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