| Cable companies now can provide you with | | | | with ease. You can also watch streaming video |
| hundreds of channels of digital cable TV, high | | | | just as easily as you'd be able to if you were |
| speed Internet access, and digital telephone | | | | watching normal TV, and use streaming audio |
| service all rolled together in to a single low | | | | from Internet radio stations (which often |
| monthly bill. | | | | broadcast the exact same thing as some real |
| When it comes to telecommunications, the leading | | | | radio station) as the sound track of your web |
| cable TV companies can provide you with all of | | | | surfing! You can also prevent domestic discord by |
| the services that you need in your home! For | | | | allowing your whole family to share your Internet |
| example, you can get a top of the line home | | | | connection over a home network! In short, you |
| phone line, that takes advantage of digital | | | | can do a lot more with a high speed Internet |
| technology, for much less than you could from a | | | | connection! |
| traditional phone company. These digital phone | | | | Naturally, these companies still offer TV service |
| calling plans cost about the same amount as a | | | | as well, but the level of quality that's providing |
| basic calling plan from a traditional phone company | | | | through cable TV services these days is a far cry |
| and always offer far more features. For example, | | | | from that of decades past! For example, where |
| advanced features like Caller ID, Call Forwarding, | | | | old fashioned cable TV services maxed out at |
| and Call Waiting are standard fare on plans from | | | | about eighty channels, these newer TV services |
| all of these companies and many of them include | | | | provide over two hundred and seventy five. |
| features like voice mail as well! Another standard | | | | Where the old cable TV transmission technology |
| feature- the one that will really save you a | | | | was analog, digital TV is now the transmission |
| serious amount of money- is free domestic long | | | | format of choice. And where cable TV used to |
| distance. This means that all calls made to | | | | just be TV channels, it's now possible to watch |
| numbers in the United States, as well as Canada, | | | | TV through video on demand services and with |
| are free for any length of time that you care to | | | | the help of a digital video recorder. |
| talk. | | | | Video on demand is a set of technologies that are |
| Another great new feature that many cable | | | | still very much in their infancy, but show a lot of |
| companies now offer is high speed Internet. Not | | | | promise when it comes to giving people greater |
| only is Internet access from these companies a | | | | freedom to watch the TV that they want to |
| great deal, but it's also much faster than other | | | | watch at the times that they want to watch it. |
| forms of Internet access that are commonly | | | | Digital video recording is a slightly older technology |
| available. Even the ones that claim to be high | | | | that gives viewers a similar degree of freedom |
| speed forms of Internet access! For example, | | | | by making it easy to record normal TV shows to |
| DSL can provide download speeds to private | | | | watch at more convenient times. |
| households that are as high as two megabytes | | | | In all, the advancements that have been made by |
| per second. Satellite Internet speeds are about | | | | the cable TV industry provide a lot of benefits for |
| the same. Both of these services though often | | | | a lot of people. Acceller is one of the top |
| have connection speeds that are much lower! The | | | | authorized dealers for many cable and dsl |
| big cable TV companies typically offer Internet | | | | companies throughout the USA. These cable and |
| access with download speeds that are around | | | | dsl companies include Comcast Cable, Verizon |
| eight megabytes per second, or four times faster | | | | DSL, Verizon FiOS, Time Warner, RoadRunner, |
| than that fastest that other technologies can | | | | Bright House Networks, AT&T Yahoo High Speed |
| provide! | | | | Internet, Qwest DSL, EarthLink DSL, Embarq, |
| In general, all of that extra speed means that you | | | | Insight, Mediacom, Hughesnet, Charter |
| can get more out of any amount of time that | | | | Communications, Atlantic Broadband, Buckeye |
| you spend on the Internet. You can spend your | | | | CableSystems, Bresnan Online, WildBlue, Clearwire |
| time using applications instead of downloading | | | | Wireless Broadband and others. |
| them. You can download video files and music files | | | | |