Broadband News and Information
- Wireless Lamppost Trial
- Broadband Cover (most of) Scotland
- Broadband and Telephone Outage at Christmas
- Europe Report Broadband Growth
- Broadband for all Scotland by end of 2005
- Broadband Election Promises
- BT to trial 8MB Broadband in Strathclyde area
- BT to commence ADSL2+ trials
- Scotland's Broadband Bus
More than 35m new Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL) were wired up around the world during 2004 as demand for broadband continued to soar.
By the end of 2004 there were 97m DSL lines around the world - an increase of 60 per cent on the year, according to research from Point Topic.
China heads the DSL league table with 17m lines - up 4.4m on the year. The US has 13.7m DSL lines.
Demand for DSL continues to be strong in Europe with France, UK, Germany and Italy all adding more than 1m lines each over the year.
On April 25th 2005 the Scottish Executive has announced that all Scotland's Communities will have Broadband by the end of 2005.
In the UK, BT announced that they would pass 5 million broadband connections in week commencing 4th April 2005, stating that this was one year ahead of schedule. (read more of this story in The Register) From their Press Release British Telecom is predicting that:-
- "The UK economy could be boosted by up to 7.5 billion pounds through productivity gains attributed to broadband
- Up to 16 billion fewer miles could be driven as broadband enables more people to work from home and shop online
- Every school child in Britain will be able to learn via broadband
- More than 18 million people in the UK will be shopping online
- Millions of hospital outpatient appointments will be booked over broadband.”