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Dial-up fades away as broadband pulls ahead
News Telecoms regulator Ofcom published figures on Wednesday showing that broadband take-up has continued its steady increase in both businesses and homes, while dial-up is in decline. Similarly, the percentage of home users subscribing to broadband has...
[June 3, 2004, 15:45]
Virgin Net unveils dial-up service
News Virgin Net offers a nationwide dial-up service for £10 a month and includes a limited amount of content as well as a range of utilities. Richard Branson's long awaited Internet service was launched today.
[November 19, 1996, 20:31]
Hacking goldmine as BT publishes remote dial-up numbers
News These tariffs do not apply to national and local ISP dial-up numbers, and BT has said that the purpose of its list was to make its BT Together customers aware of numbers that they would have to pay extra to call.
[March 25, 2002, 18:00]
UK dial-up use 'down but not out'
News Broadband services have begun to eat away at the traditional dial-up market in most Western European countries, but dial-up services will be a significant market for some time to come -- and are continuing to grow in some countries -- according to...
[January 16, 2004, 13:55]
Broadband Britain to overtake dial-up
News Latest figures from the Office of National Statistics show that broadband is poised to overtake dial-up as the most popular way of accessing the Internet in the UK. The ONS reported on Monday that, in April 2005, 49.2 percent of UK Web users were...
[June 20, 2005, 13:55]
Broadband booms as dial-up declines
News Official figures released this week illustrate the massive boom in broadband take-up that took place in 2002, and also show that dial-up use is slowly declining. Over the same period, dial-up connections -- covering both pay-as-you-go and unmetered...
[January 22, 2003, 11:44]
Microsoft concedes dial-up patch problem
News Users need to do more about security prevention, but Microsoft admits that getting the latest update patch from the Web is not always easy for consumers connecting via dial-up links. This is particularly a problem for the 67 percent of the UK...
[June 14, 2004, 9:25]
Dial-up dissatisfaction will keep broadband booming
News Although little has changed in the substance and quality of narrowband service, dial-up subscribers are increasingly judging the quality of their connection based on the perception of what broadband has to offer," Greeson added.
[August 13, 2003, 18:05]
Broadband connections leave dial-up trailing
News Dial-up, meanwhile, becomes ever less popular, with the number of connections falling 10.3 percent since last year. There are now fewer dial-up subscriptions than when the ONS began to collect Internet data in January 2001.
[August 18, 2004, 16:55]
PlusNet targets dial-up users with slower ADSL
News DSL Connect is a 150 Kilobit per second (Kbps) ADSL service that provides always-on Web access at up to three times the speed of a dial-up connection, for a similar price. We believe that DSL Connect will meet what we see as a huge demand for...
[December 12, 2003, 13:50]
Ring tones dial up the cash
News Ring tones brought in $71m for record companies in 2002, up 58 percent on the previous year, according to the latest report from Baskerville, entitled 'Mobile Music'. Mobile ring tones have become big business for the music publishers and mobile...
[January 15, 2003, 14:18]
Ringtones dial up higher revenues
News Worldwide revenue from mobile data services is expected to jump from an estimated $61bn (£33.4bn) this year to $189bn in 2009, according to a new report. Forty-eight percent of the revenue in 2009 will come from personal communication services such...
[August 20, 2004, 11:25]
European mobiles dial up ringback tones
News This is a further phase in mobile phone personalisation and one that analyst house Ovum today said will be worth $721m (£401m) in Western Europe in 2008, up from around $16m this year. The growth of ringback tones in Europe is set to mean hundreds...
[August 26, 2004, 10:35]
Phone giants dial up Wi-Fi mobile
News Japan's NTT Communications, Britain's BT Group and four other major phone companies have teamed up to find better ways to link wired and wireless telephone networks. The companies have formed the Fixed-Mobile Convergence Alliance in order to speed...
[July 15, 2004, 10:35]
Telewest broadband trial undercuts dial-up
News The cable company announced on Tuesday that it was launching a "broadband taster" in an attempt to get more people to sign up for a high-speed Internet connection. VAT) per month, plus an installation fee of up to £50.
[April 30, 2002, 12:48]
Microsoft to distribute XP SP2 on one million CDs
News Microsoft will encourage dial-up users to update their Windows XP systems with Service Pack 2 by distributing the update on one million CDs in the UK. According to Randle, Microsoft's primary distribution channel will be over the Internet, but the...
[July 9, 2004, 17:15]
Regulator clamps down on rogue dialler cash
News ICSTIS, the body that regulates premium-rate phone services in the UK, is clamping down on criminals targeting dial-up Internet users. Complaints about rogue diallers soared just over a year ago, with dial-up users facing unexpected phone charges...
[August 5, 2005, 15:25]
MSN search beta builds momentum
News Microsoft's MSN is slowly turning up the dial on its Web search beta, sending more and more visitors home-baked results over results from partner Yahoo. We intend to begin turning up the dial and direct more of our users to the beta," MSN Search...
[January 17, 2005, 12:15]
BT offers protection against rogue diallers
News BT is giving protection against fraudsters who hijack dial-up Internet connections and redirect them to premium rate telephone numbers. This should stop dialler software, which can be secretly installed on a PC and used to connect to the Web via...
[March 15, 2005, 16:00]
AOL goes broadband with new software
News America Online on Monday is set to unveil its latest plan to keep some 34 million dial-up account members within the fold as they begin to shop for high-speed Internet access. AOL's slow growth in the broadband market has been matched by a recent...
[March 31, 2003, 7:59]
