broadband in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Blog: New niche for 3G?
Comment As a general trend young people only buy a fixed telephone line to gain broadband access as their lives are centred on mobility and mobile phones. What is now interesting is the prospect that they might just move to 3G for broadband access too. [05 Aug 2008]
Editor's Blog: Back to the future
Comment I was down there to check out a broadband network that is being routed through the sewer - much quicker than digging up the road. We've abseiled down buildings, walked the tracks of the London underground at 2am and this week headed into London's... [24 Jul 2008]
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment At the consumer end of the market, most of us today own a PC and have a fast broadband connection of sorts and yet where in my contract as a parent, did it say that I had to fulfil the role of family IT, security and network manager? [17 Jul 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 line and the expensive line rental that goes... [03 Jul 2008]
Complexity makes travellers miss their connection
Comment As broadband becomes pervasive, so have business travellers' expectations that they will be able to access it. Overall, prices for mobile broadband services are going down. Software that makes mobile broadband easy to use and easy to manage could... [12 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.06.08
Round-Up Now, there's no denying we love our broadband in the UK. Good news - Ofcom has published a voluntary code of practice that sets out guidelines for ISPs to come clean on the download speeds that customers are likely to achieve from their broadband... [06 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.05.08
Round-Up Recently, silicon.com reported that take-up of broadband in rural communities had overtaken that in urban areas for the first time. Promptly moving the goalposts, the spokesperson added: "That is not to say that other divides will not appear in the... [30 May 2008]
Vodafone chief's departure is a sign of the times
Comment Giving what was presumably his final keynote at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) tradeshow in Barcelona in February, Sarin's words certainly had the air of a swan-song - laying out his hopes and dreams for the mobile industry, which... [29 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Rural v City fat pipe row and ID cards
Comment All this reduces the quality of speech calls but is disastrous for dial-up or for broadband. But, if they wished, how many of the remaining 41 per cent of rural dwellers and businesses could get broadband, compared with the remaining 43 per cent of... [29 May 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment Looking at the headline in The Guardian this week and you'd be forgiven for thinking something momentous has happened to Broadband Britain today: 'Fears of digital divide groundless as online access soars in rural areas', it proclaims. [23 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: WFH, LOL?
Comment That might mean having alternative methods of access - a 3G data card rather than broadband - or getting somebody else to complete the task, or even having work to do offline. The average UK commuter spends almost 29 working days each year... [21 May 2008]
Tech Futures: The talkification of the web
Comment To innovate in a changing market, phone companies have devised new service plans, broadband programmes and triple-play offerings. The film and music industries have been turned upside down by the arrival of the internet. [01 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…
Comment Here's how I understand it: I install the femtocell and use my broadband connection to improve my provider's 3G/HSDPA coverage, and they want me to pay them for it. XP lives? Dell and HP find ways to keep Windows XP alive [01 May 2008]
Are we losing the security war?
Comment The broadband society, botnets and the Russian Business Network were, as yet, largely unimagined dangers. Now security experts admit traditional approaches can't keep pace with the growth in malware. What can be done to turn the tide, asks Simon... [29 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive ¦ FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat ¦ Peter... [17 Apr 2008]
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