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News A is for ADSL He cited ADSL+ - coming next year, with top speeds of up to 24Mbps - and said speeds would still "satisfy a lot of apps". B is for BT All-IP next generation networks (NGNs) are being rolled out in the UK - such as BT's 21CN - but NGNs...
[22 Nov 2007]
Comment Their experience of ADSL has been somewhat heavenly. Trouble is, this new flood of custom is stressing-out ISPs like Pipex who will now have to break it to their users that life with ADSL isn't quite a bed of half-megabit roses.
[14 Mar 2002]
News The company claims its fat service outclasses BT's ADSL product. Telewest has begun a high-speed broadband trial that the company said is a direct challenge to BT's ADSL offering. Philip Jansen, managing director of the consumer division at...
[23 Apr 2002]
News West Haddon and Winwick fall within the 10 per cent of the country which BT has said will never be ADSL-enabled but 'Broadband Hero' Sherman and a number of like-minded souls refused to take 'no' for an answer and set about finding a way to bring...
[03 Oct 2003]
News A is for ADSL B is for BT The analyst said the UK's telecoms landscape is set for "enormous change", with the rollout of BT's 21CN all-IP next-gen network this year. Broadband Britain has never had it so good with fat pipes cheaper and faster than...
[01 Feb 2008]
News A is for ADSL ADSL isn't the only type of DSL around, though it's by far the most common. A is for ADSL A is for ADSL A is for ADSL A is for ADSL A is for ADSL Click on the letters in the A to Z list to find out more about the technology that has...
[01 Nov 2006]
News Pipex has denied it has oversubscribed its ADSL service despite growing complaints from customers that download times have become unacceptably high. It points out that because ADSL is a 'contended' service, users share a finite amount of bandwidth.
[14 Mar 2002]
News The biggest piece of equipment in an ADSL network is something called a DSLAM, a device which looks like a small filing cabinet covered in flashing lights which sits in the local exchange and turns a phone line into a fat data pipe.
[27 Feb 2002]
News A is for ADSL B is for BT BT has actually done a very, very good job in terms of getting very wide broadband availability," he told silicon.com. The competitive nature of the UK's broadband market has boosted fat pipe adoption by driving prices down.
[26 Nov 2007]
News A is for ADSL B is for BT Broadband may be as common, and almost as cheap, as chips in Blighty these days but there are plenty of places in the world where bog-standard fat pipes are harder to come by.
[06 Mar 2008]
Comment It's less than "irrelevant" to talk about initiatives to make sure broadband reaches less densely populated parts of the country when its roll-out in urban areas sometimes seems to be just an urban myth ("a friend of a friend of mine has just had...
[11 May 2001]
News A is for ADSL Companies including BT - which has invested billions in overhauling its core network to an all-IP network known as the 21CN - and Virgin Media, which has announced plans to roll out an up to 50Mbps broadband service by the end of next...
[27 Nov 2007]
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, BT should be rolling out these services with subsidies from the government...
[18 Aug 2003]
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 the same way high property...
[15 Aug 2003]
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 broadband stakes, according to European research.
[13 Nov 2006]
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 fat pipe frustrations, with nearly a quarter of respondents saying...
[25 Jan 2008]
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 Point Topic conducted its previous survey of UK broadband...
[11 Dec 2006]
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 connections, up from 3.9 per cent in June and 2.4 per cent back in December 2006.
[22 Nov 2007]
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 customer service satisfaction also fell generally across the...
[13 Nov 2006]
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) but too often the demand...
[13 Apr 2004]
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