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Beyond Broadband - A Quiet Revolution

whitepaper When people talk about 'broadband', however, most are talking about Asymmetric DSL (ADSL), which is still essentially a consumer technology. The benefits of the Internet, both for businesses and the consumer are widely documented.

Tags: bandwidth issues, consumer, asymmetric dsl, talk

[11 May 2008]

Meeting Test Challenges for ADSL ICs

whitepaper This asymmetric performance is ideal for market-driving consumer broadband applications like video and Internet access, where very high downstream rates are paramount, while minimal data moves upstream from the user to the CO.

Tags: broadband, consumer, rates, lines

[02 Apr 2008]

Bell Canada Reaches Consumer Mass Market With Triple-Play Services

whitepaper Bell Canada already offered satellite TV services to consumers in rural areas and bundled voice and high-speed data services over Asymmetric DSL (ADSL) to consumers in Toronto and Montreal. Competitive pressures on Bell Canada intensified over the...

Tags: satellite communications, voice, canada, high speed

[28 Nov 2006]

Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries With a Consumer Credit Field Experiment

whitepaper Evidence is found of both adverse selection (among women) and moral hazard (predominantly among men), and the findings suggest that about 20% of default is due to asymmetric information problems. The empirical importance of adverse selection and...

Tags: selection, credit, hazard, moral hazard

[21 Apr 2006]

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL): Using Next Generation Technologies to Expand Traditional Infrastructures

whitepaper DSL allows for greater bandwidth by utilizing more of the bandwidth available on a common analog line and connecting digitally on both the uplink and downlink connection Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is an "always on" high-speed...

Tags: broadband, bandwidth, channel, allocated

[24 Feb 2005]

Opinion: How broad is broadband?

Opinion: How broad is broadband?

Comment It concluded that asymmetric broadband internet access is in a separate market from narrowband internet access and as the government spokesman Lord Sainsbury expressed it: "This revised definition takes account of responses to earlier...

Tags: g7, broadband, uk

[23 Feb 2005]

BT broadband push set to disappoint

BT broadband push set to disappoint

News BT is promoting a 512Kb line, but it is Asymmetric DSL (ADSL) which means the speed offered is one way - to the consumer, not away - and it is run over a shared network so the more users there are the less bandwidth there is, Ostergaard said.

[26 Feb 2002]

BT cuts broadband costs

BT cuts broadband costs

News He also revealed BT's plans to attract one million asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) broadband connections over its network by summer 2003. BT has finally unveiled the new cost of wholesale consumer broadband in the UK.

[26 Feb 2002]

BT one step closer to launching Openworld service

News Using high-speed Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) access technology, the service will also feature consumer and small business content as well as personalisation facilities. The agreement is part of BT's Openworld consumer broadband...

[19 May 2000]

BT lays out broadband Net access roadmap

News Using high-speed Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) access technology, the service will also incorporate consumer and small business content as well as personalisation facilities. BT has unveiled its range of consumer broadband Internet...

[26 Apr 2000]

BT admits tardiness implementing new technology

News Although he believes that BT's number one priority is quality, he explained that the company would only launch services like ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) when they were of the highest standard.

[22 Oct 1999]

ADSL rollout set to kill off ISDN

News The rollout of BT's Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology could see the end of ISDN, according to Silicon.com guest interviewee Dusty McSheffrey. Some people say at consumer level, the actual speed and bit rate makes it very...

[30 Jul 1999]

Is the game up for ISDN?

Comment There are many flavours of DSL technology, but three stand out: ADSL (Asymmetric DSL), DSL Lite and HDSL (High bit-rate DSL). Although it is primarily being targeted at the consumer market to compete with cable modems, it acts as a plug-and-play...

[10 Nov 1998]

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