[UK-Bug] News .. When is broadband not broadband ?

When is broadband not broadband ?

.... when its, and we quote "broadband-enabled" and not "broadband", as
a UK describes its new 60Kbps service.

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Andy Jenkins
UK Broadband Usergroup : http://www.uk-bug.net

"Andy Jenkins" <andy_nfTORIES@btopenworld..com> wrote @4ax.com...


> When is broadband not broadband ?

When NTL offer a 150k service and claim it is broadband

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> "Andy Jenkins" <andy_nfTORIES@btopenworld..com> wrote @4ax.com...
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> When NTL offer a 150k service and claim it is broadband
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They can offer a 5k service. Provided it uses multiple channels on
different frequencies then it's broadband.

Are you talking about true broadband or the media's bastardized
perception of it?
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When your with Tiscali, most of the time its slower than dialup. They don't
answer e-mails and can't progress a fault unless your in front of your PC to
do silly checks. Contension I say to all of you. 5000 to 1 more like it.

Peter.

"Informer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Andy Jenkins" <andy_nfTORIES@btopenworld..com> wrote @4ax.com...
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> When NTL offer a 150k service and claim it is broadband
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In uk.media.broadband Mugwump <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> In article <404b8143$0$22386$(E-Mail Removed)>,
> Informer said......
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>> "Andy Jenkins" <andy_nfTORIES@btopenworld..com> wrote @4ax.com...
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>> > When is broadband not broadband ?
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>> When NTL offer a 150k service and claim it is broadband
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> They can offer a 5k service. Provided it uses multiple channels on
> different frequencies then it's broadband.

So a number of conventional analog modems that use exactly similar
schemes but at around a thousandth of the frequency are broadband?

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 20:13:08 -0000, Mugwump <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>In article <404b8143$0$22386$(E-Mail Removed)>,
>Informer said......
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>> "Andy Jenkins" <andy_nfTORIES@btopenworld..com> wrote @4ax.com...
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>> > When is broadband not broadband ?
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>> When NTL offer a 150k service and claim it is broadband
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>Are you talking about true broadband or the media's bastardized
>perception of it?

The latter.

Its clear that adoption of a technology such as broadband, has to use
a title that clearly has the most easily and recognisable tag, with
the highest chance of penetrating into the consumers mind - and being
synonymous with what its intended to represent. Hence, as 512Kbps
services were intiially the first services to become broadly
available, 512Kbps became the defacto speed to which all connections
would be classified if they are "broadband" or not. Its all to common
for something to be label technically incorrectly, but for it to stick
as its easier for all.

OT, but if we decided _not_ to, as consumers to call what we now
accept as 'broadband', what do you think we'd call it ?

What would => 512Kbps services be called ?
What would =< 512Kbps services be called ?
Would there be an other title, over say 10Mbps ?
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Andy Jenkins
UK Broadband Usergroup : http://www.uk-bug.net

On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 22:10:44 +0000, Andy Jenkins
<andy_nfTORIES@btopenworld..com> wrote:

>What would => 512Kbps services be called ?

Broadband

>What would =< 512Kbps services be called ?

Wasteband

>Would there be an other title, over say 10Mbps ?

BigFatBastardBand

Hope this help.

Paul.

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> Would there be an other title, over say 10Mbps ?

'fast' broadband, or as i like to call it, uberband