Category: Broadband

Very often small businesses wonder what broadband in its various forms will do for them, and as the various roll-outs edge closer to universal coverage, more companies are looking into they can use broadband for. This showcase gives people plenty of food for thought.

Virgin Digital is a new download service launched only last week. Telewest has announced a two year deal, giving its customers a range of benefits from the site.

To broadband die-hards it may not seem much, but using an ADSL link to stream content to a hospital radio station is a way of showing broadband in action.

It seems the race for the fastest connections in the UK is on, with the latest news from Bulldog.

After the news last week that BT is to put the SDSL roll-out on hold, further information suggesting a number of SDSL exchanges have no customers is emerging.

The Office of National Statistics is now reporting that broadband formed 52.4% of all Internet connections in the UK.

It seems the world of takeover's has gained another deal, with an initial £594m in cash being paid for Energis.

As each week goes by more exchanges are offering ADSL services, two areas of the UK are promoting the 100% enablement of all exchanges.

ISPA UK (The Internet Services Providers' Association) has announced the launch of the 2006 ISPA Annual Awards. The awards will include six broadband categories as well as three new categories: Best Dial-up, Best Uncontended Service and Best Streaming Service. ISPs will be monitored by Epitiro (formerly Purple Sun) for performance which will form part of the judging process.

A £12.5 million project, launched in November 2003 in Devon to help harness broadband and how it can be exploited by businesses is to expand to cover the whole of Devon.