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What are its advantages ?
Broadband is an important tool for expanding educational and economic opportunities for consumers in remote locations.
Broadband allows you to take advantage of services not available or not convenient to use with a dial-up Internet connection, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), an alternative to traditional voice telephone service.
Broadband makes "telemedicine" possible: patients in rural areas can confer online with medical specialists in more urban areas and share information and test results very quickly.
Broadband helps you efficiently access and use many reference and cultural resources via the Internet.
You also need broadband to best take advantage of many distance learning opportunities, like online college or university courses, and continuing or senior education programs.
Connecting to streaming video content is made possible by broadband.
Broadband allows you to shop online more quickly and efficiently.
Source FCC
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