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The A to Z of broadband

News Click on the letters in the A to Z list to find out more about the technology that has revolutionised internet access - from ADSL to zombies. ADSL is offered by roughly 200 different ISPs in the UK, with all manner of extra options for consumers to...

Tags: broadband, adsl, hsdpa, bt

[01 Nov 2006]

The politics of premises: Co-location and unbundling the local loop

Comment With Redstone leading the way, non-BT supplied ADSL services will be available to some customers by 1 April. He said: "BT already have a head start with their own ADSL in place," and added that this advantageous position is precisely why "the...

[30 Jan 2001]

Virgin touts free broadband speed upgrade

News Virgin described this as 'a significant speed advantage' over regular 8Mbps ADSL connections and said the free upgrade will roll out by region from late next month and be completed by late summer. A is for ADSL

Tags: broadband, speed, virgin, cable

[28 Jan 2008]

<strong>BT</strong>'s recalcitrance forces Clara.net <strong>to</strong> drop <strong>ADSL</strong> rollout

BT's recalcitrance forces Clara.net to drop ADSL rollout

News It is currently reselling BT's ADSL service but he admitted the company was making little money out of it because BT's pricing is too high. Charles Nasser, the company's founder and CEO, said that while it hasn't ruled out ADSL altogether, the...

[27 Apr 2001]

Where next for broadband Britain?

News He cited ADSL+ - coming next year, with top speeds of up to 24Mbps - and said speeds would still "satisfy a lot of apps". A is for ADSL All-IP next generation networks (NGNs) are being rolled out in the UK - such as BT's 21CN - but NGNs do not...

Tags: ngn, nga, broadband, fibre

[22 Nov 2007]

Telco packages overwhelm customers

News A is for ADSL B is for BT Ofcom has called for simplifying the process of switching providers and recently received support from BT for the cause. Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know about broadband.

Tags: telcos, survey, ofcom, uk

[17 Nov 2006]

Ofcom and ISPs kiss and MAC up

News A is for ADSL B is for BT A BT spokesman told silicon.com that the company was fully behind the proposals. Click on the links below to find out more. All broadband service providers will soon be required to provide migration authorisation codes...

Tags: mac, ofcom, bt

[13 Dec 2006]

Faster speeds on the cards for Broadband Britain?

News A is for ADSL Tiscali CEO, Mary Turner, recently told silicon.com fibre to the cabinet - aka backhaul - needs to be "commercialised" as BT is not currently obliged by Ofcom to resell it. B is for BT Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: broadband, fibre, ofcom, high speed

[22 Feb 2008]

BT lags in broadband satisfaction stakes

News A is for ADSL BT declined to comment on the findings. B is for BT BT has come bottom of the eight major UK broadband providers in a customer satisfaction survey. Behind Tiscali comes Virgin Media with a score of 660, then Sky (657), AOL (646...

Tags: jd power, broadband, isps, customer

[06 Dec 2007]

Broadband summit: Speed is the key

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...

Tags: ofcom, broadband, ngn, economy

[27 Nov 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Christmas wish list

Comment A is for ADSL B is for BT Click on the links below to find out more. I have to go east to find a world of satisfying connectivity and associated creativity. The software that will allow me to model, role-play, war-game, hypothesise and test out...

Tags: artificial intelligence, christmas, applications, play

[20 Dec 2007]

'Unlimited broadband' thing of the past?

News A is for ADSL At conferences where the likes of Tiscali and BT are present, you hear them say these things - 'We must move to a new tariffing scheme' - and that tells me they're working hard on this. B is for BT

Tags: broadband, iplayer, youtube, isps

[17 Mar 2008]

Broadband speeds under scrutiny

News A is for ADSL B is for BT Click on the links below to find out more. The Consumer Panel has held discussions with the UK's six leading ISPs to find out why actual and advertised broadband speeds don't always tally.

Tags: advertising, broadband, speed, consumer

[19 Dec 2007]

Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'

Berners-Lee bigs up the 'semantic web'

News A is for ADSL B is for BT Click on the links below to find out more. He gave the example of combining online bank statements and photos with a desktop calendar, allowing people to work out what they were doing when they took a particular photo.

Tags: berners-lee, semantic web, google, internet

[13 Mar 2008]

BT unveils long-awaited DSL roadmap

News Bill Cockburn, group managing director of BT, said: "I think businesses, large and small, will find there is terrific potential in ADSL technology. The telco plans to upgrade 400 exchanges in the UK's ten largest cities, including Belfast...

[30 Jul 1999]

Diary of an ADSL disaster

Comment In fact, according to one unhelpful helpdesk assistant, BT isn't sure if central London has any ADSL coverage yet anyway. Despite ADSL's apparent continuing no-show in Oxford Circus, the customer service desk agrees to a connection date of 11...

[04 Jun 2001]

LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking

Comment A is for ADSL A is for ADSL B is for BT B is for BT His company spends $1m per year on market research tools and none of the tools were able to help him find experts to find out more about the investment opportunity.

Tags: linkedin, network, online, facebook

[28 Feb 2008]

BT sets out agenda - at last

Comment For a company and a man accused of dragging heels over ADSL roll-out and free Internet access, these are bold words. Our panel of experts said unlike those that made it - who were often bigger than their companies - Sir Peter (who would admittedly...

[14 Apr 2000]

Devil's Advocate: Waking up to broadband

Comment One concern that held me back was that ADSL broadband is absolutely controlled by BT. Now, although BT frequently offers a range of alternative pricing plans, whenever I have worked out the details, they all turn out to be almost exactly equivalent.

Tags: bt openworld, bt broadband, devil, adsl

[13 May 2003]

The best of Reader Comments: The broadband backlash, lazy voters and Gates' Linux lashing

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]

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