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News Internet users in many urban areas around the UK may soon be able to get a broadband connection of eight megabits per second - four times faster than the quickest consumer service being trialled by BT.
[19 Nov 2004]
News BT is on track to start testing significantly faster broadband services next month, but only a small fraction of UK internet users will be able to take part. BT Retail announced on Monday that it is engaging in the wholesale trials of 8Mbps ADSL...
[09 Mar 2005]
News The average speed of an 8Mbps broadband connection is just 2.7Mbps, according to a survey released by Which? the consumer rights group. Which? surveyed 300 people who had signed up to broadband services advertised as being "up to" 8Mbps in download...
[03 Aug 2007]
News A UK company claims to have launched an 8Mbps broadband service based on BT's IPStream Max, two months before BT plans to launch this service itself. Details of Freedom2surf's new 8Mbps service were released on Thursday on the company's website...
[23 Jan 2006]
News Easynet has launched the first challenge to BT in wholesale broadband with its 8Mbps LLUStream service. The new service is aimed at carriers, ISPs and system integrators and the company is already in talks with a clutch of ISPs.
[13 Dec 2004]
News BT is planning to launch a commercial 8Mbs broadband service nationwide this November, later than at least one internet service provider had expected. The telco began trialling a wholesale 8Mbps ADSL service in parts of London and Strathclyde in...
[07 Jun 2005]
News Wanadoo has announced the fruits of its experiments with local loop unbundling (LLU), including a new speed boost to rival BT's mooted increase. Wanadoo revealed today that from next month, its customers in LLU areas will be able to access...
[17 Oct 2005]
News Carphone Warehouse has put an end to speculation on its free broadband product by revealing what it calls 'free broadband forever'. For £9.99 a month and an additional £11 line rental, Carphone customers will get free local and national calls...
[11 Apr 2006]
News Broadband Britain has never had it so good with fat pipes cheaper and faster than ever. Average broadband costs have dropped 36 per cent in the last four years, according to price comparison site uSwitch.
[01 Feb 2008]
News Broadband use in the UK is inching up towards 90 per cent of all internet connections, according to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). And fat pipe speeds are on the up too - at least on paper.
[22 Nov 2007]
News France Telecom has completed the branding transformation that will see it - and its ISP subsidiary, Wanadoo, and business arms Equant and Etrali - brought under the Orange brand. The renaming exercise will be accompanied by a raft of new business...
[31 May 2006]
News BT had set a launch date of November for the trials of its 8Mbps ADSL broadband Max service, with a full rollout expected in spring 2006. The launch of this faster broadband is key for BT as it recovers from the failure of SDSL to capture a large...
[14 Oct 2005]
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 passengers...
[24 Apr 2007]
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 up to 8Mbps...
[07 Nov 2006]
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]
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]
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 dwarf current...
[01 Jul 2005]
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 connection...
[21 Oct 2005]
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]
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]
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