Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - ADSL

What Does Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - ADSL Mean?
A new technology that provides high transmission speeds for video and voice to homes over ordinary copper telephone wire. It will be most cost-effective in areas with a low market penetration of cable TV.

Investopedia explains Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - ADSL
Sometimes just called DSL, this is considered to be the major competition to cable modems.

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