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Heathrow Express rolls out 2Mbps wi-fi
News All Heathrow Express trains have been wi-fi-enabled to provide passengers with broadband speeds of up to 2Mbps for the 15 to 20 minute journey. The service, providing a direct link between Paddington station and Heathrow Airport, offers... [24 Apr 2007]
Heathrow Express to get connected with wi-fi
News All Heathrow Express trains will be wi-fi enabled by early 2007, providing broadband access to passengers for the entire journey. The wi-fi offering, to be provided by T-Mobile, will enable passengers to access the internet at speeds of... [07 Nov 2006]
Zen Internet Offers Successful Home Worker Solution to Peninsula Business Services
White Paper Peninsula Business Services Ltd provides Health, Safety, Personnel and Employment Law consultancy to a wide client base across the UK. Peninsula's Internet connectivity was proving too slow and inefficient, taking up valuable business time. [04 Aug 2008]
Bulldog does pay-as-you-go broadband
News Bulldog has taken inspiration from the dark days of dial up with its latest broadband offering - pay-as-you-go broadband. The package will give consumers 8Mbps access for 3p per minute with no line rental. [16 Nov 2005]
Vodafone jumps on broadband bandwagon
News Vodafone is to begin offering broadband internet service to its consumer customers on 8 January 2007. For £25 per month, customers will get broadband with speeds of up to 8Mbps and 25 per cent off mobile-to-mobile calls. [10 Nov 2006]
24Mbps broadband comes to London
News Londoners could soon see broadband speeds triple to 24Mbps, as a recently launched company has promised to deliver fast ADSL2+ internet services. Be, which until recently traded under the name Avatar Broadband, said the service will... [01 Jul 2005]
Heathrow T5 gets massive wi-fi hotspot
News Heathrow's Terminal 5 has gone live with a wi-fi hotspot for its passengers. The service is aimed particularly at business travelers who can access the network using laptops, PDAs and mobiles, with the T5 network promising speeds of up... [04 Sep 2008]
Zen Internet joins local loop unbundlers
News Business ISP Zen Internet has announced its own local loop unbundling (LLU) trial, with the Rochdale exchange the first to be set free. From next month, customers in the area will be migrated from BT onto Zen's network and see their... [21 Oct 2005]
Texas Instruments opens DSL modem plant
News Texas Instruments (TI) is opening a DSL (digital subscriber line) modem factory in Bejing, China, with Legend Group - the country's largest PC maker. The two companies will work together on a DSL consumer modem based on TI's DSL chips. [06 Aug 1999]
UK broadband - slow but plentiful
News The UK is known for offering plentiful but slow broadband services, according to recent analyst reports. Three-quarters of UK households will be connected to the net via broadband by 2011, JupiterResearch predicts. [19 Oct 2006]
Onetel and Easynet team up for next gen fat pipes
News Onetel, the telecommunications wing of utility giant Centrica, has teamed up with Easynet to offer its broadband services to businesses and consumers. Easynet is one of the few operators to use local-loop unbundling (LLU) to install its... [01 Aug 2005]
Orange woos the mobile workforce
News Orange has launched its fixed-line business broadband service, as predicted at the end of May. Announced on Wednesday, the offering combines the fixed-line services launched earlier in the year with an extension of the Business... [15 Jun 2006]
Fat pipes fatter - but not as fat as we think...
News Broadband speeds have more than quadrupled since 2003 but many users still aren't receiving the level of service they think they are getting. The average UK broadband speed is 2.03Mbps, according to research from independent broadband... [23 Feb 2007]
Lucent offers three-in-one modem
News Lucent Technologies has unveiled a chip set which combines V.90, ADSL Lite and full ADSL access technologies in a PC or single modem. Lucent's WildWire offering is based on a single digital signal processor, the DSP1691. [06 Apr 2000]
Are you a normal broadband user?
News Research out today shows the average UK broadband connection is now running at just under 2Mbps. According to research consultancy XTN Data, the largest group of broadband users - 39 per cent - have speeds of 2Mbps, followed by 29 per... [15 Mar 2006]
