Super Fast Broadband – Now the fine print starts to appear

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

I talked yesterday about the announcement from Telecom that they will be offering a service using VDSL2 technology to allow customers huge increases in broadband speed from around 5mbps to 50 mbps for downloads and from around 0.7 mbps to 20mbps upload.I also talked about whether these speeds will be ...

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VDSL2 – Is it going to be as good as they say?

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Telecom have announced their next generation broadband network will allow download speeds of up to 50mbps and upload of 20mbps.Now if this is true, it is going to make my life and many people who rely on the internet as a medium for large amounts of data.It also addresses one ...

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ADSL / Broadband at 100mbps – Thats Superfast!

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

An Australian researcher has provided an algorithm to produce speeds of up to 100mbps on existing ADSL networks. If this is correct, this will be one of the most significant shifts in the internet's infrastructure. Content will shift to more real-time and social networking sites and rich media sites will boom. Web ...

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Microsoft’s Coffee Table

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Wasn't this around 20 years ago? Check here to see some pics.

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WiMax war hotting up

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

The local Wimax war gets hotter by the day as the looming auction of spectrum closes in. After delaying it already, the Government needs to make sure they dont shoot the industry in the foot by pandering to the largest players. To do so would destroy the benefits delivered by unbundling.

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