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Government confirms one million broadband connections
News See the Broadband News Section for the latest on cable modems, ADSL, satellite and other high-speed access technologies, including a comprehensive guide to the best deals out there. The UK government announced on Tuesday that one million...
[October 8, 2002, 10:03]
Appleton Coated Provides Remote Sales Force High Speed Internet Connectivity Along With Secure Transfer of Confidential Company Data Using D-Link Broadband VPN Routers
White Papers The company promptly implemented a plan for replacing each of the outside sales representative's VPN connections with D-Link DI-804HV Broadband VPN Routers. Others were using cable and still others in remote locations were using dial-up connections.
[April 3, 2009, 1:22]
Telewest vows to keep beating BT for broadband speed
News Telewest said on Wednesday that broadband connections as fast as 5Mbps or 6Mbps could be available to its customers within a few years, as it strives to offer faster services than BT. Chad Raube, director of internet services at Telewest Broadband...
[May 19, 2004, 17:35]
Virgin hikes broadband speed for customers
News Virgin described this as "a significant speed advantage" over regular 8Mbps ADSL connections and said the free upgrade will roll out by region from late next month and be completed by late summer. Virgin Media has announced a free speed upgrade to...
[January 29, 2008, 7:23]
Streaming tech doubles broadband speed
News The company plans to make its technology public on Wednesday, when it hopes to prove that it can guarantee streaming throughput at rates that exceed 1mbps -- up to twice the speeds normally achieved on most high-speed connections.
[April 10, 2002, 16:07]
BT video trials to fuel broadband speed race
News A spokesman explained that BT had calculated that a successful video-on-demand service would need 2Mbps connections. BT began trials of a digital set-top box this week that would allow users to download TV programmes over broadband.
[September 20, 2004, 15:25]
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]
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]
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 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]
Analyst: Mobile broadband booming in Europe
News Almost 12 percent of all broadband connections in Europe are carried over HSPA mobile networks, according to the analyst firm Berg Insight. At the end of 2008, Berg Insight said there were 14.6 million HSPA subscriptions in Europe, representing...
[May 28, 2009, 16:19]
Public sector workers 'should get subsidised broadband'
News Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers would be given cut-price high-speed Internet connections at home as part of a series of radical proposals published on Tuesday by Centre for Reform, a UK think tank.
[June 24, 2003, 12:31]
Cable companies to put weight behind broadband
News On Monday the two companies will unveil a marketing campaign called Building Broadband Britain to drive more consumers to sign up for always-on, high-speed connections to the Net. On Monday the French government unveiled a plan to make broadband...
[July 9, 2001, 12:27]
Be Broadband plays catch-up with Virgin
Blog Be is doing this by bonding two broadband connections together - not the newest ploy, but one that has never seen widespread take-up because, well, it means paying for two connections. Following yesterday's launch of Virgin Media's '50Mbps' service...
[December 16, 2008, 14:02]
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. See the Broadband News Section for the latest on cable...
[June 9, 2003, 12:11]
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]
Norfolk community broadband suffers from BT delays
News BT has admitted that the West Norfolk Community Broadband (WNCB) project has not received these high-speed backhaul connections, which were due to be installed in December last year. This is the second time in a month that a community broadband...
[January 5, 2004, 12:35]
Brits Are Broadband Speed Junkies
Blog Customers on faster broadband connections awarded their providers higher customer satisfaction ratings than did those with slower speeds, suggesting a nation of speed-hungry broadband users. According to the data collected, the average speed of UK...
[April 28, 2008, 12:03]
UK bottom of broadband league table
News Out of 11 countries ranked by Internet measurement firm NetValue, the UK came tenth, ahead only of China in the number of broadband connections via ADSL, cable or satellite in people's homes. One of every nine US Internet connections is broadband.
[April 3, 2001, 6:18]
Broadband Britain booming
News Britain is also now officially a broadband nation, Ofcom has discovered, with more Internet connections being made over broadband than dial-up. The watchdog puts the number of high-speed connections in the UK at around 8.1 million in June.
[July 14, 2005, 9:40]
