Broadband news archive
B4B News archive from October 2006
| Broadband to drive Christmas shopping Christmas retailing online looks set for its best ever year, so web site owners should be by now putting their finishing-touches to their operation in readiness for the expected spending spree. | |
| 21CN foxes customers The next generation of local exchanges that route calls over the internet instead of using switches and cable is now upon us. But the network upgrade, dubbed by BT as 21CN (21st Century Network) is a massive undertaking and will take from now until 2011 to complete. | |
| Hands on Skype One of the great benefits of this gig is getting to try out all the latest web stuff in the interests of research. Over the last six months or more, part of this research/adoption business has involved Skype, the Voice over IP application that allows users to route voice calls over the net for free or at low cost. Time, then, to share some observations… | |
| New Wi-Fi VoIP service launches It looks like an ordinary mobile handset, but the phone being launched next week by internet telephony provider, Coms.com uses Wi-Fi signals to route low cost calls across the web. | |
| VC-ing on the cheap Video conferencing, the technology that allows you to be in two places at once, doesn’t need to cost a fortune. In fact, a perfectly acceptable solution for the small to micro-sized business can be implemented for less than a tenner. Or even for free… | |