fraudband
n.— «Broadband offers three advantages over vanilla modem connections.…But for the overwhelming majority, it doesn’t allow them to do much they could not do before. Perhaps fraudband would be a better term.» —“Second sight—broadband access” by Azeem Azhar Guardian (United Kingdom) June 14, 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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