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RSS bt adsl fatThe arguments for and against rural broadband
Comment If people in rural areas want broadband then there are alternatives to BT's ADSL. And that was rendered outdated when Thatcher privatised BT. Ah but, comes the argument,... [18 Aug 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.08.03
Round-Up One of these city-dwelling spoilsports was probably silicon.com reader Simon Curry who believes having to pay for expensive alternatives to ADSL broadband should just be a natural downside of living in rural Britain, in... [15 Aug 2003]
UK firms are broadband laggards
News A is for ADSL B is for BT Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about fat pipes. UK companies are lagging behind their continental rivals in the... [13 Nov 2006]
Brits suffering fat pipe rage
News A is for ADSL B is for BT Firing up fat pipes is inducing techno-rage in many UK broadband customers, according to a survey commissioned by O2 Broadband. Speed tops the list of... [25 Jan 2008]
Cardiff poised to steal Swindon's fat pipe crown?
News A is for ADSL B is for BT The Welsh capital was chosen by BT for initial tests of 21CN, with the first customers hooked up to the new network last month. Back in December 2005, when... [11 Dec 2006]
Broadband: King of the net connections
News A is for ADSL B is for BT And fat pipe speeds are on the up too - at least on paper. Top speeds - of more than 8Mbps - were achieved by four per cent of UK fat pipe... [22 Nov 2007]
Brits still dissatisfied with broadband speeds
News A is for ADSL B is for BT Almost a third (28 per cent) of fat pipe subscribers - an estimated 4.2 million customers - in the UK are not satisfied with the speed they receive from their... [14 Jul 2008]
Third of UK homes still without web access
News A is for ADSL B is for BT Of the homes that have internet access the vast majority (86 per cent) are getting their web love via fat pipes, while dial-up continues its lingering death,... [27 Aug 2008]
TalkTalk bottom for broadband customer service
News A is for ADSL B is for BT 'Free' broadband providers TalkTalk and Orange have the worst customer service and support, according to an annual survey of almost 15,000 fat pipe users. But... [13 Nov 2006]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment A is for ADSL B is for BT In the UK, poverty is predominantly an urban issue - so looked at from that perspective the Ofcom state-of-the-broadband-nation report suggests high speed internet access might... [23 May 2008]
Ofcom: Mobile broadband driving interest in fibre
News A is for ADSL B is for BT Comparatively sluggish fat pipes are damaging UK Plc, according to comms industry organisation, the Communications Management Association (CMA) - part of the... [04 Jul 2008]
Analysis: Think tanks fill up on broadband
Comment Of course increasing broadband speed is important, and the lack of investment beyond ADSL is lamentable ("'[r]eal' broadband will I suspect need a lot more digging up roads and laying of infrastructure", Young observes)... [13 Apr 2004]
Cheat Sheet: FTTx
Cheat Sheet But, like the ADSL we know now, such technologies see speeds decrease the further away the premises are from the telephone exchange and it's thought the 24Mbps speeds are only achievable for those less than a few hundred... [11 May 2007]
BT cuts see Thus slash broadband costs
News UK telco Thus has announced it is to cut the cost of its business broadband service following BT's wholesale ADSL price cuts. He said: "While we welcome the wholesale price cuts, it is disappointing that... [01 May 2003]
More exchanges get promise of broadband
News BT's broadband registration scheme is showing further signs of success, with 33 local exchanges recently getting the green light to be upgraded to offer ADSL. He added that BT's decision... [14 Jan 2003]
