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Dial-up's twilight years
It has been a remarkable period of growth for high-speed net access. In January 2001, when the ONS began compiling net data, broadband accounted for less than one percent of connections.
By contrast dial-up connections have been in decline for the last three years.
Broadband is increasingly becoming an attractive proposition, with many internet service providers upgrading their customers to faster speeds of 1Mbps (megabits per second) and 2Mbps for no extra cost.
Most recently, there has been a flurry of super-fast (8Mbps) services becoming available.
Jupiter Research predicts that by 2010, 80% of online households in Europe will have a broadband connection, with the figure likely to be even higher in the UK.
Dial-up's twilight years
It has been a remarkable period of growth for high-speed net access. In January 2001, when the ONS began compiling net data, broadband accounted for less than one percent of connections.
By contrast dial-up connections have been in decline for the last three years.
Broadband is increasingly becoming an attractive proposition, with many internet service providers upgrading their customers to faster speeds of 1Mbps (megabits per second) and 2Mbps for no extra cost.
Most recently, there has been a flurry of super-fast (8Mbps) services becoming available.
Jupiter Research predicts that by 2010, 80% of online households in Europe will have a broadband connection, with the figure likely to be even higher in the UK.
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