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SOP. Also translations in other languages: Portuguese internet a cabo, Romanian internet prin cablu. I'm not sure about Dutch kabelinternet as it's written without spaces. Benwing2 (talk) 20:59, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
- Doesn't strike me as SOP: Fiber internet which is transmitted using fiber-optic cables does not fall under the umbrella of cable internet even though a SOP interpretation says so. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 21:08, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
- Really? Cable Internet is just Internet transmitted over cables; why would it matter if they're fiber-optic or coaxial? Benwing2 (talk) 00:32, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
- I agree that it doesn't make sense and that it's a ridiculous and annoying misnomer but it do be like that sometimes: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 03:31, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
- I think it's understood as being short for cable (television) Internet because it is delivered by television providers. At least in the USA. So keep, as not being sum-of-parts after all. —Soap— 17:54, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- I agree that it doesn't make sense and that it's a ridiculous and annoying misnomer but it do be like that sometimes: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 03:31, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
- Really? Cable Internet is just Internet transmitted over cables; why would it matter if they're fiber-optic or coaxial? Benwing2 (talk) 00:32, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
- To me, the fibre issue mention above seems like mostly a red herring, since that distinction already resides in cable alone — if you have Google Fiber, but not cable TV, then you don't "have cable"/"get cable", even though a literal interpretation of cable would say you do. I think the current definition makes it sound like it's the coaxialness of the cable that is definitional, when it's really just the cable-ness of the cable that's definitional (to be cable internet, it has to be the same cable that you'd use if you were using the word cable by itself to say you "get cable" or to say you have "cable TV"). But I'm still on the fence about whether it's the kind of set phrase we should nonetheless have. Abstain. - -sche (discuss) 19:02, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
- RFD-kept as no consensus to delete. ·~ dictátor·mundꟾ 12:30, 4 October 2023 (UTC)