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What the Narrowband Revolution means to you
News If CallNet's plan works, all that could change with the advent of the narrowband revolution. What the Narrowband Revolution will mean to you: The arrival of free Internet access in the UK will cause an explosion in the use of streaming multimedia...
[October 27, 1999, 16:30]
Oftel pushes for cheaper narrowband Internet
News Oftel is pushing for the cost of BT's wholesale unmetered narrowband Internet access products to be cut by 17 percent. The telecoms regulator said on Friday that some of the charges that BT levies on the service providers that use its network to...
[April 4, 2003, 13:25]
Nearly half of UK homes now online
News The British telecoms regulator has concluded that the UK has a competitive market for narrowband Internet access, with nearly half of all UK households now being online. The review looked into the narrowband market (unmetered and metered) including...
[January 29, 2002, 17:06]
AOL swaps Real for Dolby
News America Online is expected to announce that it will replace RealNetworks with Dolby as the default audio streaming technology for its narrowband Net radio service, according to Dolby. AOL will swap RealNetworks' audio streaming technology with...
[March 25, 2003, 12:47]
Dial-up dissatisfaction will keep broadband booming
News Unhappiness about the performance of narrowband Internet connections will ensure that large numbers of Web users keep upgrading to broadband, the latest research has found. Only 53 percent of the narrowband users surveyed said they were happy with...
[August 13, 2003, 18:05]
UK consumers enjoy unmetered, look forward to broadband
News It is not just narrowband access which is capturing the public's imagination either. Oftel is currently investigating both the amount of competition in the narrowband unmetered market and the claims of unfair use of monopoly in the broadband arena.
[February 12, 2001, 13:47]
Telewest slashes cost of broadband
News The move comes hot on the heels of CallNet's decision to dump its narrowband unlimited Internet access service. The continued floundering of narrowband unlimited access services means users are increasingly looking to broadband services to deliver...
[August 8, 2000, 10:22]
BT blocks thousands of 'rogue diallers'
News Thousands of BT narrowband customers have already been tricked into downloading the dial-up software, often when trying to access pay-per-view websites. Another warning to 1.8 million BT retail narrowband customers will also be sent out by email...
[October 6, 2004, 9:50]
BT: Regulators hold back universal broadband
News Verwaayen, speaking at the Carriers World Europe show in London on Wednesday, said that industry regulators in Europe are not thinking "out of the box" and have not realised that narrowband and dial-up services are fundamentally different to...
[September 17, 2003, 18:05]
Flat-rate AOL survives in UK, despite German angst
News AOL had been operating a lottery-style system in Germany, where one thousand customers each week won the right to get an "all you can eat" narrowband Internet access product for 19.90 Euros (around £13.60) per month.
[February 26, 2003, 16:14]
Telewest rolls out cable modem Net access
News The high-speed Internet connection -- download speeds of up to 512kB/s make it up to 15 times faster than narrowband -- will cost users £50 a month, plus a one-off £50 installation fee, offering Telewest customers always-on access via a cable modem.
[March 15, 2000, 16:09]
High-speed Net access from the blueyonder
News Unlike its narrowband cousin SurfUnlimited, Telewest's £10 a month unlimited narrowband Internet service, the company won't undercut BT (quote: BT) with blueyonder. Telewest intends to push full steam ahead with its broadband rollout, and according...
[March 24, 2000, 9:31]
AOL questions Oftel's local loop pricings
News AOL argues that while Monday's announcement will make narrowband among the cheapest in Europe it will put broadband at the high end of the price scale. While AOL is happy that the costs will make narrowband services cheaper, making broadband...
[November 9, 2000, 6:17]
Broadband revolution on hold for next five years
News According to the report -- Hooked on Dial-up: Consumer ISP Trends and Market Share -- most US households will still be relying on narrowband access in 2005. Around 40 percent of US homes will have a narrowband connection to the Internet, with just...
[April 19, 2001, 15:41]
Broadband reaches one in 10
News The government, BT and others have long maintained low broadband penetration rates in the UK are partly to do with good-value narrowband on offer. Separate research has shown broadband adoption growing at these rates while narrowband dial-up levels...
[January 27, 2003, 15:50]
Eye2Eye: Freeserve chief John Pluthero talks to ZDNet UK News
News Our business does not rely on connectivity revenue from narrowband. When we did our business model, we had zero connectivity revenue from narrowband two years down from our start. He says £10 for narrowband, all day, and £25 for broadband.
[March 8, 2000, 12:47]
BT Retail swallows Openworld, but rules out full merger
News Openworld's broadband and narrowband Internet access, together with its portal services, will continue under the openworld name, under the management of Duncan Ingram who had been promoted to managing director.
[December 9, 2002, 15:06]
Broadband for all - government pledges
News The government is desperate to extend the reach of broadband but a quick glance at the report's projections for broadband coverage reveals that huge swathes of the country will remain reliant on narrowband.
[February 13, 2001, 16:19]
Excite@Home buys Bluemountainarts.com for $780m
News The acquisition of Bluemountainarts.com -- the 14th largest site in terms of traffic -- gives Excite@Home's narrowband Excite portal a much-needed traffic boost. The company said Bluemountainarts.com can make the narrowband side of the Excite@Home...
[October 25, 1999, 15:44]
E-envoy calls for end to broadband deadlock
News Bill Gates of Microsoft and Craig Barrett, chief executive of Intel, have both recently said that the Internet will remain a narrowband world for the foreseeable future. We have a competitive narrowband market.but broadband is still quite expensive...
[June 26, 2001, 15:55]
