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AOL fights MPs over rural broadband
News Internet service provider AOL clashed with an influential committee of MPs on Thursday morning, rejecting suggestions that telecommunications firms have a social obligation to provide broadband connections to rural areas when it isn't yet...
[June 13, 2002, 16:41]
The future is broadband, says Microsoft
News Because that strategy requires people to have more bandwidth than is reachable via simple dial-up modem connections to the Internet, the company has also turned into one of the biggest boosters of the high-speed Net, with a history of broadband...
[July 25, 2001, 9:36]
Government hopes ex-gas regulator can kick-start Broadband Britain
News According to The Sunday Times, Spottiswoode has already spoken to the Prime Minister's officials about broadband, amid concerns that Britain is falling behind other nations in the availability and take-up of affordable high-speed Internet...
[December 3, 2001, 11:32]
Singapore Airlines takes Wi-Fi in-flight
News Under the agreement, 40 of Singapore Airlines' planes will be equipped with Wi-Fi connections to a high-speed satellite service. The hot spot connections will allow passengers to surf the Web, send and receive email, and view broadcast TV channels...
[November 12, 2003, 12:30]
Rural Europe may get €1bn for broadband
News The broadband investment proposal accompanies another proposal for a €4bn (£3.7bn) investment in energy infrastructure, ranging from gas and electricity connections to wind-power projects. The European Economic Recovery Plan set out a goal of...
[January 29, 2009, 15:23]
Government backs industry broadband strategy
News Broadband local area networks, typically using a strain of the 802.11 standard, are a way of cheaply sharing high speed connections, but carving up spectrum usage can be problematic. E-minister Timms pointed out that over 32,000 people and...
[March 21, 2003, 9:34]
Broadband joins the Mile-High Club
News Several other companies are also taking an interest in providing aeroplanes with broadband connections, including satellite operator Inmarsat which said back in April 2002 that its Swift64 service would give aeroplane passengers connection speeds...
[January 14, 2003, 16:38]
Australian broadband adoption accelerates
News The number of broadband connections in Australia passed the 500,000 milestone at the end of June, according to new statistics released by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Broadband connections grew at a rate of 22 percent across...
[October 8, 2003, 10:30]
Broadband prices to halve by 1 April
News ADSL (asynchronous digital subscriber line) turns standard phone lines into high-speed digital connections. See the Broadband News Section for the latest on cable modems, ADSL, satellite and other high-speed access technologies, including a...
[February 26, 2002, 8:49]
Broadband for all - government pledges
News Speaking at the launch of the report, entitled UK online: the broadband future, e-minister Patricia Hewitt acknowledged the importance of broadband to both consumers and businesses: "Consumers with broadband stay on the Internet up to four times...
[February 13, 2001, 16:19]
Yahoo! to launch paid Net video service
News The company is trying to catch the growing number of Internet users migrating onto high-speed broadband connections by offering them paid services. s "bring your own access" service, a bundle of broadband-centric features that people with high...
[February 10, 2003, 8:38]
Bright sparks offer broadband over power lines
News Unlike ADSL and cable broadband, Southern Electric's product is symmetrical, with customers being promised connections of up to 1Mbps both upstream and downstream. The electricity provider is letting its customers take part in commercial testing of...
[August 21, 2003, 13:19]
Constricted Internet Connections
Blog The concept could be applied to broadband, other wireless and wired network connections. For any given connection speed to an ISP there will be an constriction of data that can vary due to: where the data is sourced; the connection management...
[June 29, 2009, 11:32]
Telewest hits broadband milestone
News ADSL connections have recently hit half a million, but this makes our achievements all the more impressive when you consider that figure [BT's] represents the combined efforts of over 100 companies and includes both business and residential...
[December 6, 2002, 11:26]
Pipex cuts cost of getting broadband
News Broadband take-up in the UK is very buoyant at present, running at over 30,000 new connections per week. The company announced on Monday that new customers for its Xtreme Solo2 Go broadband service can join the high-speed Internet revolution for a...
[July 7, 2003, 17:08]
Broadband fixed wireless auction flops
News If this trial is successful, it is very possible that BT will use it as a way of providing broadband connections to rural areas. For areas too remote or under-populated to be offered ADSL, broadband fixed wireless is thought to be the most...
[January 11, 2002, 17:25]
Fibre access essential says industry group
News The local loop is predominantly copper-based, and BT currently has no plans to upgrade the copper to high-speed fibre because it says regulation would force it to open those connections up to rival providers, thus making it not worth the expense.
[April 16, 2007, 13:18]
Hackers gain free access to MSN Premium
News But it has recently lost dial-up customers to high-speed access rivals, leading it to focus its efforts on broadband customers who get their connections from third parties such as Verizon. The flaw comes to light as MSN seeks to shift its...
[February 27, 2004, 7:55]
South West England to power up business broadband
News The connections,which will go up to 10Gbps, will be run over Ethernet technology, not the DSL which mass broadband roll-out to domestic users depends on. Ethernet provides our customers with the high bandwidth they need with a new baseline of 10...
[October 31, 2002, 9:40]
Exclusive: BTopenworld 'unuseable'
News Openworld says it is connecting several thousand ADSL users a week, while the other ISPs say Ignite has only allocated them about 100 connections a week. BTopenworld's high-speed Internet service has been virtually unuseable for the last week...
[February 13, 2001, 16:14]
