Telecommunications is often used as a very generic word to cover telephone or cellular.... Broadband refers to your ability to get the Internet either on your smart phone or on your laptop or on your computer, with a range of video or multi-tasking, a certain capacity and robustness. So if you've rolled out a cellular network, you can't simply use that for Internet access without some changes by the carriers.
On March 25th, 2010. See this statement in context.