Broadband news archive
B4B News archive from November 2005
| 20+ Mbps services could be theoretical The last few days have seen a number of internet service providers announce new broadband services of 20mbps or more. But is it all smoke and mirrors? | |
| BT pledge a billion for 21st Century Scotland Scotland is not being left behind in BT’s network overhaul, with the announcement that the telecommunications company will be investing £1 billion over the next five years. | |
| Broadband on the up and up The growth in broadband connections in the UK is continuing to grow healthily while costs for the end user continue to fall and bandwidth speeds rise. | |
| ISPs go after bandwidth
AOL has just become the latest broadband service provider to reveal a new access deal that includes a free router. But why are internet service providers now switching away from free modems that are cheaper for them to supply? | |
| Check mirrors and back up Less than a fifth of the UK’s small businesses bother to keep an off-site data back up even though the vast majority acknowledge they could not function if the worst were to happen. | |
| Harry Potter broadband trailer AOL is making a preview clip from the forthcoming Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire movie available to broadband users. | |
| Saving your bandwidth allowance
With most bar the top end broadband access deals featuring some kind of monthly bandwidth allowance, monitoring data transfer is essential for many small to micro-sized businesses striving to keep costs down. | |
| Tasty broadband deals reign One of the advantages of being a late adopter is that by the time you get round to introducing the technology the bugs have been ironed out and competition among providers is fiercer. | |