Tech View: Multigigabit internet can benefit many households

We’ve come a long way since dial-up internet service over telephone lines emerged in the early 1990s. Dial-up connections, which offered a maximum download speed of 56 kilobits per second, or Kbps, were quickly surpassed by broadband — digital subscriber line, or DSL, and cable internet with speeds of at least 25 megabits per second, or Mbps.