Sentences with phrase «offering slower internet»

As a fun kicker, Google is also offering slower Internet service, with a five megabit per second download speed and one megabit upload for free, if the subscriber pays the $ 300 construction fee.

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The Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to gut its 2015 rules that protected Internet services like T - Mobile's new TV offering from being blocked, slowed, or otherwise discriminated against.

They are that MVNOs have «only» achieved 10 % of the market in the US, that MVNOs «that do offer data are operating on carriers» older, slower and even near - obsolete networks» and that mandated wholesale has failed in the fixed Internet access market in Canada with the implication clearly being why try it again.

Medenica's plan has been to start slow with Internet lottery products, offering just the big multi-state jackpot games such as Mega Millions, which would add perhaps tens of millions of dollars annually for public education.

But if your internet connection is slow or unreliable, or you have plans to grow your use of tablets, you need a connection that can provide you with right speeds; it's a good idea too, to get a contract that offers ease of flexibility so it's easy to change as your use of technology grows in the classroom.

Unlike the Kindle Fire HD, this Kindle Fire is still dependent on the crowded 2.4 GHz band, which makes for slower Internet speeds; when we've tested 2.4 GHz against 5 GHz devices on networks with fast backhaul, we've found that 5 GHz offers faster Web page loads and clearer streaming video.

The lovely Italian gentleman on the reception desk also offered to phone ahead to a couple of hostels in Pisac in order to secure an onward booking for us, which saved us a lot of time struggling with the slow internet connection.

Some might offer showers, hot food items, complimentary alcohol, modern decor, spacious multi-floor seating, and great views of the tarmac, while others might consist of merely a large room with canned sodas, chips, and some painfully slow internet.

There are two or three internet cafes dotted around, offering slow but usable connections, and an increasing number of accommodations now offer wi - fi (eg Scallywags Resort, Beach House.

There is villa - wide high speed Internet Broadband Wi - Fi to keep guests at Tirtarum Villas in touch with the world wide web, and a deep bath tub and outdoor shower offer welcome guests at Tirtarum Villas with the options of slow relaxing and indulgent bathing sessions or the juxtaposition of outdoor, energetic showers.

In a statement outlining what he'd like internet service to look like, Obama highlights four major points: internet providers wouldn't be allowed to block websites offering legal content, they wouldn't be allowed to intentionally slow down or speed up certain websites or services based on their own preferences, and they wouldn't be able to offer paid fast lanes.

The 10 MB app offers the base functions of Facebook's regular Messenger app and is meant for older phones with with slow CPUs and small amounts of RAM and users without access to fast mobile internet connections.

If internet access is available in remote Australia, it is usually via satellite, offering a dial - up service with limited and slow internet speeds.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.