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'upto' 20Mbps v 'upto' 8Mbps
Talkback Regarding the upto 20Mbps ‘hype’- I believe its possible that you could receive an overall better/faster broadband connection from an ‘upto’ 8Mbps ISP, than an ‘upto’ 20Mbps as its far more dependant on how each ISP manage their network.
[June 10, 2009, 22:18]
BT ready to roll with 8Mbps ADSL
News BT had set a launch date of November for the trials of its 8Mbps ADSL broadband Max service, with a full roll-out expected in spring 2006. The launch of this faster broadband is key for BT as it recovers from the failure of SDSL to capture a large...
[October 13, 2005, 18:25]
Bulldog launches pay-as-you-go 8Mbps broadband
News Bulldog has taken inspiration from the dark days of dial-up with its latest broadband offering - pay-as-you-go broadband. The package will give consumers 8Mbps access for 3p per minute with no line rental.
[November 16, 2005, 15:10]
Broadband to be metered in 8Mbps future
News UK's broadband providers are on the brink of moving away from billing customers on the basis of connection speeds to a model built around the amount of data downloaded. The move is likely to reinforce the existing broadband divide, as consumers and...
[February 18, 2005, 16:15]
Wanadoo rebuked over 8Mbps broadband claims
News The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has upheld a complaint against UK ISP Wanadoo over its promotions for its 8Mbps broadband service. In an adjudication published on Wednesday, the ASA ruled that Wanadoo had misled customers by not making it...
[February 8, 2006, 17:05]
BT ready to roll with 8Mbps ADSL
Talkback I am right on the 1mbps borderline so I don't expect to see 8mbps at any time in the distant future.
[October 14, 2005, 13:27]
BT's 8Mbps broadband out now?
News A UK company claims to have launched an 8Mbps broadband service based on BT's IPStream Max, two months before BT plans to launch this service itself. Details of Freedom2surf's new 8Mbps service were released on Thursday on the company's Web site...
[January 20, 2006, 16:40]
UK Online rolls out 8Mbps broadband service
News Internet users in many urban areas around the UK may soon be able to get a broadband connection of eight megabits per second -- four times faster than the quickest consumer service being trialled by BT.
[November 17, 2004, 15:30]
BT pushes broadband up to 8Mbps
News BT will be able to supply millions of UK homes and businesses with broadband at speeds up to 8Mbps from the end of this month. The telco announced on Thursday that faster broadband services will be available from 31 March.
[March 2, 2006, 15:20]
BT Retail launches 8Mbps broadband
News BT has launched a high-speed ADSL consumer broadband service capable of download speeds of up to 8Mbps. Maximum upload speeds will increase from 256Kbps to 448Kbps. The faster broadband service is based on ADSL Max, which uses existing DSL...
[April 5, 2006, 16:45]
BT ready to roll with 8Mbps ADSL
Talkback 8Mbps from BT? I'm still waiting for them to do something to the rural lines so we can get better than 512kbps! I note that many of the 'trials' have been in urban areas plus Cornwall and Glamorgan. It is the areas where subscribers are more remote...
[October 14, 2005, 11:48]
BT pushes broadband up to 8Mbps
Talkback Some are lucky! BT are not able to make my 'local loop' run at better than 512kbps downlink, 256 kbps uplink, and even that is unreliable. I would love to get better, but BT just don't want to know if the problem is only evident on the ADSL service.
[March 6, 2006, 12:46]
Broadband to be metered in 8Mbps future
Talkback Mr Wearden, Thank you for the recent article on PlusNet and it's move into 8Mbs broadband. Having read the article, as a member of the PlusNet Usergroup, I would like to bring to your attention a number of factual errors I have noticed which you...
[February 19, 2005, 0:04]
Broadband to be metered in 8Mbps future
Talkback Peter, Many thanks for your comment. I had indeed misread that part of PlusNet's announcement. The article's now been corrected. We've also tweaked the intro to avoid the gigabyte/megabyte issue. Cheers,
[February 21, 2005, 10:37]
BT ready to roll with 8Mbps ADSL
Talkback South Glam contains some of the more populated parts of Wales and any sheep usally gets killed when walking across the M4. About time Wales was one of the first (not counting rugby of course).
[October 17, 2005, 14:03]
UK Online rolls out 8Mbps broadband service
Talkback Beware signing up for this with ukonline. The small print means that if after signing up they are unable to offer 8MB you can end up with anything down to 2MB, and you will be tied in for 12 months!
[February 22, 2005, 18:41]
Bulldog launches pay-as-you-go 8Mbps broadband
Talkback I remember when screaming.net came out, it was my first switch from the mighty BT -- because they were charging 1p a minute. But my first bill came in at £200, so did my friends. My first bill, it was acceptable, but to multiply that by a factor of...
[November 16, 2005, 18:20]
BT ready to roll with 8Mbps ADSL
Talkback Aberdeen is nothing comparred to Dundee; here we've got Jam, Jute and Journalism. Not just that but Desperate Dan too. Plus you know what they say about people from Aberdeen, they're all pure.
[October 20, 2005, 21:51]
Bulldog launches pay-as-you-go 8Mbps broadband
Talkback Its high time when Bulldog needs to radically change their customer services delivery to be in business. They need to have their house in order before coming with various products in the market place
[November 23, 2005, 13:35]
Broadband to be metered in 8Mbps future
Talkback Also the article did not mention the fair usage policy, which will let people go over there limit periodically if there is a need for it.
[February 21, 2005, 10:11]
