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Broadband Connections Rocket
News The number of broadband connections in the UK shot up by a third during 2006. According to analysts at Point Topic, in the fourth quarter of 2006 the number of broadband connections in the country was 13.1 million—up from 9.8 million in the same...
[March 29, 2007, 16:02]
Broadband Connections Leave Dial-up Trailing
News The number of permanent connections -- or always-on links provided by DSL or cable modems -- reached 29.5 percent of the total Internet connections in June 2004, compared to 27.8 percent in May and 16.1 percent a year ago, according to the Office...
[August 18, 2004, 16:55]
BT Denies Suspending Broadband Connections
News BT has not had to suspend broadband connections," a BT spokesman said. BT has already found a way of fixing broken connections, but is still working with Fujitsu to find a permanent solution. A problem with equipment supplied by Fujitsu has been...
[April 23, 2002, 17:53]
Government Confirms One Million Broadband Connections
News The UK government announced on Tuesday that one million businesses and consumers have now signed up for broadband, and insisted it is still on target to make Britain the world's most extensive and competitive broadband market.
[October 8, 2002, 10:03]
Maximizing Broadband Performance With CacheFlow Internet Caching Appliances
White Papers Broadband connections to the Internet, such as DSL and Cable, have been hailed as the solution to the “World Wide Wait. Therefore, faster connections to a broadband service provider’s network do not necessarily result in faster response times when...
[August 16, 2003, 0:00]
Broadband Growth Sees Incumbent Telcos Under Fire
News A report by research group Forrester found that the growth in broadband connections in Western European homes has steamed ahead, growing by 81 percent in 2003 and by 28 percent last year. Currently, according to the report, the incumbents have...
[January 21, 2005, 15:05]
BT To Sell Broadband-multiplying Software To ISPs
News BT Wholesale is to distribute a software suite that could improve the performance of broadband connections through the use of multiple lines. In its statement on the BT deal, Sharedband also claimed that the use of its suite would add a layer of...
[December 6, 2007, 0:00]
What Has Broadband Done For Us?
News While downloading music and video is a must for consumers, the 65 percent of businesses currently using broadband connections have different priorities. It might not have arrived in time to ride the wave of the Internet boom, but the spread of high...
[March 31, 2004, 12:15]
Broadband Still Growing Apace
News Britain's broadband connections are continuing apace - with the rate of fat-pipe conversions outstripping the rate of new connections to the Internet as a whole. According to figures from the Office of National Statistics, January 2005 saw a two...
[March 17, 2005, 15:55]
Mobile Broadband Popularity Rockets
News Europe will have five million mobile broadband connections by the end of this year, a Swedish analyst firm has predicted. Overall, the firm predicts, the continent's mobile broadband connections will have shot up to 30 million by 2011.
[July 4, 2007, 11:01]
Support Grows For Rural DSL Alternative
News Gear makers have joined a nonprofit group looking to promote wireless access to high-speed broadband connections. Component and equipment makers including Intel, Nokia and Fujitsu, announced on Tuesday that they will be working with WiMAX to help...
[April 9, 2003, 9:17]
UK Broadband Boom Continues
News The take-up of broadband home Internet connections is showing continued growth month-on-month as more users make the switch to ditch their dial-up. The latest Office of National Statistics figures are for October and show that broadband penetration...
[December 21, 2005, 15:15]
UK Trails Europe In Broadband Uptake
News The number of households with broadband Internet connections in the UK is lower than any other country in Europe, according to the latest research from Nielsen//NetRatings. The Nielsen//NetRatings figures are in line with research released last...
[September 9, 2002, 11:38]
UK's Broadband Boom Rockets
News BT Wholesale, whose ADSL products are resold by around 200 Internet service providers, is currently adding more new broadband connections than either NTL or Telewest individually. NTL is understood to have gained 70,000 broadband customers in the...
[November 15, 2002, 12:06]
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]
Facing The Security Risks Of Cable Modems
News Many organisations are opting to install cable modem connections; according to the March 2002 issue of Cable Datacom News, more than 10 percent of the U.S.online community is connected via broadband. According to some precise definitions, cable...
[July 8, 2002, 16:10]
EU Sees Surge In Broadband Usage
News More than a quarter of a billion Europeans regularly use the internet, with around 80 percent of those people hooked up to broadband connections. According to the Commission there are now around 100 million broadband internet connections across the...
[April 21, 2008, 8:23]
UK Moving Up Broadband Rankings
News Now four percent of UK households have broadband connections -- whether via ADSL or cable or the less popular access technologies of wireless and satellite -- but 10 percent of urban households will be connected by the start of 2004.
[December 11, 2002, 14:12]
BT Hits The Broadband Million
News In February last year I set the challenging target of one million DSL broadband connections by summer 2003. BT has achieved its target of reaching one million ADSL connections by this summer. To celebrate the feat, the telco is making significant...
[June 9, 2003, 12:11]
Broadband Britain Booms With Two Million Home Users
News Oftel research shows that many broadband connections are people upgrading from narrowband, as they recognise the benefits of fast, always on Internet access," said David Edmonds, Oftel's Director General of Telecommunications, in a statement.
[May 22, 2003, 9:43]
