BROADBAND is in fact nothing new. This technology increases bandwidth so it is able to send and receive interactive multimedia data. Budi Rahardjo, Ph.D., a lecturer at the Bandung Institute of Technology, has in fact pointed out that broadband first appeared in the 1970s. "Only at that time, the Internet hadn't yet become popular and there were limited users," he explained.

Now broadband is available on the Internet either via a satellite transpon