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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. Only 9 percent of UK households have a high-speed connection to the Net...
[September 9, 2002, 11:38]
UK Rural Broadband Penetration Overtakes Urban
News Across the UK as a whole, the statistics show there is a greater proportion of households with high-speed internet access in the countryside than in built-up areas: 59 percent to 57 percent. The watchdog claimed this marks an important shift for...
[May 23, 2008, 8:27]
What Has Broadband Done For Us?
News By the end of this year, some 1.8 million households in the UK will have access to high-speed Internet services, or just over 5 percent of all households nationwide. It might not have arrived in time to ride the wave of the Internet boom, but the...
[March 31, 2004, 12:15]
UK Bottom Of Broadband League Table
News In the UK only one in 32 online households (a mere 3.1 percent) have a broadband connection, whereas one in every two online families in Korea enjoys high-speed services. France has one in 16 households connected via broadband, twice that enjoyed...
[April 3, 2001, 6:18]
Government Throws Cash At Broadband Problem
News BT claims that 13 million households are able to receive ADSL, now that it has made over 1,000 local exchanges ADSL-enabled. They believe that around 9 million households could connect to their services.
[October 9, 2001, 11:48]
Government 'interested' In Universal Broadband
News It currently plans to make ADSL available to at least 80 percent of households by mid 2005. According to latest figures from the BSG, 67 percent of the country is covered by broadband, but just 6.2 percent of households with access to broadband...
[November 22, 2002, 11:28]
'Urgent Action Needed' Over Broadband Divide
News One of the leading figures in the UK broadband scene has demanded immediate action to address the fact that one in three households cannot get affordable broadband. Recent official figures indicate that some 63 percent of households and 68...
[October 21, 2002, 14:17]
Scandinavia Shames UK In Broadband League
News In contrast, in the UK the figure is a meagre 2.3 percent of Internet-connected households, or just 210,600 homes. In August, a total of 9.1m UK households were connected to the Internet. Almost 14 percent of Internet-connected Swedish households...
[October 1, 2001, 17:19]
Broadband Britain Storms To Three Million Customers
News In the last five years the Internet has moved from the margins to the mass market, with half of all UK households and two-thirds of businesses now online. Oftel says that more than 40,000 households and businesses a week are currently receiving a...
[December 10, 2003, 11:35]
UK To Smash Half-million Broadband Milestone
News South Korea has the world's biggest broadband population, with more than 50 percent of its 14.3 million households connected to a high-speed line. Telecoms regulator Oftel is poised to announce that there are more than half a million mass-market...
[April 24, 2002, 15:02]
Intel Chief: UK Well Positioned To Lead Europe
News In the US, where broadband technologies such as cable-modems and ADSL have been on the market for years, availability to consumers is still geographically limited, and total broadband usage represents a tiny fraction of the households connected to...
[June 20, 2001, 16:16]
Government In Cloud Cuckoo Land Over Broadband
News The frank criticism follows a Jupiter survey which claims rollout of broadband services across Europe will be far slower than some had hoped, with only 14 percent of households -- 10 million people -- connected to broadband on the continent by 2005.
[April 10, 2001, 13:17]
BT To Launch Satellite Broadband Service
News BT has recently announced that this range will be extended to 5.5km -- using a technology called "Rate Adaption" -- but this still only makes ADSL available to 13 million households, mostly near major cities.
[July 31, 2001, 12:54]
Mesh Radio Trial Could Help Rural Broadband
News One hundred households are to partipate in the trial, and each will get access to interactive television and video-on-demand services through a node -- or small cylinder -- placed on an outside wall. High-speed Internet access will not be...
[June 28, 2002, 14:45]
Government Urged To Act On Wireless Broadband
News Currently, around one-third of households can't access either BT's ADSL network or the cable networks of NTL and Telewest -- and it is likely that around 10 percent will never be offered affordable wired broadband.
[November 25, 2002, 15:54]
Government Hopes Ex-gas Regulator Can Kick-start Broadband Britain
News A recent report found that Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, Spain and Norway all have a much greater percentage of their Net-connected households using broadband than the UK. According to The Sunday Times, Spottiswoode has already spoken to the...
[December 3, 2001, 11:32]
BT's Broadband Vision Explored
News By contrast, BT's ADSL will reach six million households by the end of June, with a rollout in 27 UK cities. Deutsche Telekom has already rolled out ADSL in nearly 60 cities, reaching 17 million households.
[April 6, 2000, 15:03]
Asia Leads The Way In Broadband Growth
News The number of households and businesses worldwide with high-speed DSL Internet connections has hit 26 million -- with South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong leading the way. See the Broadband News Section for the latest on cable modems, ADSL, satellite...
[August 28, 2002, 9:31]
Broadband Reaches One In 10
News In a release issued on Monday, Oftel notes there are 30,000 new broadband subscriptions every week right now, meaning the UK has over 1.4 million households with high-speed Net access. One in 10 home Internet users in the UK now use broadband...
[January 27, 2003, 15:50]
Broadband Blunders Hit UK Online
News The report reveals that in the last 12 months, 38 percent of UK households have connected to the Internet, with 51 percent of adults accessing the Internet from home, work or a public access point. But in September 2001, only 180,000 broadband...
[December 4, 2001, 12:52]
