DSL in news
RSS DSL in newsOne in five of world's households now wired to the web
News DSL connections, on the other hand, will remain the major contributor to worldwide household broadband connections. Traditional DSL access is expected to drop a few percentage points to just under 60 per... [28 Sep 2009]
Mobile WiMax won't win race to become 4G king
News We see mobile WiMax [as being] less about mobile broadband and far more about an untethered, ubiquitous DSL alternative, delivering an open IP broadband connection across town centres and things of that nature, rather... [23 Jul 2009]
Virgin Media trials 200Mbps broadband
News Ian Fogg, principal analyst at Forrester Research, told silicon.com that while he doesn't believe Virgin will be offering a commercial 200Mbps service anytime soon the company is nevertheless firing "a shot across the bows" of... [08 May 2009]
Ericsson racks up 500Mbps speeds over copper
News The data-transfer rates were achieved using a version of digital subscriber line (DSL) technology called 'vectorised' VDSL2, Ericsson said in a statement. This demonstration confirms Ericsson's leadership in... [17 Mar 2009]
Mobile broadband: You get more data for less lucre
News In Germany, Ireland, Spain and Sweden average mobile broadband prices are significantly lower than the most popular fixed line DSL broadband service, which the report said is driving customers to choose mobile broadband... [04 Dec 2008]
Broadband: Incumbents' grasp slipping in Europe
News In July 2003, the EC found, incumbents controlled 77.9 per cent of Europe's DSL broadband lines. According to the research, just over 15 per cent of all Europe's DSL lines are found in the UK. As the EU... [01 Dec 2008]
IPTV: Telcos' secret weapon against mobile broadband
News Analyst house Analysys believes the proportion of mobile-only homes in the UK will continue to rise - it recently predicted around one-quarter of broadband homes will be pulling the plug on fixed-line DSL and connecting... [27 Nov 2008]
Quarter of broadband homes to ditch DSL for mobile
News According to industry watchers Analysys, around one quarter of broadband homes will be pulling the plug on fixed-line DSL and connecting over 3G - so-called mobile broadband - by 2013. Around half of DSL... [15 Oct 2008]
Google's vision for an open wireless world
News Of course, consumers don't have the same issues in the broadband market, where people can connect to any broadband network using any computer, whether it be a wi-fi, cable or DSL connection. Google's vision of tomorrow's... [29 Sep 2008]
C&W pays £30m for FMC
News The supermarket giant signed a £100m deal with C&W for the overhaul of its telecoms network - including the installation of fixed networking for stores and FMC services based on picocells, to route the calls over fixed-line... [12 Sep 2008]
Ofcom: Copper capable of high-speed broadband
News An Ofcom assessment has predicted that DSL over normal copper phone lines could take virtually the whole country to broadband speeds of 50Mbps or more, as long as optical fibre is laid to the street cabinets used by the... [22 Aug 2008]
WiMax - spreading to more UK businesses
News Like the company Freedom4 - a spin-off from the former Pipex Wireless - On-Communications is offering fixed WiMax as a cheaper, wireless alternative to symmetrical DSL. On-Communications has said it has decided WiMax is... [10 Jul 2008]
Femtocells to speed arrival of next-gen mobile networks?
News Industry association body the Femto Forum and operator community group the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance have announced they will work together to ensure the DSL-piggybacking tech works with next... [30 Jun 2008]
Femtocell market hotting up
News Femtocells - aka mobile base stations which piggyback off DSL to boost mobile reception indoors - could have inched a little closer to the consumer's living room. Agreeing principles for interoperability between... [21 May 2008]
Nationwide WiMax in next two years?
News However, according to Patel, WiMax is not going to be a "competitor to 3G or DSL", rather it will form a new market and all the technologies can happily co-exist. Speaking at a roundtable discussion yesterday, Ashish... [09 May 2008]
