Category: Broadband

Motorola has published research showing how the broadband market varies across Europe. The UK people surveyed often appeared to have lower awareness of how the broadband market is changing.

Venture capital to the tune of $22m is being sunk into a firm that is aiming to create easy access to peoples broadband connections via Wi-Fi.

The race to make the computer a central hub to home entertainment continues, with the news that Channel 4 is to broadcast its channel output over the Internet.

Japan and Korea often end up at the top of broadband surveys, and in an article on VNUnet you can see why, with 5.35 million homes and businesses using fibre based connections.

Somerset County Council is keen to not be left behind as the major urban centres of the UK march onward in the broadband landscape.

The Western Isles are possibly one area of the UK where broadband access can make a very big difference to people, and the work in the area represents possibly the best of UK broadband.

ZDNet has reported on some analysis that warns that we may be in the middle of telecoms mini-bubble.

Many users will associate the words 'p2p' with downloading movies and music online when they know they really shouldn't be, but this is in fact just a protocol implying connections from an end user (peer) to another user as opposed to the traditional link between a server and a user. This technology is a distributed delivery mechanism which is more difficult to control and thus has been very effectively used for illegal file sharing.

A report for InternetNZ places the UK towards the bottom of the rankings for overall value for money at 20th place.

Flextech Television are one of the latest companies to provide content for downloading.