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Dial-up Fades Away As Broadband Pulls Ahead
News Telecoms regulator Ofcom published figures on Wednesday showing that broadband take-up has continued its steady increase in both businesses and homes, while dial-up is in decline. Similarly, the percentage of home users subscribing to broadband has...
[June 3, 2004, 15:45]
UK Dial-up Use 'down But Not Out'
News Broadband services have begun to eat away at the traditional dial-up market in most Western European countries, but dial-up services will be a significant market for some time to come -- and are continuing to grow in some countries -- according to...
[January 16, 2004, 13:55]
Broadband Britain To Overtake Dial-up
News Latest figures from the Office of National Statistics show that broadband is poised to overtake dial-up as the most popular way of accessing the Internet in the UK. The ONS reported on Monday that, in April 2005, 49.2 percent of UK Web users were...
[June 20, 2005, 13:55]
Virgin Net Unveils Dial-up Service
News Virgin Net offers a nationwide dial-up service for £10 a month and includes a limited amount of content as well as a range of utilities. Richard Branson's long awaited Internet service was launched today.
[November 19, 1996, 20:31]
Hacking Goldmine As BT Publishes Remote Dial-up Numbers
News These tariffs do not apply to national and local ISP dial-up numbers, and BT has said that the purpose of its list was to make its BT Together customers aware of numbers that they would have to pay extra to call.
[March 25, 2002, 18:00]
Broadband Booms As Dial-up Declines
News Official figures released this week illustrate the massive boom in broadband take-up that took place in 2002, and also show that dial-up use is slowly declining. Over the same period, dial-up connections -- covering both pay-as-you-go and unmetered...
[January 22, 2003, 11:44]
Microsoft Concedes Dial-up Patch Problem
News Users need to do more about security prevention, but Microsoft admits that getting the latest update patch from the Web is not always easy for consumers connecting via dial-up links. This is particularly a problem for the 67 percent of the UK...
[June 14, 2004, 9:25]
Dial-up Dissatisfaction Will Keep Broadband Booming
News Although little has changed in the substance and quality of narrowband service, dial-up subscribers are increasingly judging the quality of their connection based on the perception of what broadband has to offer," Greeson added.
[August 13, 2003, 18:05]
Dial-up Fades Away As Broadband Pulls Ahead
Talkback My PC is beginning to look like a pair of hobo jeans picked up at a local thrift store.covered in patches and running out of space. What if I'm tired of giving up more and more hard disk space to Microsoft for endless ENDLESS security updates and...
[June 13, 2004, 21:08]
Dial-up Dissatisfaction Will Keep Broadband Booming
Talkback It's about time Australia got it's act together with Broadband. With high prices, bandwidth caps, and charges of $140 per Gigabyte if you go over the cap, the country will lag (no pun intended) behind the rest of the world in Broadband growth.
[August 14, 2003, 8:05]
Dial-up Fades Away As Broadband Pulls Ahead
Talkback "Anyone selling broadband access, at a minimum, should be pointing to firewalls, antivirus software and the latest Microsoft software patches," said Cluley. I don't use Windows. Why would I want a Microsoft security patch?
[June 3, 2004, 18:04]
Broadband Connections Leave Dial-up Trailing
News Dial-up, meanwhile, becomes ever less popular, with the number of connections falling 10.3 percent since last year. There are now fewer dial-up subscriptions than when the ONS began to collect Internet data in January 2001.
[August 18, 2004, 16:55]
Microsoft Concedes Dial-up Patch Problem
Talkback quote":Why doesn't MS do this with security updates, service packs and patches? their answer: costs to deliver and if we keep it online we can circulate patches faster.my counter offer: a$$clowns.by keeping it online you can keep tabs on us.
[June 17, 2004, 9:17]
Broadband Britain To Overtake Dial-up
Talkback Internet use (data) overtakes voice as traffic on UK landlines mobile overtakes landline for voice broadband overtakes dial-up for Internet access IP, disruptive times.the timeline of UK communications (from memory):
[June 25, 2005, 17:57]
Microsoft Concedes Dial-up Patch Problem
Talkback Hey, maybe they could even make this CD avilable for the mags to include on their cover or add to the DVD issue - saves MS money on postage and bandwidth, while more people get up to date and there's less zombie PCs spamming and attacking everyone...
[June 15, 2004, 18:30]
Broadband Britain To Overtake Dial-up
Talkback This means that many web pages can only be accesed via braodband - dial up or GSM/GPRS just aren't enough. One worrrying trend was highlighted in your article - increasing use of high-bandwidth graphics and animations for no good reason.
[June 21, 2005, 11:01]
PlusNet Targets Dial-up Users With Slower ADSL
News DSL Connect is a 150 Kilobit per second (Kbps) ADSL service that provides always-on Web access at up to three times the speed of a dial-up connection, for a similar price. We believe that DSL Connect will meet what we see as a huge demand for...
[December 12, 2003, 13:50]
Microsoft Concedes Dial-up Patch Problem
Talkback Too late. Already loving BSD, Linux and OS X. Windows blows.
[June 14, 2004, 14:52]
Microsoft Concedes Dial-up Patch Problem
Talkback Remember when MS used to distribute its latest IE browser on a CD enclosed with your favorite computer magazine? Why doesn't MS do this with security updates, service packs and patches?
[June 14, 2004, 18:03]
UK Dial-up Use 'down But Not Out'
Talkback Dialup services in the Uk will not be out for one simple reason - the failure of the cable and telcos to invest in the required connectivity. There are large areas of Britain, including urban zones where no cable servies, including broadband, are...
[January 17, 2004, 0:18]
