Broadband news archive
B4B News archive from December 2006
| Bandwidth for free It’s almost inevitable that Santa’s sack this year will include a fair number of wireless devices such as laptops and personal digital assistants. Want to know how you can surf the net for free? | |
| Broadband as a customer incentive Getting clients through the door is a fundamental for any business - particularly those in the hospitality and tourism sector. Anything that increases throughput is therefore worth taking a look at. | |
| Jetting to the sun via broadband Forget expensive airline travel to foreign climes in the Southern Hemisphere…go there via broadband. | |
| Tags just when you need them Picture this: you are at the kitchen table wrapping presents that need to be posted the next day when you run out of gifts tags. The shops are shut and you don’t fancy braving the elements to go to the filling station on the off chance it stocks them. What do you do? | |
| Free back up trial One of the major business benefits of broadband is the ability to back up business-critical data to a remote server. Now, there’s a chance to see for yourself at no cost. For a new remote back up service - just launched by Telstra Europe – can be tried out for free for thirty days. | |
| ‘Broadband for all’ under consideration Ofcom, the communications regulator in the UK, has indicated that a mandate for universal broadband is now under consideration. | |
| Router mountain threatens environment By the end of next year there could be over two million redundant routers and modems discarded because the user has switched broadband provider. | |