E-Minister Touts Broadband Progress
Posted: 02nd May, 2003 By: MarkJ
While admitting that UK broadband got off to the slow start, the governments e-commerce minister, Stephen Timms, has now praised the recent and "rapid" improvements:
Timms confessed that in 1987, when working in the IT industry, he had written an article predicting there would be 600,000 broadband connections in the UK by 2000. "In fact it took longer than that: 600,000 was reached by the time of my appointment to my present position a year ago this month," he admitted.
"From 1987 it took until last October to reach one million broadband connections, but it will have taken only nine months to add the second million, which I expect us to achieve in the course of this month.
Today there are more than 1.9 million connections - one million via cable modems and 900,000 via ADSL - and the number is increasing by well over 30,000 a week, which is one of the fastest rates of growth anywhere."
Unfortunately Mr Timms appears to have missed Oftels recent redefinition, which means that there aren't one million broadband connections via cable, at least not yet. More @ CW360.
Timms confessed that in 1987, when working in the IT industry, he had written an article predicting there would be 600,000 broadband connections in the UK by 2000. "In fact it took longer than that: 600,000 was reached by the time of my appointment to my present position a year ago this month," he admitted.
"From 1987 it took until last October to reach one million broadband connections, but it will have taken only nine months to add the second million, which I expect us to achieve in the course of this month.
Today there are more than 1.9 million connections - one million via cable modems and 900,000 via ADSL - and the number is increasing by well over 30,000 a week, which is one of the fastest rates of growth anywhere."
Unfortunately Mr Timms appears to have missed Oftels recent redefinition, which means that there aren't one million broadband connections via cable, at least not yet. More @ CW360.
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