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ADSL only suitable for BT, says research firm
News Only BT will be able to afford to roll out ADSL even after the local loop is unbundled, according to a study from research firm Ovum. Ovum's research compared the four main broadband technologies -- DSL, fixed wireless, cable and fibre -- and...
[September 27, 2000, 14:18]
ADSL - The technology behind the speed
News For anyone who can remember the early days of online, ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) seems little short of a miracle. In the early 80s, the fastest modems available were 1200bps -- almost two thousand times slower than BT's top ADSL...
[July 29, 1999, 8:38]
ADSL will not end bandwidth problems
News ADSL promises to herald an age of always-on, media-rich Internet access, but one ISP admits Thursday its customers can expect no more than three hours download time and may find themselves thrown off the service if they hog bandwidth.
[October 19, 2000, 13:59]
ADSL crisis - this is war
News According to Gibbs, Ignite -- the division of BT which supplies BTopenworld and other ISPs with ADSL -- has suspended the previous allocation system because it failed to respond to the dynamic demand for ADSL services.
[February 8, 2001, 15:08]
ADSL wrestles broadband top spot from cable
Talkback BT) put the prices down for ADSL now? Surely ISPs (i.e. I heard that around £15.99 would be the ideal price at this stage in the game. That is the only way we will be able to get the whole country up to speed (pun intended) with the "broadband...
[August 21, 2003, 16:50]
ADSL waiting list drops to 1,000
News BT Ignite claimed on Wednesday that there is no longer any significant waiting list for ADSL installations. This will come as welcome news to consumers, some of whom have waited up to six months to have their ADSL connection installed.
[April 26, 2001, 7:03]
ADSL/DTM Network Architecture
White Papers The paper is written in a step-by-step fashion describing how a greenfield operator could take advantage of the current "unbundling" of copper to build up a successfull ADSL network operation. This paper suggests an architecture for aggregating...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
ADSL Around the Home
White Papers Even if you only have one computer, and it is near your 'master' socket, you will need to consider ADSL filtering. This is because the ADSL signal shares the same pair of wires from the exchange with your telephone.
[February 14, 2005, 2:00]
ADSL for £20 a month
News As BT's roll out of ADSL continues to be slated, one firm is rolling out a fast Internet service for £20 a month. It uses BT's ADSL technology but the videostream version rather than the IP version other ISPs are using.
[September 29, 2000, 12:14]
ADSL rollout hits major milestone
News The Howden exchange was ADSL-enabled after 200 local people registered their interest in getting broadband, following active campaigning that was supported by shadow home secretary and local MP David Davis.
[December 2, 2003, 14:55]
ADSL pricing: industry reacts
News Industry reaction to BT's ADSL pricing announcement Thursday has been a mixed bag -- ISPs appear underwhelmed while observers expressed relief, having thought the service would be more expensive. ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) has been...
[December 3, 1999, 8:54]
ADSL on the way from Easynet
News Easynet, which provides Internet access for businesses, has announced that will begin to offer ADSL service to a limited number of business customers in London in the next few months, with nationwide services beginning next year.
[September 22, 1999, 14:48]
ADSL - safe at any speed?
News Although ADSL promises a revolution in Internet access, it has its dark side. Triallists on the BT ADSL system have reported frequent and sometimes intensive attacks on their home systems -- packets designed to crash their PCs, to activate trojan...
[July 30, 1999, 8:18]
News Burst: ADSL on the way from Easynet
News Easynet, which provides Internet access services to business customers, has announced that will begin to offer ADSL services to a limited number of business customers in London in the next few months, with nationwide services beginning next year.
[September 22, 1999, 9:31]
ADSL prices stop falling
News The days of generous broadband price cuts are over, for the moment at least, according to an analysis published this week.was a year of slashed entry-level prices for ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) broadband service providers around the...
[February 5, 2004, 12:30]
ADSL wrestles broadband top spot from cable
News ADSL has overtaken cable as the most widely used broadband technology in the UK, according to new figures -- which show that Britain's broadband boom is alive and well. ADSL users make up 1.18 million of this total, followed by cable broadband...
[August 20, 2003, 14:00]
ADSL routs cable in broadband take-up battle
Talkback Great news I get ADSL from BT next month-if I want it. But ADSL means I now have to rent BT voice lines which with the rental costs puts voice costs way up. But I am not too sure. Problem! I have used ISDN for over 3 years and made use of the MSN...
[March 16, 2004, 9:09]
News Burst: ADSL will not be cost-effective, says analyst
News As controversy mounts over unbundling the local loop and the rollout of ADSL, one analyst group claims the technology will be too costly for operators other than BT. Ovum analyst Yum Petkovic disputes this, claiming ADSL will only be viable for BT.
[September 27, 2000, 10:29]
ADSL and the opportunistic hackers
News British security experts predict a sharp rise in the number of computer attacks on individual Internet users with the introduction of always-on ADSL Internet access. Similar tales of security alarms with ADSL emerge from the US and one recent study...
[May 8, 2000, 16:32]
Exclusive: BT reveals ADSL prices
News BT exclusively reveals ADSL prices to ZDNet News Thursday. BT is not planning to sell ADSL direct to consumers but will offer the services wholesale to ISPs. The telco plans to equip 400 exchanges across the UK during the spring of next year with...
[December 2, 1999, 11:06]
