Monday, June 25, 2007
Word of the Week: Fraudband
From the Double-Tongued Dictionary:
Fraudband n. low quality broadband Internet service.
The DTD quotes Azeem Azhar in the Guardian, June 14, 2001:
I could add a few definitions:
Fraudband n. low quality broadband Internet service.
The DTD quotes Azeem Azhar in the Guardian, June 14, 2001:
Broadband offers three advantages over vanilla modem connections.…But for the overwhelming majority, it doesn’t allow them to do much they could not do before. Perhaps fraudband would be a better term.
I could add a few definitions:
Fraudband: the fast Internet access they promised yesterday in return for rate relief and tax breaks but never delivered, and meanwhile the telco's dividend went up by exactly raterelief+taxbreaks.Thanks to Matt Oristano for this!
Fraudband: fast wireless Internet access but only for email or Web surfing, but not "p2p" or Internet telephony or video ('cept for their video).
Fraudband: Of course you've got broadband competition, there are 18 providers of broadband in your Zip code.
Fraudband: Universal affordable broadband in every corner of the United States by 2007.
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