Sentences with phrase «slow internet access»

Low - income studentsare twice as likely as affluent students to have slow internet access at their schools.

Students in remote rural America are twice as likely as urban / suburban students to have slow internet access at their schools.

WASHINGTON, DC — In advance of this morning's major announcement from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler on the federal E-rate program, a new report released today by the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission, and authored by Dr. John B. Horrigan, a leading authority on broadband adoption and use, shows that African American, Latino, low - income, and rural students are more likely to be in schools with slow internet access (10 Mbps or less) than their peers and less likely to be in schools with high - speed broadband internet (100 Mbps or more) needed for digital learning.

According to the analysis, 2.75 million low - income students either lack access to high - speed internet or are disproportionately represented among students with slow internet access.

Not exact matches

To do that the six largest broadband providers refused to widen the pipes into their networks, slowing access to huge swaths of the Internet for millions of Americans.

«I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as others, for blocking free expression, for slowing immigration, reducing trade and, in some cases around the world, even cutting access to the internet,» Zuckerberg said during a Facebook conference in April.

Under the rules, Internet service providers like Comcast (cmcsa) and Verizon are barred from blocking, slowing access to or otherwise discriminating against web sites and online services.

Outgoing U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler warned Republicans against dismantling the Obama administration's landmark «net neutrality» protections that bar internet service providers from slowing consumer access to web content.

The rules were adopted to prevent dominant Internet providers like Comcast (cmcsa), Verizon (vz) and Charter Communications (chtr) from blocking or slowing access to web sites and services.

This would bar Internet service providers from creating multiple levels of connection speeds and charging consumers and companies for access to «fast lanes» — a move critics argue will automatically create «slow lanes,» which will make it very difficult for promising new startups to get up and running.

The majority of the debate revolves around the FCC's proposal to eliminate net neutrality, which would allow Internet service providers to create multiple levels of connection speeds, charging companies for access to «fast lanes» — a move critics argue will automatically create «slow lanes.»

If adopted, the new rules would ban large broadband firms like Verizon and Comcast from purposefully slowing down or discriminating against different types of data, but they would allow content providers to pay extra to access a virtual Internet fast lane.

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.

According to eMarketer, only 29 % of Indonesians have access to the internet and connection speeds are slow, largely thanks to challenging geography and a thinly spread population of around 255 million people, which makes it expensive to build a network using underwater cables.

Last year, a study by city Controller Scott Stringer found households with slow or no access to speedy Internet tend to live in poorer neighborhoods across the Bronx, central Brooklyn and East Harlem and the Lower East Side.

However, AAAS will not be liable for damages or refunds should the site become unavailable temporarily or access to the site becomes slow or incomplete due to system back - up procedures, regular maintenance (which typically occurs 8 - 10 am Pacific time each Saturday), Internet traffic volume, upgrades, overload of requests to the servers, general network failures or delays, or any other cause beyond the control of AAAS (including, but not limited to, force majeure events, networking problems, IP address changes) which may from time to time make the site inaccessible for Authorized Users.

Internet operators will therefore have to run systems in both formats for at least several transition years, and perhaps longer, which will add cost and could slow access.

«Older adults have been somewhat slower accessing the internet and using it to the extent that younger adults do, largely because they were not introduced to it through work and school,» she says, «however, internet usage has certainly increased among older adults and, when introduced to technology, they're quite capable of becoming technologically literate.»

However, this no - frills presentation is actually an intentional concession to many of the site's rural users, whose internet access is often slow and ponderous.

Some people have expressed concerns about how firewalls slow down Internet access and make it difficult to use some Internet technology such as videoconferencing and audio transmission.

Even those having a slow internet connection should be able to access it.

Even if the e-Learning market is still considered a «niche» segment within different HR macro segments it is subjected, in both a positive and negative manner, to the influences of sales trends related to smart devices and the increasing spread of the Internet access globally.Other opportunities come from Smartphone devices, considered valuable assets that help improve work productivity, and the concept of Mobile Learning, and ultimately «BYOD» (Bring your own device) a slower trend, but one that will be ongoing for some time.A Breakthrough... without borders!The SaaS Business Model is increasingly present in educational reform, and technology plays a significant role in presenting a key opportunity for education suppliers globally.

And sadly our school's internet is so slow that if we want to have more than 15 kids in the school accessing a website, you have to double them up on computers.

This is, as you might expect, more prominent in rural areas, where internet access is typically quite slow.

Internet access and virtual learning are a challenge as both rural students and their schools contend with slow or no internet conneInternet access and virtual learning are a challenge as both rural students and their schools contend with slow or no internet conneinternet connectivity.

Good e-Reader travels to many conferences and tradeshows every year and if one thing is for sure, Hotel Wi - Fi internet access is getting slower and slower.

Using that feature you can access Amazon's store and some networks such as Yahoo, BBC and others, but that feature is more trouble than it is worth since the feed is slow and wonky and of course all the detail is monotone (think black and white internet) and the print is small.

It's apartments also feature High Speed Internet Access - no more missing deadlines because of slow internet Internet Access - no more missing deadlines because of slow internet internet service.

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Wireless internet access — The WiFi was always available, although the speed was a bit slow at times.

It's apartments also feature High Speed Internet Access - no more missing deadlines because of slow internet Internet Access - no more missing deadlines because of slow internet internet service.

Service is bit slow but the internet website of yours is awesome, easy to access and everybody can operate it easily.

While the Flex 20 feels responsive overall, the 500 GB mechanical drive's slow access times are evident when opening mundane apps like Internet Explorer.

The DDOS attack, which flooded sites with an overwhelming amount of internet traffic, slowed and stopped access to Twiiter, Spotify, PayPal and many more services.

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.

The b version is older, slower, and less expensive but is probably all you need if your main goal is to share Internet access.

As some of you know, I just returned from a 10 day cruise where I had no access to phone calls, and the internet was incredibly slow.