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June, now 63, said her home office at the time had a dial-up modem, trading software downloaded from a compact disc and a dodgy internet connection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

With Qualcomm specifically, investors have also worried that the company was losing business with modem customers Apple and Samsung Electronics.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026

The iPhone 17e features a cellular modem made by Apple, the C1X, which the company says is twice as fast as the C1 modem in the iPhone 16e.

From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026

Also, it’s easy to forget that your Wi-Fi router is plugged into a modem, usually in some far corner of the house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

And then the two basic ideals of modem man—without them he is unthinkable—the idea of free personality and the idea of life as sacrifice.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

But Apple has been weaning itself off Qualcomm, replacing it with its homegrown modems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Investors have known about Qualcomm’s most pressing challenge for years: Apple, its top customer, is phasing Qualcomm modems out of iPhones by next fall.

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

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

The dial-up modems screamed at anyone who wanted to surf the net, but surfing was more like sitting in the water with some floaties and a pool noodle compared to today’s internet.

From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2023

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