bt cable dial in comment and analysis
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment D is for Dial-up C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT The same upbeat tone runs through the Ofcom report - the source of the story (covered here by silicon.com). When broadband was first introduced in the UK in 2000, households in urban areas were... [23 May 2008]
LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking
Comment D is for Dial-up D is for Dial-up C is for Cable & Wireless C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT B is for BT On the difference between LinkedIn and Facebook Dan Nye: LinkedIn and Facebook are very different services. [28 Feb 2008]
How fans can grab a slice of the music pie
Comment D is for Dial-up D is for Dial-up C is for Cable & Wireless C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT B is for BT Courtier-Dutton: Essentially we turn every user on the website into a fully fledged record label. [18 Feb 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Christmas wish list
Comment D is for Dial-up C is for Cable & Wireless B is for BT Every year of my life seems to have been challenging for one reason or another. But I have always been able to stay ahead of the game and keep on top of technology and business. [20 Dec 2007]
Devil's Advocate: The broadband gap
Comment For the time being, users are finding that broadband gives a dramatic speed boost over dial-up. With large improvements in the speed of the optical devices used to drive fibre optic cables, each cable has been able to carry much more traffic than... [08 Jun 2004]
Leader: The CD debate
Leader Perhaps the only solace to take is knowing that dial-up, inevitably not always-on, means less of a risk than DSL, cable, leased lines and so on. And speaking of seedy content (CD.seedy.we know you'll geddit), a BT plan to find another use for... [08 Mar 2004]
Time for a service provider to manage your WLAN?
Comment We also have a big opportunity from customers whose users are currently travelling around Europe and using fixed line dial-up, which is expensive and slow," says Moray Barclay, the manager of Colt's Mobility Programme. [10 Jun 2003]
Time for the wireless, networked laptop
Comment And anyone who has travelled with a dial-up modem and a bag full of different plugs for the world's many and various phone sockets will know that they are about as much use for keeping in touch as a basket of carrier pigeons. [01 May 2002]
Networks - can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em
Comment BT is notoriously reluctant to give service level agreements, least of all to small fry with dial-up accounts or ADSL. Some idiot is bound to put a JCB through a cable or poor coffee down the back of a network switch now and then. [26 Nov 2001]
The Gadget Showdown: DSL v Cable
Comment The speed is noticeably better than dial-up when surfing the web, but not always as much as you'd hope, and seemingly less than ADSL connections I'd tried in California. I also achieved feats unimaginable on a dial-up, like simultaneously... [08 Nov 2001]
Free ISPs vs AOL: who will have the last laugh?
Comment AOL's ace in the hole is a plan to offer free dial-up. A spokesman for the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications said there is an answer to this - get regulators to make the local loop truly competitive by taking the copper out of BT's hands... [17 May 1999]
Is the game up for ISDN?
Comment However, the telcos, wary of cannibalising their existing ISDN and dial-up revenues, are dragging their feet. Although it is primarily being targeted at the consumer market to compete with cable modems, it acts as a plug-and-play version of the... [10 Nov 1998]
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