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Top 10 Significant Milestones in Modern Radio

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Broadband - circa 2000

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Broadband - Moving users from dial-up speed to broadband was like manna from Net Heaven.

Significance: broadband provided the "power" Internet Radio needed to evolve from choppy and “buffering” audio to continuous streams of higher fidelity.

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