modems
- plural of modem.
Example Sentences
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The chip company produces modem systems for iPhones, but Apple is now producing its own modems, with more advanced systems potentially on the way.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
Later, I worked on modems at Bell Labs, funded by a government-mandated monopoly’s profits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025
The actual road that led Redick to the Lakers has been lined with coaxial cables, modems and Wi-Fi signals, and is painfully and, at times, beautifully structureless.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2024
That, plus subsequent cases, eventually would help popularize the internet — jacking early modems into the telephone system — and the legal breakup of the AT&T/Bell monopoly.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024
Meanwhile, downloading software and MP3s was sometimes agonizingly slow; even worse, they’d gotten their butts kicked when they went online to play Quake or Half-Life against geeks who did have cable modems.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
