Category: Broadband

Whilst the benefits of broadband are often described in terms of speed, its uses are far wider with an always-on connection and a change in lifestyle bringing the Internet closer to your everyday life, rather than something you spend an hour each night browsing. We recently ran a poll to ask users how much data they transferred each month on their broadband connection, with interesting results indicating that there was a great deal of spread within the categories we provided.

On Tuesday 28th September Tony Blair laid out his vision that every home that wants broadband by 2008 will have it.

BBC News has details of a hint by BT that it may re-calculate the pricing on the standard if its previous sums prove to be wrong.

DSLForum has published statistics showing the number of DSL users around the world at the end of June 2004.

A tax on broadband connections to be given to the music industry. Could it be a solution to the illegal sharing of music?

The London Evening Standard has launched a new digital media service - London Music Network. Which works in conjunction with CD's provided with the paper and the BT Rich Media Platform.

The Office of National Statistics has the nice little number that more people are now using broadband than an unmetered dial-up account.

The 2nd September edition of Guardian Online discussed the possibility of 'naked DSL' with no line rental being paid to BT. The facts are a little different.

Ofcom has published details of its direction regarding Voice over Broadband / VoIP services.

It would seem the relentless pursuit for faster connections continues in the US with Time-Warner announcing a 6Mbps service