Digital-Lifestyles

Microsoft announce their intention to be involved with d-cinema.

Is there no stopping South Korea? A number of companies have now announced the roll-out of wireless services up to 11Mbps. Prices of the service vary with provider but current subscribers to Korea Telecom broadband service pay an extra just under £20 uk pound per month. KT aim to have 10,000 sites functioning by the end of the year.

Can it be true? Rumors that BT will slash the cost of broadband, possibly up to 50% off the wholesale price. Its chairman is going to dragged over the coals in front of a committee of MPs this week and the new CEO is to announce the third-quarter results on Thursday. If it’s true, it would be a great entrance for the CEO.

Once again, it’s encouraging to see how much ambition South Korea have as they announced their intention to keep themselves at the forefront on Internet connections by upgrading to fibre they hope to get 1Gb connections. They intent to invest 50m UKP of government money, matched by the same from private companies, over a five year period. It’s interesting to see they predict the value of exports this will bring at over $5bn by 2006.

As of the end of January this year there are now more ADSL than CATV Internet subscribers in Japan.

Business in Northern Ireland are being offered up to £1,500 subsidy to install a satellite-delivered broadband. On the surface it looks like a great offer.

LLU arrives in Edinburgh.

Delta V are using a digital TV via a standard UHF / VHF antenna to receive up to 256k of Internet data with the user makes their request via a dial-up connection. The site is a bit light on technical detail, so it’s not clear how this service would scale to lots of user and still give them 256k download.