SONY PLANS BROADBAND SERVICE.Taking another step toward transforming itself into an information technology and network company, the Sony Corp. announced plans to begin offering corporate clients broadband Internet access Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just "broadband", is high speed Internet access—typically contrasted with dial-up access over modem. Dial-up modems are generally only capable of a maximum bitrate of 56 kbit/s (kilobits per second) and require the full use of a over a wireless telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. system this summer. The service, initially aimed at small- and middle-size businesses, will be introduced in July in major metropolitan areas like Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. For a basic rate of 70,000 yen ($654) a month Sony's clients will be able to send and receive data using a broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). telecommunications networks A telecommunications network is a of telecommunications links and nodes arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links and through various nodes. operating at a rate of 1.5 megabits a second. |
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