December 20, 2004

Four million on broadband

by brian_turner

British Telecom reported that they get a new sign-up for broadband services every 10 seconds. They also claim that there are now more than 4 million internet users in the UK who are connected via broadband – the last million of which were signed up over the past 4 months.

According to Broadband in the UK gathers pace:

Part of the surge in people signing up was due to BT stretching the reach of ADSL – the UK’s most widely used way of getting broadband – beyond six kilometres.

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line technology lets ordinary copper phone lines support high data speeds. The standard speed is 512kbps, though faster connections are available.

According to BT, more than 95% of UK homes and businesses can receive broadband over the phone line. It aims to extend this figure to 99.4% by next summer.

There are also an estimated 1.7 million cable broadband customers in the UK.

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