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NTL has announced that it now has half a million residential broadband internet customers. The cable company launched the new 1-Megabit service earlier this year, claiming that a combination of a powerful cable modem and NTL’s fibre optic network make the service twenty times faster than a normal dial-up internet connection. Commenting on the success… Continue reading NTL Reaches Half A Million Broadband Users

Internet usage has continued its inexorable rise in most countries and across the world, the web is increasingly regarded as an essential tool in everyday life. These are the findings of a new report by the global market research company Ipsos-Reid. For The Face of the Web 2002, citizens in twelve different countries were interviewed… Continue reading Internet Joins The Mainstream Media

With the proliferation of next generation networks and the wider availability of faster and smarter devices, it is estimated that the North American mobile internet access market will be worth $2.7 billion this year. Technology researchers at Frost and Sullivan believe that the mobile data industry will undergo rapid growth in the next few years… Continue reading Mobile Internet Revenues Set To Surge

The number of digital subscriber lines (DSL) worldwide increased by almost 20% to 30 million in the third quarter of 2002, according to a new report from Point Topic. Research carried out in the first half of the year found that there were 25 million DSL lines across the globe (see Global DSL Growth Hits… Continue reading Global DSL Lines Top 30 Million

Although dial-up connections are still in the majority, broadband users in the US surf the web more intensively and are responsible for almost half of all the pages viewed, according to new research. comScore Media Metrix found that 46 million of the country’s 142.7 million internet users in October 2002 connected to the web via… Continue reading Broadband Users More Active Online, Says comScore

New research from the Online Publishers Association has revealed that users of branded media websites are more likely to read, watch or listen to those same media brands offline. A recent OPA survey found that 56% of online media users were inclined to use the offline component of a brand. It also revealed that 66%… Continue reading Online Media Users Consume The Same Brand Offline

The number of worldwide internet users will top 665 million by the end of this year, an increase of 22% on the 2001 figure, according to a new report from eTForecasts. The research firm estimates that 121 million new users have come online in 2002 and the global internet population is predicted to exceed 1… Continue reading Global Online Population Increases By A Fifth

By the end of this year, over 50 million Europeans will be banking online and this number is set to increase gradually in the next five years, according to a new report from Jupiter Research. The Online Financial Services Forecast 2001-2007 examined activity in seventeen European countries and found that almost 40% of the total… Continue reading Mounting Interest In Online Banking, Says Jupiter

An official report from the telecoms regulator, Oftel has revealed that UK consumers are taking up broadband services at a faster rate than users in key markets such as France, Germany, Sweden and the United States. According to the International Benchmarking Study Of Internet Access, UK broadband connections have now reached 28,000 a week as… Continue reading UK Gaining Ground In Broadband Arena

There are now more than 18 million residential broadband subscribers in North America, according to new figures from research firm Kinetic Strategies. It is estimated that 1.9 million new subscribers were added in the third quarter to take the total to 18.08 million. Of these, 15 million are based in the US where broadband internet… Continue reading North American Broadband Population Set To Top 20 Million