RE: "Mid-Band" - Hope for rural Home Automators!

["James Winspear" <james.winspear@xxxxxxx>]

"Mr Danon finished by saying: "We recognise that the benefits of
the new
communications revolution are too great to leave people behind, but
that
there are technological limits to providing affordable broadband for
all. So
today we are also announcing a new alternative high speed internet
access
product for those who would not be able to get broadband. Our new
"midband"
product will begin trials in the Spring. It will provide an
"always-on"
email facility with fast internet access at up to 128K when needed and
will
be available quickly to 97 per cent of the UK population."


Strangely, the BT ADSL solution originated out of the BT
"Midband" group
which subsequently got renamed to Broadband - it was Midband because it
wasn't Wideband (much more interesting if they delivered 155MB/s to the
home!)  There's always been an obvious need to cost-effectively fill
the
gap between dial-up, ISDN and then ADSL at 512k and upwards, so
hopefully this product will fit that market (and hopefully REACH me)

$0.02 worth

James



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