Archive for March 8th, 2008
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Understanding Broadband Services
Fletcher Mak asked: Broadband is often known as the high speed Internet due to its speedy data transmission. The normal Internet connection that is being offered to the customer is 256 kbit/s (0.256 Mbit/s) or more, and thus it comes to be known as the broadband Internet access. It has become a popular medium in [...]
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Is Cheap Broadband About to Go the Way of Cheap Petrol, Cheap Flights, Cheap Rice?
Shirley Stevens asked: In the past, European competition laws restricted BT’s stranglehold on telephone line access throughout the UK. There was a process known as LLU, or ‘local-loop unbundling’, which permitted companies to establish their own equipment in BT exchanges, paying BT part of the line rental they collected.
The outcome of this was cheaper [...]