Broadband still gaining as preferred connection
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That whining, hissing sound isn't as loud as it used to be, but you can still hear it out there. It's the sound of people using phone lines to dial onto the Internet. About 62 million of us still do it, according to data from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. But it's getting harder to understand why.
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Just over half of US Internet users now connect through broadband, according to a new survey. Nielsen/Netratings reports that in July, 51 percent of Internet users had DSL, cable, or other fast
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Investor's Business Daily - After spending billions to upgrade their infrastructure for broadband communications, telecom firms are fast filling their wireless and fiber networks with video traffic.
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The Internet most of us experience is not the World of Ends suggested by the end-to-end system design concepts around which the Net was originally architected and built.  Instead we have something that is faster-than-dialup, and faster-than-it-used-to-be; but is not The Net. Instead it is the part of the Net that's left in a pipe that's optimized for television, for one-way few-to-many "content delivery" and for locking users into client roles, while servers labor somewhere else. I just had FTTH (fiber to the home) installed. And, while it's way cool in some ways, it's also uncool in the way it prevents far more business than it generates for itself. It would be great if the carriers made it easy for businesses to grow on the Net, and then suppoted those businesses with services that helped those businesses thrive and grow. But the carriers would rather serve "content" to mass quantities of "consumers" while chaging prohibitive prices for "business-class" services. Hey, it's a mass media mentality, and they have every right to it. But...
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Australian uptake of broadband Internet has exceeded expectations, with Telstra announcing its one millionth broadband customer a year ahead of schedule.
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A small majority of US Internet users are connected with broadband service for the first time. 51 percent of home Internet connections are broadband services in July, according to a Nielsen/NetRatings report.
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For the first time ever, more Americans are seeking faster connections to access the Internet.
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As travelers spend billions online, Internet options keep growing.
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Broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) led a global boom in broadband Internet access over the 12 months ended June 30, growing to about 78 million total subscribers as users of all broadband services surpassed 123 million, the DSL Forum announced Wednesday.
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As many homes have high-speed access today as had any Internet connection in 2000, study says.
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The number of broadband connections in the US has jumped by 38% in a year, according to official figures.
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But UK still in the dark There are now over one million fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband connections in Europe, according to an Informa report.â¦
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Broadband will be as widely available as analogue TV by the middle of next year, according to BT. BT has struggled to extend the reach of broadband to certain areas of the country because until now 512Kbps ADSL connections would not work ...
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Yet another communications-infrastructure player reports promising results.
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When Scott Richards is at his home in Portland, Ore., he taps into the Internet using a broadband connection from his office about five miles away.
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Optus says it has achieved more than 250,000 broadband subscribers, as it continues to benefit from an industry-wide surge in popularity for the internet service.
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More than half of all US residential Internet users reached the Web via fast broadband connections in July, outpacing use of slower, dial-up connections for the first time, market researcher Nielsen//NetRatings said on ...