DSL in comment and analysis
Inbox: Antique computing, Segway protest and ID cards
Comment The whole infrastructure needs upgrading.either that or I want to be able to plug my DSL modem/router directly into the local cabinet! The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader... [11 Sep 2008]
Editor's Blog: The naked truth about DSL
Comment It might sound like something from the seedier side of the internet - but naked DSL might just be the next big thing in broadband. It's basically a DSL broadband service - but without a standard phone... [03 Jul 2008]
Television 2.0 cometh
Comment Integrating components like these and the DSLAM (digital subscriber line access multiplexer - which generates the DSL signals and places them onto the pair of copper wires, or local loop, leading to each home) with brand... [04 Jul 2007]
Editor's Blog: All communications in one place
Comment BT will clearly be a home entertainment player over coming years with its ability to provide IPTV services over DSL lines. What is that place? I ask that somewhat awkward question because this week has seen some of the... [09 Feb 2007]
Analysis: Is convergence unstoppable?
Comment Every week seems to bring news of one mobile or telecoms company or another branching out in new directions - whether it's companies such as Sky offering consumer broadband, BT offering fixed-mobile convergence (FMC), mobile networks... [30 Nov 2006]
Leader: Quad-play quandaries
Leader Mobile companies are buying DSL outfits and that path will naturally lead to IPTV. Last week all eyes were on the to-ing and fro-ing of ITV, NTL and BSkyB as NTL and Sky wrestled for control of the beleaguered broadcaster. [20 Nov 2006]
Telecoms trends
AS Analysis Orange was spurred into offering its own 'free' connectivity plan, O2 bought an ISP and even grande dame Vodafone committed to reselling BT's DSL. Innovation in the communications space is coming from some very unlikely... [25 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No more copper - fibre rules
Comment To be fair the guardians of the copper access network had seen their long-line brethren retire early or find new jobs as their numbers shrank by 90 per cent with the advance of fibre, and naturally enough, the promise of... [07 Sep 2006]
The right way for SMEs to make calls
Comment This will essentially provide three business-grade voice lines alongside internet access over a single DSL connection. Voice over DSL The service will feature a DSL gateway supporting up... [18 Jul 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The GDP threat
Comment The bad news is there has been around 20 years of investment in the wrong technologies (ie more copper cables and DSL) and any abrupt change of course now is really going to hurt! Written whilst driving from Ashville to... [05 May 2006]
Radioactive: Mobile VoIP - not so disruptive
Comment These GSM phones will also operate in VoIP mode on DSL, W-CDMA and wi-fi networks. Mobile IP telephony won't sound the death knell for greedy mobile operators and their healthy profits. In fact, far from being a... [20 Mar 2006]
Leader: Cable marriage - look on the bright side
Leader And, as is seen across the world with the exception of the US, DSL over copper phone lines is growing faster than broadband over cable connections. Though don't go thinking the cablecos don't also have the facility to do... [03 Oct 2005]
Radioactive: Do mobile operators covet broadband?
Comment T-Com, the retail arm of the incumbent Deutsche Telekom, charges roughly twice the price for a 1Mbps DSL service. It's hard to see how the expensive technology (3G) can in the long run compete with the cheaper one... [16 Mar 2005]
Opinion: How broad is broadband?
Comment In Hong Kong, 1GB broadband will be on offer later this year to residential customers and Japan has the widest range of bandwidth services, from 1.5Mbps to over 40Mbps, and is probably the cheapest DSL market in the world. [23 Feb 2005]
BT's new trick: 21CN
Comment BT's plans are to develop an 8Mbps home DSL service and a modem that acts as a home media server. Embracing change, welcoming competition - that can't be BT can it? With a new network planned and a mass migration to VoIP... [07 Feb 2005]
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